Have 'Twangy' Guitar Will Travel

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Have 'Twangy' Guitar Will Travel
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Studio album by
ReleasedJanuary 9, 1958
Recorded1957
StudioAudio Recorders, Phoenix, Arizona
Genre
Length33:47
Label Jamie
Producer Lee Hazlewood, Lester Sill
Duane Eddy chronology
Have 'Twangy' Guitar Will Travel
(1958)
Especially for You
(1959)
Singles from Have 'Twangy' Guitar Will Travel
  1. "Moovin' N' Groovin"
    Released: 1958
  2. "Rebel-'Rouser"
    Released: May 1958
  3. "Ramrod"
    Released: August 1958
  4. "Cannonball"
    Released: October 1958
  5. "The Lonely One"
    Released: 1959
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [1]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [2]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide Star full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [3]

Have 'Twangy' Guitar Will Travel is the debut album by the guitarist Duane Eddy. [4] [5] It was released in 1958 on Jamie Records, as JLP-3000. [6] There were five charting singles and a B-side of an additional charting single taken from this album.

Contents

Jamie Records released the album again in 1999 on compact disc, as Jamie 4007-2, with three bonus tracks. The bonus tracks are, in order, "Up and Down", "The Walker" and "Mason Dixon Lion".

Background

After releasing a couple of successful singles, Eddy released his first album, Have 'Twangy' Guitar Will Travel on January 9, 1958. It is a mix of early rock & roll, swing, country and blues, and contains several covers as well as original compositions. He and the band known as The Rebels — Al Casey on rhythm guitar, his wife Corki Casey also on rhythm guitar, Steve Douglas on saxophone, Buddy Wheeler on bass guitar, Mike Bermani and Bob Taylor on drums — who along with several guest musicians were joined by The Sharps (later known as The Rivingtons), who contributed non-lyrical vocals, whoops and hollers. The album spent 82 weeks on the Billboard charts during 1959-1960, reaching a high of #5. Five singles released both before and after the album was released, charted in the Billboard Hot 100. Eddy would go on to release nine more charting albums and 26 more charting singles in the next five years.

Critical reception

MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide called the album "one of the keystones of modern rock guitar." [7]

Track listing

All songs written by Duane Eddy and Lee Hazlewood unless noted.

  1. "Lonesome Road" (Gene Austin, Nathaniel Shilkret) — 3:09
  2. "I Almost Lost My Mind" (Ivory Joe Hunter) — 2:18
  3. "Rebel Rouser" — 2:23
  4. "Three-30-Blues" - 3:33
  5. "Cannonball" — 1:55
  6. "The Lonely One" — 1:42
  7. "Detour" (Paul Westmoreland) — 2:12
  8. "Stalkin'" — 2:27
  9. "Ramrod" (Al Casey) — 1:42
  10. "Anytime" (Herbert "Happy" Lawson) — 2:19
  11. "Moovin' 'N' Groovin'" — 2:05
  12. "Loving You" (Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller) — 2:10

Personnel

The Rebels

Guest musicians

Technical

Chart positions

YearTitleU.S. Billboard 200 [8] UK Albums Chart [9] !!Label and catalogue
1958Have 'Twangy' Guitar Will Travel56Jamie JLPS-3000

Singles

YearTitles
Both sides from that album except where indicated
Chart positions
Billboard [10] Cashbox UK [11]
1958"Moovin' N' Groovin' "
b/w "Up and Down" (From $1,000,000 Worth of Twang, Volume II)
7254-
"Rebel Rouser"
b/w "Stalkin'"
6719
"Ramrod"
b/w "The Walker" (Non-LP track)
2733-
"Cannonball"
b/w "Mason Dixon Lion" (Non-LP track)
151622
1959"The Lonely One"
b/w "Detour"
2319-

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