Thursday 29 June 2017

THE VOICE & THE TWANGY GUITAR...

Listening to Sara Evans singing ‘I Could Not Ask For More’, I couldn’t help thinking of Duane Eddy’s twangy guitar on songs like ‘Dance With the Guitar Man’ but then when I heard the new song by the artist, ‘Marquee Sign’, the way her voice dropped to a rich deep sound made me want to write about the two things…

The Voice & the Twangy Guitar

The range shifts from a honey poignancy
To a rich red wine,
The melody rising
Like a clarinet, plaintive,
Then tumbling dramatically
To a tenor saxophone, thrumming
And the breath is held
At the singer’s tendency
To stoke the soul
And render minds emotive,
As a loose twangy guitar
Plucks Duane Eddy from the past,
His riffs persistent and strumming…

Pete Ray
June 2017






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