Duane Eddy

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Duane Eddy is an American rock and roll guitarist famed for his distinctive "twangy" guitar sound and influential instrumental hits of the late 1950s and early 1960s.

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Duane Eddy canonical 5
Art of Noise featuring Duane Eddy 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf guitarist
human
recording artist
rock and roll musician
activeYearsStart 1950s
associatedAct Chet Atkins
Lee Hazlewood
The Rebels
Waylon Jennings
awardReceived Grammy Hall of Fame induction for Rebel-'Rouser
basedIn Arizona
surface form: Arizona, United States
birthDate 1938-04-26
birthPlace Corning, New York
surface form: Corning, New York, United States
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
familyName Eddy
fullName Duane Eddy self-link
genre instrumental rock
rock and roll
rockabilly
givenName Duane
hasSignatureSound twangy guitar tone produced on the bass strings
honor inducted into the Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum
inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
influenced many later rock guitarists
influencedGenre instrumental rock
surf rock
instrument electric guitar
language English
notableFor distinctive twangy guitar sound
instrumental rock hits in the early 1960s
instrumental rock hits in the late 1950s
notableInstrumentModel Gretsch Duane Eddy signature guitar
notableWork Because They’re Young
Cannonball
Forty Miles of Bad Road
Peter Gunn
Rebel-'Rouser
occupation guitarist
songwriter
recordLabel Columbia Records
Jamie Records
RCA Records
spouse Deed Abbate
Jesse Colter
Miriam Eddy
styleCharacteristic heavy use of echo and reverb
low-register guitar melodies
use of vibrato and tremolo

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Art of Noise collaboratedWith Duane Eddy
Peter Gunn notableArrangementBy Duane Eddy
Peter Gunn notableArrangementBy Duane Eddy
this entity surface form: Art of Noise featuring Duane Eddy
Peter Gunn associatedWith Duane Eddy
Duane Eddy fullName Duane Eddy self-link
Jessi Colter spouse Duane Eddy