Guitar pioneer Duane Eddy is best known for “the twang” of early Rock and Roll. Eddy died April 30, 2024 in Franklin, Tennessee as a result of cancer just four days after his 86th birthday.
Eddy who once said, “one of my biggest contributions to the music business is not singing”; has sold over 100 million albums around the world. His signature sound was playing the bass notes on the guitar; saying that they sounded better on the tape.
A member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Eddy earned a Grammy Award for the theme form the television series “Peter Gunn”; but he turned down the theme song for the James Bond franchise “song because there wasn’t enough guitar music in it.” He is also a member of the Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum.
Recording dozens of albums, Eddy slowed down in the 80’s; “living off my royalties,” he said after spending some time working behind the scenes in music production.
Beatles George Harrison and Sir Paul McCartney were both fans of Eddy and later had Eddy record with them in 1987.
Duane Jerome Eddy was born April 26, 1938 in the central New York town of Corning but was raised in Phoenix, Arizona. He began his musical journey at age five with the guitar.
He is survived by his fourth wife Diane Mary “Deed” Abbate.
Duane Eddy discography:
“Have “Twangy” Guitar, Will Travel”
“Especially for You”
“The Twang’s the Thang”
“Songs of Our Heritage”
“Girls! Girls! Girls!”
“Twangy Guitar, Silky Strings”
“Twistin’ ‘N’ Twangin’”
“Twistin’ with Duane Eddy”
“Duane Eddy in Person”
“Surfin’”
“Twant a Country Song”
“Twangin’ Up a Storm”
“Lonely Guitar”
“Water Skiing”
“Duane A-Go-Go”
“Duane Does Dylan”
“Twangin’ the Golden Hits”
“Twangsville”
“The Biggest Twang of them All”
“The Roaring Twangies”
“Duane Eddy”
“Duane Eddy [1987]
“Road Trip”
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