Twangin...
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{{Infobox album
| name = Twangin...
| type = studio
| artist = Dave Edmunds
| cover = Twangin Dave Edmunds album cover.jpg
| alt =
| released = {{Start date|1981|4|20|df=y}}
| recorded =
| venue =
| studio = Eden Studios, London
Rockfield Studios, Wales
| genre = Rock
| length = {{Duration|m=30|s=27}}
| label = Swan Song
| producer = Dave Edmunds
| prev_title = Repeat When Necessary
| prev_year = 1979
| next_title = D.E. 7th
| next_year = 1982
}}
{{album reviews
|rev1 = AllMusic
|rev1score = {{rating|3.5|5}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/twangin-mw0000315550|title=Twangin' - Dave Edmunds | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic|website=AllMusic}}
|rev2 = Robert Christgau
|rev3 = The Rolling Stone Album Guide
|rev3score = {{rating|3|5}}{{Cite web|url=http://tomhull.com/ocston/arch/rs/edmunds,dave-old.php|title=[The New] Rolling Stone Album Guide: Dave Edmunds|website=tomhull.com}}
}}
Twangin... is a 1981 album by Dave Edmunds, and his final recording for Swan Song Records before moving to Columbia Records.{{Cite web|url=https://trouserpress.com/reviews/dave-edmunds/|title=Dave Edmunds}} The album would also be the last Edmunds solo effort to feature Rockpile.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fdvoZRLEs7EC&q=Twangin...+dave+edmunds+1981&pg=PA228|title=Rockabilly: A Forty-year Journey|first=Billy|last=Poore|date=July 5, 1998|publisher=Hal Leonard Corporation|isbn=9780793591428|via=Google Books}}
Twangin... consists mostly of outtakes from previous recording sessions, including one track dating to 1968, a version of "Baby Let's Play House", a rockabilly number made famous by Elvis Presley. The album also features a collaboration with the Stray Cats, whose debut album Edmunds produced.
The album is almost entirely made up of cover songs, including the Wilson Pickett B-side "Three Time Loser" and the George Jones classic "The Race Is On" (with the Stray Cats).
The album art, featuring a portrait of Edmunds, is by Barney Bubbles.
Track listing
=Side one=
- "Something Happens" (John Hiatt) - 3:13
- "It's Been So Long" (Ian Gomm) - 2:14
- "Singin' the Blues" (Melvin Endsley) - 2:58
- "(I'm Gonna Start) Living Again If It Kills Me" (Nick Lowe, Carlene Carter, Edmunds) - 3:20
- "Almost Saturday Night" (John Fogerty) - 2:10
=Side two=
- "Cheap Talk, Patter and Jive" (Hank DeVito, Donivan Cowart) - 3:05
- "Three Time Loser" (Don Covay, Ron Miller) - 2:43
- "You'll Never Get Me Up (In One of Those)" (Mickey Jupp) - 3:46
- "I'm Only Human" (Lowe, Rockpile) - 2:07
- "The Race Is On" (Don Rollins) - 2:04
- "Baby Let's Play House" (Arthur Gunter) - 2:18
Personnel
- Dave Edmunds - guitar, vocals
- Nick Lowe (credited as "Nicky Lowe") - bass, except on "The Race Is On" and "Baby Let's Play House"
- Terry Williams - drums, except on "The Race Is On" and "Baby Let's Play House"
- Billy Bremner - guitar, except on "The Race Is On" and "Baby Let's Play House"
- Chesterfield Kings - harp on "Cheap Talk, Patter and Jive"
- Brian Setzer - guitar on "The Race Is On"
- Lee Rocker - string bass on "The Race Is On"
- Slim Jim Phantom - drums on "The Race Is On"
- John Williams (later known as John David) - string bass on "Baby Let's Play House"
- Mickey Gee - electric guitar on "Baby Let's Play House"
- Aldo Bocca - Engineer
References
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Category:Swan Song Records albums