Turn the clock back 50 years and you weren't a proper electric guitarist unless you had a generous quiff and a twang-heavy tone drenched in Grand Canyon-sized reverb. This was at least partly down to ...

Duane Eddy, the twangy, Grammy-winning rock guitarist who had Top 10 instrumental hits including “Rebel Rouser” and “Forty Miles of Bad Road” and scored with a version of Henry Mancini’s “Peter Gunn,” ...

Duane Eddy figures he was 5 or 6 the day he saw his first guitar. "I was in the basement with my dad, cleaning up down there or something, and I saw this thing against the wall," the man who grew up ...

FILE - Duane Eddy performs during the Americana Music Honors and Awards show, Sept. 18, 2013, in Nashville, Tenn. Eddy, a pioneering guitar hero whose reverberating electric sound on instrumentals ...

Duane Eddy was inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994 on the strength of a career he launched in 1958 with the million-selling instrumental “Rebel Rouser.” The most commercially successful ...

Duane Eddy, a pioneering guitar hero whose reverberating electric sound on instrumentals such as “Rebel Rouser” and “Peter Gunn” helped put the twang in early rock ‘n’ roll and influenced George ...