''Have 'Twangy' Guitar Will Travel'' is the debut

album An album is a collection of audio recordings (e.g., music) issued on a medium such as compact disc (CD), Phonograph record, vinyl (record), audio tape (like 8-track cartridge, 8-track or Cassette tape, cassette), or digital distribution, dig ...

by the guitarist

Duane Eddy Duane Eddy (April 26, 1938 – April 30, 2024) was an American guitarist. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, he had a string of hit records produced by Lee Hazlewood which were noted for their characteristically "twangy" guitar sound, including ...

. It was released in 1958 on

Jamie Records Jamie Records is a record label founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1956 by Harold Lipsius (1913–2007) and Allan Sussel (1924–2003). Their first 45rpm single, "It's Great to Fall in Love"/"Truly" by Marian Caruso, was issued in 1956. Th ...

, as JLP-3000. There were five charting singles and a

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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".

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

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), who contributed non-lyrical vocals, whoops and hollers. The album spent 82 weeks on the

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charts during 1959-1960, reaching a high of #5. Five singles released both before and after the album was released, charted in the

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. 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."

Track listing

All songs written by Duane Eddy and

Lee Hazlewood Barton Lee Hazlewood (July 9, 1929 – August 4, 2007) was an American country and pop singer, songwriter, and record producer, most widely known for his work with guitarist Duane Eddy during the late 1950s and singer Nancy Sinatra in the 1960s ...

unless noted. #" Lonesome Road" (

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Nathaniel Shilkret Nathaniel Shilkret (December 25, 1889 – February 18, 1982) was an American musician, composer, conductor and musical director. Early career Shilkret (originally named Natan Schüldkraut) was born in New York City, United States, to parents w ...

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Rebel Rouser "Rebel-'Rouser" is a rock and roll instrumental song written by Duane Eddy and Lee Hazlewood and originally released on Jamie Records in 1958 by "Duane Eddy and his 'twangy' guitar" as a single (Jamie 1104) with "Stalkin'" on its B-side. Both t ...

" — 2:23 #"Three-30-Blues" - 3:33 #"

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" — 1:55 #"The Lonely One" — 1:42 #"

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" ( Paul Westmoreland) — 2:12 #"Stalkin'" — 2:27 #"

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Anytime Anytime may refer to: * ''Anytime'' (Brian McKnight album), and the title song * ''Anytime'' (Eddy Arnold album), 1956 * ''Anytime'', originally ''Slim Whitman Sings'' (1962 album) * "Anytime" (1921 song), a popular song by Herbert "Happy" Laws ...

" (Herbert "Happy" Lawson) — 2:19 #"Moovin' 'N' Groovin'" — 2:05 #" Loving You" ( Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller) — 2:10

Personnel

The Rebels

*Duane Eddy –

guitar The guitar is a stringed musical instrument that is usually fretted (with Fretless guitar, some exceptions) and typically has six or Twelve-string guitar, twelve strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming ...

* Al Casey –

electric bass The bass guitar (), also known as the electric bass guitar, electric bass, or simply the bass, is the lowest-pitched member of the guitar family. It is similar in appearance and construction to an electric but with a longer neck and scale leng ...

piano A piano is a keyboard instrument that produces sound when its keys are depressed, activating an Action (music), action mechanism where hammers strike String (music), strings. Modern pianos have a row of 88 black and white keys, tuned to a c ...

, rhythm guitar * Steve Douglas –

saxophone The saxophone (often referred to colloquially as the sax) is a type of single-reed woodwind instrument with a conical body, usually made of brass. As with all single-reed instruments, sound is produced when a reed on a mouthpiece vibrates to p ...

*Corki Casey O'Dell – rhythm guitar *Buddy Wheeler – electric bass *Bob Taylor –

drums The drum is a member of the percussion instrument, percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel–Sachs classification system, it is a membranophones, membranophone. Drums consist of at least one Acoustic membrane, membrane, c ...

*Mike Bermani – drums

Guest musicians

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– saxophone *

Gil Bernal Gil Bernal (February 4, 1931–July 17, 2011) was an American singer and session musician. His saxophone can be heard on recordings such as "Searchin'" by The Coasters. In the 1950s he played on Duane Eddy's 1958 album '' Have 'Twangy' Guitar W ...

– saxophone *Ike Clanton – bass guitar *Jimmy Simmons –

upright bass The double bass (), also known as the upright bass, the acoustic bass, the bull fiddle, or simply the bass, is the largest and lowest-pitched string instrument, chordophone in the modern orchestra, symphony orchestra (excluding rare additions ...

*Jimmy Wilcox – bass guitar * Donnie Owens – rhythm guitar * The Sharps – backing vocals

Technical

– producer *

Lester Sill Lester Sill (January 13, 1918 – October 31, 1994) was a United States record label executive, music publisher and recording artist manager within the West Coast Rock & Roll, West Coast R&B and Surf genres. Sill rose to become the president of ...

– producer *Jack Miller –

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*Eddie Brackett – engineer *Greg Vaughn – mastering * Tom Moulton – mastering *Ben Demotto –

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Chart positions

Singles

References

External links

Have Twangy Guitar Will Travel
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