Bar-Kays’ James Alexander to be honored with Memphis Street renaming

The ceremony will take place on April 24 in Alexander’s Memphis neighborhood of Soulsville US
James Alexander, the sole surviving member and co-founder of funk pioneers the Bar-Kays, is to be be honored with the renaming of the Memphis street on which he was born, Stafford Avenue, as James E. Alexander Avenue.

The ceremony will take place on April 24 in his Memphis neighborhood of Soulsville USA, where Alexander’s childhood home was at 898 Stafford, one block from the former home of Stax Records on E. McLemore Ave, where the Stax Museum of American Soul Music stands today.