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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 (recording facility)|Eden Studios]], London<br />[[Rockfield Studios]], Wales
| genre = [[Rock and roll|Rock]]
| length = {{Duration|m=30|s=27}}
| label = [[Swan Song Records|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}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/twangin-mw0000315550|title=Twangin' - Dave Edmunds | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic|website=[[AllMusic]]}}</ref>
|rev2 = [[Robert Christgau]]
|rev2score = B<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_album.php?id=942|title=Robert Christgau: Album: Dave Edmunds: Twangin|website=www.robertchristgau.com}}</ref>
|rev3 = ''[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide]]''
|rev3score = {{rating|3|5}}<ref>{{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}}</ref>
}}

'''''Twangin...''''' is a 1981 album by [[Dave Edmunds]], and his final recording for [[Swan Song Records]] before moving to [[Columbia Records]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://trouserpress.com/reviews/dave-edmunds/|title=Dave Edmunds}}</ref> The album would also be the last Edmunds solo effort to feature [[Rockpile]].<ref>{{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}}</ref>

''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 (song)|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
# "[[Singing The Blues|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 (songwriter)|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 (song)|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 (drummer)|Terry Williams]] - drums, except on "The Race Is On" and "Baby Let's Play House"
*[[Billy Bremner (musician)|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 David (musician)|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:1981 albums]]
[[Category:Dave Edmunds albums]]
[[Category:Swan Song Records albums]]
[[Category:Albums produced by Dave Edmunds]]
[[Category:Albums recorded at Rockfield Studios]]

Twangin... - Revision history

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