R&B guitarist Phelps "Catfish" Collins, a veteran of James Brown's J.B.'s, Parliament-Funkadelic and his younger brother William "Bootsy" Collins' Rubber Band, died of cancer last Friday at his home ...
Songwriter-guitarist Marv Tarplin, who contributed to major hits by the Miracles, Smokey Robinson and Marvin Gaye, died Sept. 30 of unknown causes in Las Vegas. He was 70. Born in Atlanta, Tarplin ...
NEW ORLEANS — Earl King, the songwriter and guitarist responsible for some of the most enduring and idiosyncratic compositions in R&B;, has died. He was 69. King died Thursday from complications ...