Reviews that would have made Smokey Robinson or Marvin Gaye blush didn't provide much help for "Standing in the Shadows of Motown," the belated but loving homage to the Funk Brothers, the aggregate ...

Calling the Funk Brothers merely the house band for the Motown Sound is a little like calling the Rat Pack a Vegas lounge act. During the heyday of the Berry Gordy's Motown Records, when the company's ...

Host Larry Mantle discusses the new documentary about the Funk Brothers, the musicians who created the Motown sound behind the most famous songs of the time. Joining Larry is the director and producer ...

Using interviews, archival footage and anecdote re-enactments, director Paul Justman pays an overdue tribute to the Funk Brothers, the studio musicians who created the Motown sound. Most of the ...

THE LOWDOWN: A documentary paying tribute to the Funk Brothers, the unsung studio musicians responsible for the biggest hits of Motown's golden era. "Deputy Dawg could've sung on (those songs), and ...

"STANDING IN the Shadows of Motown" is about the greatest hit machine in the history of pop. That was Berry Gordy's Hitsville USA, which gave us "Stop! In the Name of Love," "My Girl" and "I Heard It ...

Allan Slutsky’s book Standing in the Shadows of Motown profiled bassist James Jamerson, whose dexterous and innovative playing was integral to the Motown sound but who, four months before his death ...

Pick a Motown classic from the ’60s, any Motown classic from the ’60s, and chances are that guys like “Pistol” Allen, “Bongo” Brown, and James Jamerson played on it. Whether it was Marvin, Martha, or ...