DO YOUR THING by ISAAC HAYES

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.