The Bar-Kays News

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Initially a funky instrumental soul combo on Stax/Volt, the Bar-Kays were nearly destroyed when most of the band perished in the same plane crash that claimed Otis Redding.

It's just about that time of year - the candy apples are in bloom, the funnel cakes have just enough grease and the steers heading to auction are counting their last few days.

Pain, center, performs at the 9th Annual BET Awards on Sunday, June 28, 2009, in Los Angeles.

A wee bit of normally has returned to the Stoop. I needed a musical infusion. Digging in the Groove Yard turned up something old and something new.

Initially a funky instrumental soul combo on Stax/Volt, the Bar-Kays were nearly destroyed when most of the band perished in the same plane crash that claimed Otis Redding.

The sound of Motown is coming to Mobile for BayFest. As we told you first on News 5 This Morning, The Commodores will perform at next month's music festival in downtown.

BayFest organizers planned to announce today that they have bolstered the festival's lineup of classic R&B with a trio of acts topped by the Commodores.

The funk was fortified Friday night at the Fort Worth Musicfest with headlining bands Zapp and Bar-Kays closing out the first day of the three-day event.

Summertime---------------------------------Porgy and Bess Message From A Black Man-------------The Temptations Papa Was A Rolling Stone--------------The Temptations Like The Girls----------------------------The Fatback Band Watching You--------------------------Slave Freakazoid-------------------------------Midnight Starr ...

Summertime---------------------------------Porgy and Bess Message From A Black Man-------------The Temptations Papa Was A Rolling Stone--------------The Temptations Like The Girls----------------------------The Fatback Band Watching You--------------------------Slave Freakazoid-------------------------------Midnight Starr ...

Summertime---------------------------------Porgy and Bess Message From A Black Man-------------The Temptations Papa Was A Rolling Stone--------------The Temptations Like The Girls----------------------------The Fatback Band Watching You--------------------------Slave Freakazoid-------------------------------Midnight Starr ...

Summertime---------------------------------Porgy and Bess Message From A Black Man-------------The Temptations Papa Was A Rolling Stone--------------The Temptations Like The Girls----------------------------The Fatback Band Watching You--------------------------Slave Freakazoid-------------------------------Midnight Starr ...

The Renaissance Cultural Center presents the Third Annual Fort Worth MusicFest, Aug.

The Fort Worth Renaissance Cultural Center will host the third annual Fort Worth MusicFest Aug.

So there's this three-day music festival of sorts happening next month in Forth Worth called, fittingly, the Fort Worth MusicFest .

The Memphis Music Foundation, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to helping Memphis music find business success, elected music icon Al Bell as its new chairman this week.

Expect to feel funk-deficient at summer's end? George Clinton and friends will have the remedy.

No less an authority than Professor George Clinton gave voice to a hopeful nation when he declared, "We want the funk/We GOTTA have that funk." Clinton's demands have been answered five-fold as an all-star revue of '70s funk veterans descends on St.

One of the best and most grandiose soul albums ever recorded, Hot Buttered Soul made Isaac Hayes a superstar and changed the face of black pop music for the next decade.