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Have 'Twangy' Guitar Will Travel
Studio album by Duane Eddy
Released	January 9, 1958
Recorded	1957
Studio	Audio Recorders, Phoenix, Arizona
Genre	Instrumental rock rock and roll rockabilly blues surf country
Length	33:47
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
"Moovin' N' Groovin" Released: 1958 "Rebel-'Rouser" Released: May 1958 "Ramrod" Released: August 1958 "Cannonball" Released: October 1958 "The Lonely One" Released: 1959

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music
The Rolling Stone Album Guide

Have 'Twangy' Guitar Will Travel is the debut album by the guitarist Duane Eddy. It was released in 1958 on Jamie Records, as JLP-3000. 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".

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."

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

• Duane Eddy – guitar
• Al Casey – electric bass, piano, rhythm guitar
• Steve Douglas – saxophone
• Corki Casey O'Dell – rhythm guitar
• Buddy Wheeler – electric bass
• Bob Taylor – drums
• Mike Bermani – drums

Guest musicians

• Plas Johnson – saxophone
• Gil Bernal – saxophone
• Ike Clanton – bass guitar
• Jimmy Simmons – upright bass
• Jimmy Wilcox – bass guitar
• Donnie Owens – rhythm guitar
• The Sharps – backing vocals

Technical

• Lee Hazlewood – producer
• Lester Sill – producer
• Jack Miller – engineer
• Eddie Brackett – engineer
• Greg Vaughn – mastering
• Tom Moulton – mastering
• Ben Demotto – liner notes

Chart positions

Singles

References

1. AllMusic review
2. Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 3. MUZE. p. 215.
3. The Rolling Stone Album Guide. Random House. 1992. pp. 220–221.
4. Casabona, Helen (April 9, 1989). "Rock Guitar". Hal Leonard Corporation – via Google Books.
5. "In the Pipeline: After 50 years, Duane Eddy will travel". Daily Pilot. February 1, 2012.
6. Popoff, Martin (September 8, 2009). "Goldmine Record Album Price Guide". Penguin – via Google Books.
7. MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide. Visible Ink Press. 1999. p. 376.
8. Whitburn, Joel (2001). Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Albums, 1955-2001. Record Research. p. 260.
9. Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 178. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.
10. Whitburn, Joel (2003). Top Pop Singles 1955–2002 (1st ed.). Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin: Record Research Inc. p. 218. ISBN 0-89820-155-1.
11. Betts, Graham (2004). Complete UK Hit Singles 1952–2004 (1st ed.). London: Collins. p. 248. ISBN 0-00-717931-6.

External links

• Have Twangy Guitar Will Travel
• Duane Eddy | Way Back Attack

• Duane Eddy albums
• 1958 debut albums
• Jamie Records albums
• Albums produced by Lee Hazlewood
• Albums produced by Lester Sill