Link Wray – Guitar Preacher (The Polydor Years)

 

If all you know of Link Wray is Rumble, you missed out on his mid career recordings of roots music. Link and his brothers grew up dirt poor so this is not the polite roots music of suburban kids studying roots music at an upscale college....this is real and raw. The four albums these tracks come from are out of print and can fetch a good price on the collectors market. 

The rock and roll music on this compilation of songs is excellent. Link Wray was a rock and roll pioneer who inspired many other musicians with his great music. I highly recommend this compilation to fans of Link and to anyone who has not heard much of his music. There are lots of surprises here and the tunes are very well recorded and feature such Bay Area legends and icons as Commander Cody and Jerry Garcia. If you like Link Wray's stuff you will want to have this collection as it does a great job of covering this period of his career. 

This 2CD collection is also hard to find and is a must for Link Wray and guitar music fans alike.

Disc One

1-1 La De Da 4:01

1-2 Take Me Home Jesus 3:18

1-3 Juke Box Mama 4:26

1-4 Rise And Fall Of Jimmy Stokes 4:00

1-5 Fallin' Rain 3:43

1-6 Fire And Brimstone 4:18

1-7 Ice People 3:03

1-8 God Out West 3:52

1-9 Crowbar 4:45

1-10 Black River Swamp 3:56

1-11 Tail Dragger 4:30

1-12 Hobo Man 3:51

1-13 I'm So Glad, I'm So Proud 6:52

1-14 Georgia Pines 3:54

1-15 Water Boy 9:40

1-16 Alabama Electric Circus 3:57

1-17 Take My Hand (Precious Lord) 3:35

Disc Two

2-1 Walkin' In The Arizona Sun 2:51

2-2 Scorpio Woman 3:44

2-3 All Because Of A Woman 3:18

2-4 On The Run 5:42

2-5 Days Before Custer 4:01

2-6 Be What You Want To 5:56

2-7 All Cried Out 3:48

2-8 Tucson, Arizona 4:14

2-9 River Bend 2:38

2-10 You Walked By 3:16

2-11 Walk Easy, Walk Slow 5:19

2-12 Morning 2:01

2-13 It Was A Bad Scene 3:32

2-14 Good Time Joe 3:59

2-15 Walkin' Bulldog 3:09

2-16 I Got To Ramble 4:39

2-17 Backwoods Preacher Man 4:00

2-18 She's That Kind Of Woman 4:02

2-19 Super 88 3:28

2-20 Rumble 2:35

Disc One

Tracks 1 to 11 taken from the album "Link Wray", released May 1971.

Tracks 12 to 17 taken from the album "Beans And Fatback", previously unreleased in the US.

Disc Two

Tracks 1 to 5 taken from the album "Mordicai Jones", released 1971.

Tracks 6 to 12 taken from the album "Be What You Want To", released 1973.

Tracks 13 to 20 taken from the album "The Link Wray Rumble", released 1974.

Link Wray – Guitar Preacher