James Alexander is one of the original members of the Bar-Kays, “To travel with Otis Redding, to just be involved ... be remembered for the rich musical legacy they left behind.

Trumpeter Ben Cauley, a member of the Stax Records group the Bar-Kays and the only survivor of the 1967 plane crash that killed most of his bandmates and legendary singer Otis Redding, has died in ...

Otis Redding, 26 years old, a former well-driller from Macon, Georgia, died in a plane crash in an icy Wisconsin lake on December 10. With him were the five teen-age members of the Bar-Kays ...

The Legacy of Otis Redding’s Posthumous Hit ... be his biggest posthumous hit in 1967 while touring with the Bar-Kays. His fame had started to grow stateside, and countless fans were ...

Like, the story of the Bar-Kays is really unbelievable, right? Like, very sadly, most of your band had died in a plane crash, the plane crash that also killed Otis Redding, five years before this ...

Maybe the Bar-Kays ... that killed Otis Redding in Lake Monona. The tragedy continued when guitarist Marcus Price was murdered in Memphis in 1984. Still, this mostly Bar-Kays cover band seemed ...

It’s quite staggering to think that Otis Redding’s signature song ... as a matter of fact, after Redding and most of the Bar-Kays perished in a plane crash en route to a gig.