Chords for Duane Eddy - "Rebel Rouser" & Interview (Live on CabaRay Nashville)

One of the things I really enjoy about doing this show is the chance it gives me to spend
some time with my old friends, like this next friend whose distinctive guitar sound I never
get tired of listening to, the inventor of twang, ladies and gentlemen, Dwayne Eddy. _ _ _
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[N] Now Dwayne, you are a member of both the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Musicians Hall of Fame.
This is true.
Yeah, and, and, but you're a country boy at heart, right?
I am.
I grew up listening to, _ excuse me, Hank Williams, Lefty Frizzell, of course, George Jones, Webb Pierce.
And you grew up where?
I grew up in Arizona mostly.
I was born back in New York State.
That's what I was thinking New York.
Yeah, Corning, New York to be exact.
And where they make the glass works and where they have the glass works and make the glass.
Corning.
Everybody's got Corningware at home.
Yeah, my dad got sick of shoveling snow, so he said, I want to go somewhere warmer.
So I was about 12 then, 11 or 12.
I said, I want to go to Arizona and see the Cowboys and Indians, you know.
Right.
Never did see them, but we did go to Arizona.
So you're the guy that talked your dad into moving to Arizona?
Is that true?
Yeah.
Yeah.
And you met Lee Hazelwood out there, right?
Yeah, we'd had, my dad managed the Safeway stores and he worked up the assistant manager
in Tucson where we first went and then they gave him his own store in a little town called Coolidge.
_ So we moved up there and they had a little radio station and Lee Hazelwood had just gotten
out of Columbia Broadcasting School, I think it was.
And _ they tried to place their DJs and they placed him in Coolidge.
Well now, tell the audience about the significance of your relationship with Lee Hazelwood.
_ Tell them who Lee Hazelwood is in the first place, because I know who he is, but a lot
of people might not.
Yeah, a lot of people don't.
_ He became my producer in 1957, late 57, and produced and co-wrote all my hit songs that
I did in 58 and 59 and 60 and 61, 62.
_ _ And he also, then he went on to _ work with Nancy Sinatra.
He wrote These Boots Are Made For Walking.
Pretty talented guy.
Yeah.
Nice guy to hook up with.
Yeah, yeah.
But at the time he was a DJ and _ what was great about his producing is he'd sit there in the
radio station and listen to all those records and he'd memorize the sounds of the bass,
the drums, the keyboard.
So when he went in to make records, _ _ _ he'd memorize.
He knew what to listen for.
He knew what he wanted on the sound.
Listen, what kind of guitar did you develop your unique style on?
One just like this, except instead of Dwayne Eddy.
That says Dwayne Eddy there on the pickguard.
It says what?
It said Chet Atkins.
_ Because it was 1957 and I went into the Siggy's Music Store there in Phoenix and _ _ bought, I
paid $17.50 a month.
I'm telling you, the Chet Atkins Gretsch guitar back then was the hot guitar and they were
the most expensive guitar probably.
No, no, because I had a White Falcon on the wall that was about $750.
This was $450.
_ _ Well, none of my friends could afford it.
But the reason I wanted it mostly besides being, I love Chet, but the reason I had it,
we had the Wang Bar, the vibrato on it.
And that's what I, I didn't have that on my 54 Gibson Gold Top. _ _
Bigsby, Bigsby is the name I remember.
And there it is right there.
Bigsby.
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[D] _ _ [E] _ _ [B] Woo!
Here [N] we go again.
Dwayne's gonna be that song that was in that movie Forrest Gump.
You remember that movie where Forrest is running down that driveway and these mean boys are
chasing him in a pickup truck and he turns, cuts left out of that driveway and jumps a
fence and starts running down the football field.
And then everybody's saying, run Forrest, run.
Well, that song was Dwayne Eddy's Rebel Rouser.
Dwayne Eddy, ladies and [F#] gentlemen.
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