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\n\tSally Tiven, a musician and songwriter who played on albums by B.B. King and Wilson Pickett and had her songs recorded by the likes of Huey Lewis & the News, Buddy Guy and The Jeff Healey Band, has died. She was 68.<\/p>\n
\n\tTiven died July 23 in Nashville of complications from hip replacement surgery, her husband and longtime partner in music, Jon Tiven, announced.<\/p>\n
\n\tWorking mainly in the blues and soul genres, Tiven played guitar on records by King (\u201cAll You Ever Give Me Is the Blues\u201d) and bass guitar on Pickett\u2019s 1999 album It\u2019s Harder Now<\/em>, Don Covay\u2019s 2000 album Adlib<\/em> and Sir Mack Rice\u2019s 2001 album This What I Do<\/em>, participating in the writing of those records as well.<\/p>\n \n\tHuey Lewis & the News, Guy and The Jeff Healey Band recorded her songs \u201cHe Don\u2019t Know,\u201d \u201cHeavy Love\u201d and \u201cRiver of No Return,\u201d respectively. Shemekia Copeland (\u201cMarried to the Blues,\u201d \u201cBig Lovin Woman,\u201d \u201cHas Anybody Seen My Man\u201d), Irma Thomas (\u201cTryin to Catch a Cab in the Rain\u201d) and Ian Moss (\u201cMr. Rain\u201d) recorded her tunes as well.<\/p>\n \n\tWatch her play with Covay and Ronnie Wood in 1993 here. Her husband describes it as \u201cone of the greatest nights of her life.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tBorn on March 5, 1957, in Port Chester, New York, Tiven grew up in nearby Rye, New York, where she attended public schools and then spent a year apiece at Stanford University and New York University.<\/p>\n \n\tShe met husband-to-be Tiven in New York in 1977 and joined his group The Yankees, and they married in 1979. They would work together in groups backing such artists as Stephen Kalinich, P.F. Sloan, Ellis Hooks, Syl Johnson, Bettye Harris, Billie Ray Martin, Al Franken, Marty Brown, Howard Tate, Garnet Mimms, Willie Jones, Bebe Buell, Creed Bratton, Troy Turner and Little Milton.<\/p>\n \n\tAfter she gave birth in 1991 to her daughter, Jacqueline Lucile, she became involved as a school volunteer reading to children. And when the family moved to Nashville in 2002, she immersed herself in the Nashville Adult Literacy Program, teaching those unfamiliar with English how to write and speak it.<\/p>\n \n\tIn addition to her husband and daughter, survivors include her sisters, Robin, Tracy and Susan; her nephew, Nick; and her niece, Robin.<\/p>\n \n\tA celebration of life memorial, featuring musical performances of her songs by some of her favorite collaborators, is set for 5:30 p.m. on Sept. 16 at Belmont United Methodist Church in Nashville. Donations in her memory can be made to the Belmont United Methodist Church of Nashville ESL Program (please write Sally Tiven ESL\/English as a Second Language in the memo line).<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cShe was\/is a truly wonderful human being \u2026 so loving, caring and giving. She is truly loved,\u201d Rolling Stones drummer Steve Jordan said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sally Tiven, a musician and songwriter who played on albums by B.B. King and Wilson Pickett and had her songs recorded by the likes of Huey Lewis & the News, Buddy Guy and The Jeff Healey Band, has died. She was 68. Tiven died July 23 in Nashville of complications from hip replacement surgery, her<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13123,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[6813,6815,4995,6814],"class_list":{"0":"post-13122","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-blues","9":"tag-guitarist","10":"tag-songwriter","11":"tag-soul"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}