Followers of Grand Funk Railroad will be aware that Bruce Kulick – who joined in 2000, four years after being jettisoned from Kiss – vacated his post in January 2024. “I will forever cherish my time ...

There's a special vibe about funk. It's often not considered as virtuosic as rock, as emotive as blues or as intimate as folk. Rather, its selling point is all about the groove. Core to this is the ...

Joe Messina, one of the original guitarists for Motown Records' in-house backing band the Funk Brothers, died on Monday at the age of 93. Born on Dec. 13, 1928, in Detroit, Messina began playing ...

Joe Messina, a jazz guitarist whose work with the Funk Brothers helped build the bedrock of the Motown sound, died Monday in Northville. He was 93. Messina, a longtime Warren resident, died at 4 a.m.

Founding Grand Funk Railroad lead singer/guitarist Mark Farner hasn’t played in the group since the late 1990s, but in a new interview with Guitar World, he admitted that he’s still open to reuniting ...

Phelps “Catfish” Collins, a defining guitarist of ’70s funk via his work behind James Brown and in Parliament-Funkadelic, died Aug. 6 in Cincinnati of cancer. He was 66. Collins’ death follows by less ...

Joe Messina, the original guitarist for legendary Motown Records studio band the Funk Brothers, has died. Billboard reports that Messina died yesterday in Detroit after a 12-year battle with kidney ...

Joe Messina, the prolific guitarist whose work with the Funk Brothers can be heard on an array of Motown classics, died Monday, April 4, the Detroit Free Press reports. He was 93. Messina died at his ...

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Joe Messina, a guitarist with the Motown session band known as the Funk Brothers whose largely anonymous work graced hit records such as Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going On,” Stevie Wonder’s “For Once in ...