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 husband and longtime partner in music , Jon Tiven, announced.

Working mainly in the blues and soul genres, Tiven played guitar on records by King (“All You Ever Give Me Is the Blues”) and bass guitar on Pickett’s 1999 album It’s Harder Now , Don Covay’s 2000 album Adlib and Sir Mack Rice’s 2001 album This What I Do , participating in the writing of those records as well.

Sally Tiven, a musician and songwriter who played on albums by B.B. King and Wilson Pickett and had her songs

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