Tributes continue to pour in from across the globe following the death of legendary guitarist, songwriter and producer Steve ...

After a career keeping the beat for funk band the Bar-Kays, Columbus drummer Michael Beard died Aug. 25. He was 69 years old. When Beard was a young man, he was recruited by the Bar-Kays while ...

On Dec. 10, 1967, the private plane carrying soul singer Otis Redding and five members of the Bar-Kays band who backed him up crashed while attempting to land near Madison, Wisconsin. The plane went ...

*Say it ain’t so, Larry Dodson! Say it ain’t so! After 47 years as lead vocalist of the iconic funk, soul and R&B group, “The Bar-Kays,” is Larry Dodson really retiring? “It’s true,” said Dodson, in ...

James Alexander, the last surviving member of The Bar-Kays band that backed soul music star Otis Redding, will have a street renamed after him in his hometown of Memphis, Tennessee, Stax Museum said.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Stax Museum says a ...

Saturday saw the return of a long running, Jefferson County musical tradition. The family-style Pine Bluff/Altheimer Blues Festival was begun in the late 1980s by local legend Sam Cook, a well-known ...

SATURDAY 2/18. East Arkansas Community College, Forrest City. 7:30 p.m. $44. In 1967, things were going swimmingly for the Bar-Kays. While they were still finishing high school, their first single, ...

Stafford Avenue in Memphis is scheduled to get a new name on April 24: James E. Alexander Avenue James Alexander, the last surviving member of The Bar-Kays band that backed soul music star Otis ...