Loretta Lynn teamed up with Jack White of the White Stripes to put some tough, rootsy guitar twang on her album "Van Lear Rose."
Anyone who longs for a down-home guitar twang and a groove with a backbeat will find it in Little Village - and get something extra, too.
The younger musicians, by and large, played rockabilly as a style they respected and doted on, an idiom of guitar twangs and vocal yelps salvaged from a bygone era.
He has just released an album with guest musicians from the Band and Los Lobos, and is back on the road with Rocky Burnette, Johnny's son, still making his guitar twang and snarl.
John Fogerty's wild-eyed wail and distilled guitar twang are utterly undiminished, the sound of a mythic backwoods Southland where barefoot girls dance in the moonlight.
Ned Raggett of Allmusic wrote "The title track itself is very rockabilly-glam, from the tribal drums to the heavy guitar twangs, though the curious lyric keeps it from being a Morrissey classic."
A funky, effected, simple guitar twang adds to the old and new feel.
The music can be cozy and old-timey or it can let its electric guitar twang and ring, and the songs are ornery and awestruck all at once.
In the late 1950s, when blues revivalists prized rootsy growls and acoustic guitar twangs, she happily shouted praises over electric riffs.
The album features the voice of David Lynch and guest vocals by Yeah Yeah Yeahs' Karen O, over "reverb-soaked guitar twangs" and "electronic washes".