American Songwriter

All Your Favorite 1960s Songs Sound the Way They Do Because of a Clever Marketing Strategy

This six-string bass completely changed the way your favorite country and pop songs from the 1960s sounded. Can you hear the difference?
American Songwriter

On This Day in 1971, the World Said Goodbye to an Iconic Guitarist Who Influenced Generations and Was Just Getting Started

Fifty-four years ago today, one of the most promising and influential guitarists in modern American music died at the age of 24.
The Canadian Press on MSN

Today-Music-History-Oct28

Today in Music History for Oct. 28: In 1820, John H. Hopkins, the author and composer of the Christmas hymn "We Three Kings of Orient Are," was born.

What were the top radio hits the year you were born?

What were the top radio hits the year you were born? Do you know what the big summer radio hits were the year you were born?
Chicago Sun-Times

Duane Eddy, pioneering guitar hero and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member, dies at 86

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Los Angeles Times

Duane Eddy, rock guitarist known for ‘Rebel Rouser,’ ‘Peter Gunn’ and ‘twang,’ dies at 86

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 ...
Rapid City Journal

Duane Eddy, twangy guitar hero of early rock, dead at age 86

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 ...