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There's an explosive excitement in the air which rings loud and clear in today's popular music. Young composers are creating songs which carry meaning and lasting power. Many of these songs are sung with soul and understanding, but as we concentrate on the lyrics, we may perchance, shy away from enjoying the melodies.
Guitarist extraordinaire, Duane Eddy, sets the record straight. His versatile, twangy guitar, sounding rich and resonant, offers fiery instrumental interpretations of some of today's most potent new songs, principally from the pen of Bob Dylan, the poet laureate of the 1960's.
Eddy's guitar romps and soars through Dylan's brain waves -- translated in this album into notes which build and explode into bar lines of enjoyable melodies. By instrumentally interpreting 12 of the significant songs of the 60's, Eddy proves there is quality and richness in popular music, too often knocked down for its tendency toward shrillness and over-amplification.
When you hear Eddy and cohorts playing songs which have a familiar ring because of their hit status, you get the feeling that someone is singing the lyrics. Yet, there are no words, only the sure-fingering of Eddy's guitar, a gutbucket harmonica providing mournful solos, and a blending of drums, tambourines and guitars in the background. Yet, you tend to hear these words, which seems to indicate that a good song is hard to forget. For the past seven years, Duane has performed the music of young America. Like the popular music industry itself, Duane has fallen in step with the movement toward maturity. No more moon-spoon-June songs, but "Blowin' In The Wind" and "Eve Of Destruction" (by the clever 19 year old refugee from surfing songs, Phil Sloan).
What Bob Dylan is capable of saying with his magical way with words, Duane Eddy is capable of saying instrumentally. As you will undoubtedly hear, it's a happy marriage.
Elliot Tiegel
Billboard Magazine
