James Alexander, founding bassist of the legendary R&B and funk band The Bar-Kays, will record new music next week at the ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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 ...

*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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Memphis soul band The Bar-Kays will be honored with the 2023 AutoZone Liberty Bowl Outstanding Achievement Award and will star in the "halftime spectacular" of the game on Dec. 29, it was announced ...

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.