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The article profiles songwriter, producer, and keyboard player Isaac Hayes. It says that Hayes was one of the superstars in the music business with a pedigree as an accomplished studio session player. It states that he has an early association with Stax records in Memphis, Tennessee. Meanwhile, it mentions that Hayes dismisses the usual role of the blues piano in the music release "Born Under a Bad Sign," by Albert Collins in 1967.

An interview with Tennessee keyboardist Booker T. Jones is presented. When asked about his proudest musical moment, he cites the first time he heard "Green Onions" on a radio station in Memphis, Tennessee. He also reveals that the song was created when he and his bandmates arrived at the studio to back up an artist that did not show.

The article reports that more than ten years ago, Pixies mastermind Frank Black came up with an idea to record an album called Black on Blonde. As Bob Dylan did for Blonde on Blonde, his 1966 classic, Black planned to travel to Nashville, Tennessee, with a batch of fresh songs and lay them down at breakneck speed, backed by some of the greatest session musicians in town. Finally, in April 2004, just days before the Pixies mounted their monumental reunion tour, Black, 40, met in Music City with legends like Stax guitarist Steve Cropper, Muscle Shoals bassist David Hood and keyboardist Spooner Oldham.