Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Detroit musician Kern Brantley, center, will lead the Bass Day festivities at the Motown Museum on Saturday. Perhaps nothing was ...

After James Jamerson laid down all those funky bass lines in Detroit, helping to create 56 No. 1 R&B hits and 23 No. 1 pop hits, making Motown into a cultural juggernaut, popular music never has been ...

James Jamerson, the innovative bassist behind many of Motown’s greatest hits, was named the greatest bassist of all time in a poll of more than 30 professional musicians conducted by the music ...

Perhaps nothing was more crucial to the Motown sound than the bass guitar — and it’ll be out in full force Saturday at Hitsville, U.S.A. The 11th annual Bass Day will take over the grounds of the ...