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It would be easy to remember Isaac Hayes, who was scheduled to perform at this year’s Sunset Junction, as the voice of Chef on Comedy Central’s South Park. But the man behind “Chocolate Salty Balls” was also a genuine musical genius and icon. He changed the game with his second album, Hot Buttered Soul (1969), but it was “Theme from Shaft,” his orchestral piece for the 1971 blaxploitation classic of the same name, that forever cemented his legend. Sam Moore (the man B.B. King called “the Frank Sinatra of soul music”) will fill the Saturday 9:30 p.m. slot on the Hoover Stage originally slated for Hayes, and his special tribute to the Grammy and Oscar winner promises to be a fitting celebration of one seriously bad mother.
