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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

things were going swimmingly for the Bar-Kays. While they were still finishing high school, their first single, “Soul Finger,” made it onto the Billboard Hot 100. Even better, Otis Redding ...