Lee Hazlewood<\/a> and released on the Philadelphia-based label Jamie Records. The Rebels, his backing band, boasted several members of the celebrated West Coast studio collective known as the Wrecking Crew including the guitarist Al Casey, the saxophonists Jim Horn and Plas Johnson, and the keyboard and bass player Larry Knechtel.<\/p>\nMost of Mr. Eddy\u2019s albums from the late 1950s and early \u201960s incorporated a version of the word \u201ctwang\u201d in their titles.<\/p>\n
Mr. Eddy was born on April 26, 1938, in Corning, N.Y., a small town in the south central part of the state, and started playing the guitar at the age of 5. His father, Lloyd, drove a bread truck and later managed a Safeway grocery store, and his mother, Alberta Evelyn (Granger) Eddy, managed the home. The family moved to Tucson, Ariz., when Duane was 13, and then to Phoenix, where he met Mr. Hazlewood and they began their musical partnership.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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He acquired his first custom-made Chet Atkins-model Gretsch guitar when he was 16. He made his first recordings \u2014 as half of the duo Jimmy and Duane, with the pianist Jimmy Delbridge (who later recorded under the name Jimmy Dell) \u2014 the next year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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In 1957, Mr. Eddy began touring as a guitarist with Dick Clark\u2019s Caravan of Stars, and he began releasing recordings under his own name shortly afterward.<\/p>\n
Mr. Eddy and Mr. Hazlewood parted ways over a contract dispute in late 1960, though they later reunited to work on projects. Mr. Eddy signed with RCA shortly after.<\/p>\n
The hit singles had stopped coming by the mid-1960s, but Mr. Eddy continued to release instrumental albums, including \u201cDuane Does Dylan,\u201d a collection of covers of songs written by Bob Dylan.<\/p>\n
The rockabilly revival of the next decade gave rise to renewed interested in Mr. Eddy\u2019s work. The 1970s also saw Mr. Eddy producing albums by Phil Everly and Waylon Jennings, whose widow, Jessi Colter, was married to Mr. Eddy from 1962 to 1968.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Mr. Eddy\u2019s music was introduced to yet another generation of fans in the 1980s, when the British synth-pop group Art of Noise released an avant-disco reworking of his 1960 hit version of Henry Mancini\u2019s \u201cPeter Gunn,\u201d with Mr. Eddy on lead guitar. It won a Grammy Award for best rock instrumental performance in 1987.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n