Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. ELKHART — This year’s Leroy Robinson Southern Soul & Soul Music Festival at The Lerner Theatre, Aug. 10-17, features two iconic ...

*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 ...

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When Larry Dodson got a phone call inviting him to join The Bar-Kays, he hesitated. For one thing, he told The Daily Times this week, he had a decent gig with Memphis doo-wop outfit The Temprees. For ...

The Columbus funk musician died Aug. 25. He was remembered by his community at a celebration of life on Sept. 2.

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.