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Duane Eddy Especially For You.... (1958)
Especially For You....\n2000 Jamie/Guyden Dist. Co.\n\nOriginally Released 1958\nCD Edition Released April 25, 2000\n\nAMG EXPERT REVIEW: Eddy's second LP contained just one hit, "Yep," although "Peter Gunn" would enter the Top 40 when it was issued later in 1960. Unlike his debut Have "Twangy" Guitar Will Travel, it was not built around singles and a few songs to stretch it to album length, with all of the songs (except "Yep") being recorded in a week. Give Eddy this much credit: at a time when virtually all rock & roll LPs were hasty knocked-together jobs, he did at least try to vary the program. There was slow blues ("Only Child"), pop standards (Rodgers & Hart's "Lover"), a rather long jazzy workout ("Quiniela"), original material in the mold of his hits, sax-driven R&B (a cover of Noble Watts' "Hard Times"), and poppy stuff with strings and wordless female backup vocals that sounded like themes for B-movie westerns ("Along the Navajo Trail"). It still added up to a pretty inconsequential instrumental album in which the hits ("Peter Gunn" and "Yep") boasted much more arresting hooks than the surrounding tunes. Eddy sounds like he's tearing a page from Les Paul's book on "Lover," with its very atypical (for Eddy) arrangement of hyper-fast guitar licks. The 2000 CD reissue has five previously unreleased bonus tracks, but all of these are in fact alternates: "Some Kinda Earthquake" (a hit single recorded at the sessions but held off the album) and "Only Child" with alternate overdubs, take one of "Yep," "St. James" (actually a retitled version of "Quiniela"), and an undubbed version of "First Love, First Tears," a ballad that was also held off the LP. \n \nTowerRecords.com Product Notes:\nProducer: Lester Bill; Lee Hazlewood\n\nPersonnel includes: Duane Eddy, Corki Casey (guitar); Plas Johnson, Steve Douglas (saxophone); Al Casey (piano); Buddy Wheeler (bass); Jimmy Simmons (upright bass); Michael Bermani (drums).\n\nEngineers: Jack Miller, Eddie Brackett, Ben Jordon.\n\nRecorded at Ramsey Studios, Phoenix, Arizona between March 13 and March 24, 1959.\n\nEven though Duane Eddy's first album, HAVE TWANGY GUITAR WILL TRAVEL, was still on the charts in the spring of 1959, Jamie Guyden Records urged Eddy to complete a second record. The result was the popular ESPECIALLY FOR YOU, an LP dedicated to the very fans who catapulted the young guitarist to the top of the charts.\n\nOn ESPECIALLY FOR YOU, Eddy's reverberant "slap-back" guitar drives this music, making each song distinctive. Compared to his debut release, the repertoire is more varied on this album. For example, Eddy and his band perform the Swing Era standard, "Tuxedo Junction," and "Lover," an upbeat tune by the Broadway songwriting team Rodgers & Hart. There's even a foray into light jazz on "Quiniela." The addition of strings and a vocal choir on "Along the Navajo Trail" and the record's final track, "Along Came Linda," shows a shift in artistic vision; this is not just a rock & roll quartet anymore. (Note: This reissue contains five bonus tracks culled from Eddy's archives.)\n

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