Twangin...

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Twangin...
Twangin Dave Edmunds album cover.jpg
Studio album by
Dave Edmunds
Released20 April 1981 (1981-04-20)
Studio Eden Studios, London
Rockfield Studios, Wales
Genre Rock
Length30:27
Label Swan Song
Producer Dave Edmunds
Dave Edmunds chronology
Repeat When Necessary
(1979)		Twangin...
(1981)		 D.E. 7th
(1982)
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Robert Christgau B [2]
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Twangin... is a 1981 album by Dave Edmunds, and his final recording for Swan Song Records before moving to Columbia Records. [4] The album would also be the last Edmunds solo effort to feature Rockpile. [5]

Contents

Twangin... consists mostly of outtakes from previous recording sessions, including one track dating to 1968, a version of "Baby Let's Play House", a rockabilly number made famous by Elvis Presley. The album also features a collaboration with the Stray Cats, whose debut album Edmunds produced.

The album is almost entirely made up of cover songs, including the Wilson Pickett B-side "Three Time Loser" and the George Jones classic "The Race Is On" (with the Stray Cats).

The album art, featuring a portrait of Edmunds, is by Barney Bubbles.

Track listing

Side one

  1. "Something Happens" (John Hiatt) - 3:13
  2. "It's Been So Long" (Ian Gomm) - 2:14
  3. "Singin' the Blues" (Melvin Endsley) - 2:58
  4. "(I'm Gonna Start) Living Again If It Kills Me" (Nick Lowe, Carlene Carter, Edmunds) - 3:20
  5. "Almost Saturday Night" (John Fogerty) - 2:10

Side two

  1. "Cheap Talk, Patter and Jive" (Hank DeVito, Donivan Cowart) - 3:05
  2. "Three Time Loser" (Don Covay, Ron Miller) - 2:43
  3. "You'll Never Get Me Up (In One of Those)" (Mickey Jupp) - 3:46
  4. "I'm Only Human" (Lowe, Rockpile) - 2:07
  5. "The Race Is On" (feat. Stray Cats)(Don Rollins) - 2:04
  6. "Baby Let's Play House" (Arthur Gunter) - 2:18

Personnel

References

  1. ↑ "Twangin' - Dave Edmunds | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic". AllMusic .
  2. ↑ "Robert Christgau: Album: Dave Edmunds: Twangin". www.robertchristgau.com.
  3. ↑ "[The New] Rolling Stone Album Guide: Dave Edmunds". tomhull.com.
  4. ↑ "Dave Edmunds".
  5. ↑ Poore, Billy (5 July 1998). Rockabilly: A Forty-year Journey. Hal Leonard Corporation. ISBN   9780793591428 – via Google Books.
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