Duane Eddy Collaborates with Fan For New Album
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Monday, 28 March 2011 |
Written by Elliott Batte
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On June 20th, Mad Monkey Records - in conjunction with EMI – will release the new Duane Eddy album, Road Trip.
Road Trip features 11 songs, recorded in 11 days at Yellow Arch Studios in Sheffield, October 2010. The album was co-produced by long-time fan Richard Hawley – whom, along with members of his band, co-wrote a selection of the album’s songs with Eddy.
Eddy and Hawley met at last year’s Mojo Awards, where Eddy was awarded - by another fan, Be-Bop Deluxe’s Bill Nelson - with the Mojo Icon Award. Hitting it off straight away, a plan was hatched whereby Hawley would work with Eddy on a new album – a dream come true for Hawley who’d wanted to work with his guitar hero for a long, long time, having been turned onto the wonders of his playing when he was a mere boy.
The resulting album ‘Road Trip’ is a cinematic journey, rich and resonant in production, evoking Eddy’s love of the desert, yet capturing the character of what’s become Hawley’s native Sheffield sound. The album draws the listener into a widescreen world; a road movie travelling through desert badlands. Along with classic-sounding Eddy tracks, encompassing rock ’n’ roll, country and jazz, the album also features some very new-sounding contemporary tracks, which sound like nothing he’s ever recorded before.
From album opener ‘The Attack Of The Duck Billed Platypus’ - a classic Eddy primal rocker which conjures up images of eerie, lawless western towns – ‘Road Trip' journeys through ‘Twango’, a tribute to Django Reinhardt; the Morricone-esque ‘Bleaklow Air’; the perfect meeting of Eddy’s and Hawley’s styles on co-write ‘Kindness Ain’t Made Of Sand’; plenty of the great man’s trademark ‘Twang’ on ‘Curveball’, ‘Mexborough Ferry Boat Halt’ and the scuzzy, garage rock ’n’ roller - all reverberating bass notes and wailing sax - ‘Primeval’, and the beautifully picked and understated album closer, ‘Franklin Town’. Throughout the album is an incredible reminder of the extraordinary virtuosic guitar-playing and songwriting talents of Duane Eddy. Often imitated, never equalled.
You can see the tracklisting for ‘Road Trip’ below.
1. The Attack Of The Duck Billed Platypus
2. Twango
3. Curveball
4. Road Trip
5. Bleaklow Air
6. ndness Ain’t Made Of Sand
7. Mexborough Ferry Boat Halt
8. Desert Song
9. Primeval
10. Rose Of The Valley
11. Franklin Town
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