Have 'Twangy' Guitar Will Travel | ||||
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Released | January 9, 1958 | |||
Recorded | 1957 | |||
Studio | Audio Recorders, Phoenix, Arizona | |||
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Length | 33:47 | |||
Label | Jamie | |||
Producer | Lee Hazlewood, Lester Sill | |||
Duane Eddy chronology | ||||
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Singles from Have 'Twangy' Guitar Will Travel | ||||
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [1] |
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [2] |
The Rolling Stone Album Guide | [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.
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".
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.
MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide called the album "one of the keystones of modern rock guitar." [7]
All songs written by Duane Eddy and Lee Hazlewood unless noted.
Year | Title | U.S. Billboard 200 [8] | UK Albums Chart [9] !!Label and catalogue | |
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1958 | Have 'Twangy' Guitar Will Travel | 5 | 6 | Jamie JLPS-3000 |
Year | Titles Both sides from that album except where indicated | Chart positions | ||
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Billboard [10] | Cashbox | UK [11] | ||
1958 | "Moovin' N' Groovin' " b/w "Up and Down" (From $1,000,000 Worth of Twang, Volume II) | 72 | 54 | - |
"Rebel Rouser" b/w "Stalkin'" | 6 | 7 | 19 | |
"Ramrod" b/w "The Walker" (Non-LP track) | 27 | 33 | - | |
"Cannonball" b/w "Mason Dixon Lion" (Non-LP track) | 15 | 16 | 22 | |
1959 | "The Lonely One" b/w "Detour" | 23 | 19 | - |
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