https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwVD3CZ90jk Sad to hear that Duane Eddy passed this last month. Amazing to consider how popular he was. It's hard to comprehend now how ubiquitous Eddy was at his peak: he was NME's No 1 World Musical Pers… 
Sad to hear that Duane Eddy passed this last month. Amazing to consider how popular he was. It's hard to comprehend now how ubiquitous Eddy was at his peak: he was NME's No 1 World Musical Personality in 1960, despite that being the year in which he tried to capitalise on the booming folk scene by releasing the frankly peculiar Songs of Our Heritage, an album of American folk standards, largely played on banjo and acoustic guitar, and entirely devoid of the twang). And when ubiquity disappeared, he did what so many other fading rock'n'roll stars did, and chased the times. In Eddy's case that came with the 1965 album Duane Eddy Does Bob Dylan, a remarkable period piece in which Eddy's guitar sits uncomfortably on top of folk-rock arrangements (and which also features two Hazlewood songs, and – its highlight – an extraordinary version of PF Sloan's Eve of Destruction). I'm always intrigued by what lasts and what doesn't in music. Eddy was that significant, and as the piece says, ubiquitous, and yet while never forgotten he didn't maintain that ubiquity thereafter. I always loved the reworked version of Peter Gunn where he and Art of Noise played together. It was a brilliant means of reconsidering his work. Not so sure about the video though 🙂 
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