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Link Wray's incredible influence on 50 years of rock and roll following his debut single is no mystery to anyone. Everything that was handed down to today's current crop of head-bangers from the likes of Led Zeppelin and The Who can be traced back to this hero from Dunn, North Carolina. This LP compiles rare and unissued cuts, demos, and B-sides from his early, and best, years on the Cadence and Epic labels. Here is the material upon which Wray's unique reputation was built.
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This is the album that Link Wray originally offered to the Cadence label in the wake of his groundbreaking debut hit "Rumble" back in 1958. Even though people loved 'em in Washington, D.C., Link and the boys did not last long on the label. Faster than you can say "Rumble," everyone was talking about the new threat to the morals of American youth. Their street image seemed to be sharply at odds with Cadence's formality, so the guys were dropped. Link eventually re-recorded some of the tracks for his next label, Epic, who actually released his debut album in 1960 (RUM 2011003LP), but these are the original Cadence versions from the original session tapes.
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2015 repress. "Collecting both sides of his first three epic singles along with half a dozen other numbers, Link Wray's all-instrumental 1959 debut album introduces to the world the power chord, the basis of modern rock guitar-playing without which punk rock or heavy metal would never have existed. Such classics as 'Rumble' (featured in the film Pulp Fiction), his astonishing version of Duane Eddy's classic 'Raw Hide,' 'Dixie Doodle,' or 'Comanche' were about to influence fifty years of rock and roll to come."
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