Billy Lee Riley, the Sun Records rockabilly artist best known for the classics
Flying Saucers Rock and Roll and
Red Hot has died at age 75.
Riley included 3 Dylan instrumentals on his 1966 album
Funk Harmonica!:
Like A Rolling Stone,
Blowin' In The Wind and
Mr. Tambourine Man. In recent years he guested on two albums by Doug Spartz, playing - and singing! - on 2 more Dylan covers:
Love Minus Zero/No Limit (2006) and
Ring Them Bells (2007).
Funk Harmonica! is available as a "CD-R on demand" from
amazon.com