Although Motown dealt predominantly in funk and soul, they had a flirt with rock and roll during the late 1960s, in the form of etroit outfit Rare Earth.

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 ...

The Funk Brothers step out of the shadows and into the open Friday night at Chateau Ste. Michelle. The R&B and soul group -- members of the legendary studio band at Motown Records in the label's ...

Eddie Willis at a ceremony in 2013 for The Funk Brothers to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Credit: Angela George, Wikimedia Creative Commons Eddie “Chank” Willis, one of the original ...

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Pledging "there ain't no party like a Funk Brothers party," the former Motown studio band turned the lawn at Chateau Ste. Michelle into a giant dance floor. The veteran band that backed so many famous ...

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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 “For Once in ...

Joe Messina, a jazz guitarist whose work with the Funk Brothers helped build the bedrock of the Motown sound, died Monday in Northville. He was 93. Messina, a longtime Warren resident, died at 4 a.m.