If there was one contemporary artist you'd expect on the first Duane Eddy album in 25 years, it's Richard Hawley. The Sheffield singer would acknowledge his debt to Eddy's twanging guitar, one of the building blocks of rock'n'roll and the pair share writing duties on four tracks. Recorded in Hawley's hometown, the album leans on Eddy's atmospheric side, yielding an appealing sense of place that's most obvious on "Bleaklow Air", where the US veteran falls in love not with the majesty of an American highway, but the more rough-hewn beauty of the Pennines.
(Mad Monkey)
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