Bar-Kays

Whilst on tour in '67, a plane crash took the lives of Redding and most of The Bar-Kays.

Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin: Dog Ears Music: Volume 163 Phil Ramone 2011

Crash survivor Ben Cauley (trumpet), along with James Alexander (bass), who fortuitously missed the doomed flight, went on to refresh The Bar-Kays.

Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin: Dog Ears Music: Volume 163 Phil Ramone 2011

Those styles look outlandish with the passage of time, but seriously, when you listen to music by bands such as Parliament-Funkadelic, the Bar-Kays or the Ohio Players, what other clothing could possibly fit those sounds?

Nightlife agenda David Malitz 2010

Funk is the Bar-Kays getting their serious groove on.

Clubs picks of the week 2011

Funk-soul outfit The Bar-Kays were born in Memphis in the mid-'60s.

Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin: Dog Ears Music: Volume 163 Phil Ramone 2011

The result is a spring-loaded funk band that has all of the trampoline punch of its Memphis forebears—Booker T. & the MGs, the Mar-Keys, the Bar-Kays and Pac-Keys.

Mining the Memphis Sound Marc Myers 2011

Thanks largely to Ms. Parker, the academy also maintains close mentoring relationships with former Stax stars such as Mr. Floyd, Al Bell, William Bell, the Bar-Kays, and Booker T. & the M.G.s.

Stax's Legacy Is Reborn After School Marc Myers 2011

The result is a spring-loaded funk band that has all of the trampoline punch of its Memphis forebears—Booker T. & the MGs, the Mar-Keys, the Bar-Kays and Pac-Keys.

Mining the Memphis Sound Marc Myers 2011

The film also sits just before hip-hop arrived and self-documented much of the city around it; a street party is soundtracked by Chic's Everybody Dance and the Bar-Kays' Let's Have Some Fun, along with some embryonic MCing.

80 Blocks From Tiffany's is a million miles from today's gang life Justin Quirke 2010

GROSS: And on that same plane were several members of the Bar-Kays, a band that also recorded on Stax.

Booker T. Jones: Onions, Potatoes, Other Essentials 2009