Link Wray - Link Wray

Future Days Recordings

£30.76

Format: LP
Catalogue No.: FDR633
Barcode: 826853063319
Release Date: July 2021
Genre: Rock / Folk / Country

First official vinyl reissue.
Second pressing housed in a standard gatefold jacket.
New liner notes by Chris Morris.
Newly remastered.
Recorded in a shaky makeshift chicken shack in rural Maryland, Link Wray’s eponymous 1971 solo album is a compelling and forward-looking piece of honest, handmade Americana.

Link, along with brothers Vernon and Doug began playing together professionally in 1942, their rowdy instrumental single “Rumble” charting at number 16 in 1958. Following a string of hits on Philadelphia-based Swan Records, Vernon began to serve as the family’s producer, eventually starting his own studio; first in the basement of his home and then–after his wife Evelyn complained about the noise–in a converted shack on the property. It was there that Link, Vernon and producer Steve Verroca found a sound that marked “a return to simplicity.” This carefully remastered reissue will take you right back to that chicken shack, and to sessions so electric you can almost feel the atmosphere.

Tracklist:
La De Da, Take Me Home Jesus, Juke Box Mama, Rise And Fall Of Jimmy Stokes, Fallin' Rain, Fire And Brimstone, Ice People, God Out West, Crowbar, Black River Swamp, Tail Dragge