Duane Eddy – Dance With The Guitar Man / Twistin' 'N' Twangin' (1998) @ 320

 

 Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine

One Way reissued two of Duane Eddy's RCA albums, Dance with the Guitar Man and Twistin' & Twangin', on one CD in 1998. Dance with the Guitar Man is exactly what the title suggests -- a dance album built around Eddy's hit title track. It plays a lot better than it reads, and it's a thoroughly entertaining party rock album. Twistin' & Twangin' is in the same vein as Dance with the Guitar Man, but it isn't quite as entertaining, mainly because everything has the same twist beat and is tied into the twist craze -- all but one song has "twist" in the title (even "I'm Walkin'" was retitled "Walkin' N' Twistin'"). Still, there are some fun moments to be had before the concept wears itself out, and it's a reasonably entertaining record, even if it is padded with filler. (One Way added three bonus tracks -- "Stretchin' Out," "Wild Westerners" and "Desert Rat" -- to their two-fer).

01. Duane Eddy - (Dance With The) Guitar Man 

 02. Duane Eddy - Limbo Rock 

 03. Duane Eddy - Wild Watusi 

 04. Duane Eddy - The Scrape 

 05. Duane Eddy - New Hully Gully 

 06. Duane Eddy - Popeye (The Hitchhiker) 

 07. Duane Eddy - Spanish Twist 

 08. Duane Eddy - The Climb 

 09. Duane Eddy - Loco-Locomotion 

 10. Duane Eddy - Nashville Stomp 

 11. Duane Eddy - Creamy Mashed Potatoes 

 12. Duane Eddy - Waltz Of The Wind 

 13. Duane Eddy - The Peppermint Twist 

 14. Duane Eddy - Twistin' 'n' Twangin' 

 15. Duane Eddy - Let's Twist Again 

 16. Duane Eddy - Miss Twist 

 17. Duane Eddy - Sugartime Twist 

 18. Duane Eddy - Exactly Like You 

 19. Duane Eddy - Walkin' 'n' Twistin' 

 20. Duane Eddy - Dear Lady Twist 

 21. Duane Eddy - Moanin' 'n' Twistin' 

 22. Duane Eddy - Country Twist 

 23. Duane Eddy - The Twist 

 24. Duane Eddy - Twisting Off a Cliff 

 25. Duane Eddy - Stretchin' Out 

 26. Duane Eddy - The Wild Westerners 

 27. Duane Eddy - The Desert Rat

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