Hugely influential to generations of rock guitar players, Eddy helped define an era, and establish the electric guitar as an instrument with a voice all its own. Born in Corning, New York in 1938, ...

Duane Eddy, a pioneering guitarist credited with putting the twang in guitar playing and known for hits including “Rebel Rouser,” “Forty Miles of Bad Road,” and “Because They’re Young,” has died at ...

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 ...

Before The Beatles came along and upended the established order, instrumentals were a staple of Top 40 radio, and guitar-slinger Duane Eddy led the field. Guitar Star picks up the story in 1962, after ...

Duane Eddy, one of rock’s first guitar heroes and an idol of George Harrison, Jeff Beck, John Fogerty, Dan Auerbach, and many other guitar-slingers who followed, died Sunday at his home in Franklin, ...

A self-taught electric guitar virtuoso, he influenced a generation of musicians. One of them, John Fogerty, called him rock’s first guitar god. By Bill Friskics-Warren Bill Friskics-Warren reports on ...

NEW YORK — 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 ...