Billy Lee Riley, a rambunctious performer who helped develop the Sun Records sound as a studio musician for other headliners, died Sunday in Jonesboro, Ark. He was 75. Riley’s singles included “Red ...
While AmericanaFest is celebrating Arkansas musicians in Nashville, another Tennessee outfit will honor a Natural State music legend. Billy Lee Riley, whose Sun Records tracks from 1957, "Red Hot" and ...
Billy Lee Riley dies at 75; rockabilly pioneer did 'Flyin' Saucers Rock and Roll' The raucous performer and songwriter recorded for Sun Records for four years and later worked as a studio musician in ...
One of the last surviving figures from the golden age of Memphis’ Sun Records, drummer J.M. "Jimmy" Van Eaton, has died. Van Eaton — who came to Sun as a teenager in the mid-1950s and made his ...
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — J.M. “Jimmy” Van Eaton, a pioneering rock ‘n’ roll drummer who played behind the likes of Jerry Lee Lewis and Billy Lee Riley at Sun Records in Memphis, Tennessee, died Friday at ...
J.M. "Jimmy" Van Eaton, a pioneering rock ‘n’ roll drummer who played behind the likes of Jerry Lee Lewis and Billy Lee Riley at Sun Records in Memphis, Tennessee, died Friday at age 86, a family ...
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