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 ...

*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 ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — For music fans, it was Ben Cauley’s unmistakable brassy sound and his twirling trumpet flare that put the soul into the Bar-Kays’ classic song “Soul Finger.” Larry Dodson is the lead ...

The Bar-Kays began their career in the mid-60s as the house band for Stax Records. They backed many of Stax artists most notably Otis Redding and Isaac Hayes. For more than 40 years The Bar-Kays have ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Dodson and founding member of The Bar-Kays, James Alexander, along with the ...

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 ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — 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, ...

The soul-funk band Bar-Kays is celebrating 50 years in music by donating proceeds from their performances this year to five charities. The band says it plans to give a portion of the proceeds raised ...

Memphis Music Hall of Famers the Bar-Kays have announced that singer Larry Dodson, Sr. will be retiring from the band at the end of 2017, after 47 years fronting the group. In a statement released by ...

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 ...