Duane Eddy

Duane Eddy ( born April 26, 1938 in Corning in the U.S. state of New York) is an American rock and pop guitarist.

Biography

Duane Eddy was born in 1938 in Corning in the U.S. state of New York and began at the age of five years, as his great Western hero Gene Autry guitar. In 1951 he moved with his family to Arizona.

At 25, he married in 1963 Mirriam Johnson, a country singer with the stage name Jessi Colter. In its six years of marriage, she also worked in the arts and published in 1967, the single " Guitar on My Mind". After her divorce Jessi Colter married the following year, the country singer Waylon Jennings, Duane Eddy during his second wife, Deed, married, with whom he still lives together in Memphis, Tennessee.

Work and successes

Since the late 1950s, Duane Eddy is well-known for his instrumental music on the electric guitar with which he was represented for several years regularly in the U.S. and European charts. Eddy's trademark as his " twang " guitar sound is designated. His most famous piece is a version of the play Peter Gunn of the composer Henry Mancini, for which he received a 1987 Grammy Award. Duane Eddy was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994 and 2008 in the Musicians Hall of Fame. At Duane Eddy's most famous instrumental titles include Peter Gunn ( 1958), Rebel Rouser (1958), Forty Miles of Bad Road (1959 ), A Londonderry Air (1961 ), Dance with the Guitar Man (1962) and Boss Guitar (1962 ). The 1960s were prolific with about twenty published albums Eddy's creative period; published in 1965 alone six LPs under his own name. Duane Eddy was in the U.S. despite several golden records - the first one in 1958 - never achieve a No. 1 hit; the highest chart position of his pieces became in 1960 the title Because They're Young with fourth place. During the 1950s and - 60s reached fifteen of Eddy's Singles Top 40 of the U.S. Billboard charts.

In the 1980s, Eddy took the British band Art of Noise on the song Peter Gunn in a modernized version, for which in 1987 he won a Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance was awarded. In 2004 he was awarded the Guitar Player magazine's Legend Award - an award that had previously been awarded only once. The latest publication Duane Eddy comes from the 2011 total, more than 100 million records have been sold worldwide by Eddy's recordings -. Making it the most successful rock 'n ' roll instrumental musicians of all time.

Guitar sound as a trademark

Eddy produced the typical Duane Eddy twang by playing the guide melody on the bass strings of his guitar and worked with a combination of the sound effects tremolo, delay and reverb that gave his guitar playing a deep earthy sound. Also, the guitar sound on Eddy's recordings by his choice of instrument was affected. At the beginning of his career, Eddy initially played a Gibson Les Paul. Later he joined the Gretsch Chet Atkins model, but saddled in 1962 on a developed according to his specifications special model of the company to Guild, the Duane Eddy DE -500. The Gretsch Guild and the model are guitars with hollow body and essential for Eddy's typical sound Bigsby vibrato unit.

Discography ( albums)

  • Have Twangy Guitar Will Travel (1958 )
  • Especially for You ( 1958)
  • Twangs the Thang (1959 )
  • Songs of Our Heritage (1960 )
  • 1 Million Dollars of Twang (1961 )
  • Girls Girls Girls (1961 )
  • Twistin 'and Twangin ' (1962 )
  • Twangy Guitar Silky Strings (1962 )
  • Dance with the Guitar Man (1963 )
  • Pure Gold (1963 )
  • Twangs a Country Song ( 1963)
  • Twangin 'up a Storm (1963 )
  • Lonely Guitar (1964 )
  • Twistin ' Surfin' (1964 )
  • Duane a Gogo (1965 )
  • Water Skiing (1965 )
  • Twangin ' Golden Hits (1965 )
  • Duane Goes Dylan (1965 )
  • Twangsville (1965)
  • Best Of (1965 )
  • Biggest Twang of All (1966 )
  • Roarin ' Twangies (1967 )
  • Legend of Rock (1974 )
  • Legend of Rock 2 (1974 )
  • Legends of Rock 3 - Rare Items ( 1974)
  • Yesterday's Pop Scene (1975 )
  • Duane Eddy (1979 )
  • Vintage Years (1975 )
  • Guitar Man (1975 )
  • Oldies But Goodies ( 1975)
  • Duane Eddy Collection ( 1978)
  • Greatest Hits (1979 )
  • Movin '& Groovin' (1980 )
  • Terrific Twangies 20 (1980)
  • Duane Eddy with Guests (1987 )
  • Road Trip ( 2011)
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