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isaac hayes - do your thing - now again - vinyl

New Copy

Genre: Funk / Soul

1. Do Your Thing (Part 1)
2. Do Your Thing (Part 2)
3. Do Your Thing (Rhythm Section Mix)

The full 33-minute, unreleased, psychedelic funk jam session by Memphis rhythm kingpins the Bar-Kays, mixed directly from the original tapes.

Contains bonus rhythm section instrumental and
booklet detailing the history of this never-before-heard version of one of Isaac Hayes� most
famous songs by Hayes historian Bill Dahl.
Hayes was already a cutting-edge funk master at Stax Records when he accepted the
unprecedented assignment of creating a soundtrack for the 1971 action flick Shaft. At a time
when R&B songs routinely timed out at three minutes and under, Hayes� albums for Stax�s
Enterprise imprint had been breaking new ground since 1969. His masterpiece Hot Buttered Soul
consisted of only four tracks, two songs on The Isaac Hayes Movement clocked in at a hair under
12 minutes, and one selection on his �To Be Continued stretched to 15:33.
But his epic �Do Your Thing,� one of the cornerstones of the two-LP Shaft soundtrack, outdid them all. Occupying nearly the entire last side of the set, it concluded after 19-and-a-half grooving minutes with the overdubbed sound of a needle scratching violently across a piece of vinyl. No one knew that jarring ending masked the existence of another 13 minutes of �Do Your Thing.�
Consigned to the vaults, those improvisatory extensions�somewhere in between free-jazz and
psychedelic rock�were seemingly destined never to be heard. Until now.