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 ...

Genres including country, folk, funk, rock and Motown will get played at the second annual festival on Aug. 23.

Joe Messina was by all accounts, including his own, a soft-spoken guy who was happiest while playing his guitar. But as one of Motown ’s legendary Funk Brothers studio band, Messina spoke loudly ...

Osborne, featured in the Funk Brothers movie, "Standing in the Shadows of Motown," as well as the soundtrack, was a perfect complement to the group's classic sound.

Live Music Lineup: Post-Thanksgiving funk tunes, a Motown Christmas show and a tribute to Foreigner and Journey Hear all the hits from Foreigners Journey in Portland on Saturday.

The fire and fury of late Motown punk-funk legend Rick James will leap back to life this week when the brand-new stage musical “Super Freak: The Rick James Story” comes to Detroit.

It was here, after all, that Bootsy and his star-shaped Space Bass rocketed into the funk-soul universe, first with George Clinton’s Parliament-Funkadelic and later with his own Bootsy’s Rubber Band, ...

The Funk Brothers, those Detroit-based session musicians who provided their backing talents on most Motown recordings over a 13-year period, starting in 1959.

Joe Messina, a guitarist with the Motown session band known as the Funk Brothers whose largely anonymous work graced hit records such as Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going On,” Stevie Wonder’s ...