There's a special vibe about funk. It's often not considered as virtuosic as rock, as emotive as blues or as intimate as folk. Rather, its selling point is all about the groove. Core to this is the ...

Joe Messina, one of the original guitarists for Motown Records' in-house backing band the Funk Brothers, died on Monday at the age of 93. Born on Dec. 13, 1928, in Detroit, Messina began playing ...

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Phelps “Catfish” Collins, a defining guitarist of ’70s funk via his work behind James Brown and in Parliament-Funkadelic, died Aug. 6 in Cincinnati of cancer. He was 66. Collins’ death follows by less ...

Joe Messina, the original guitarist for legendary Motown Records studio band the Funk Brothers, has died. Billboard reports that Messina died yesterday in Detroit after a 12-year battle with kidney ...

Joe Messina, the prolific guitarist whose work with the Funk Brothers can be heard on an array of Motown classics, died Monday, April 4, the Detroit Free Press reports. He was 93. Messina died at his ...