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Link Wray - Guitar Preacher (The Polydor Years)

"Fred Lincoln 'Link' Wray Jr (May 2, 1929 – November 5, 2005) was a rock and roll guitar 
player most noted for introducing a new sound for electric guitars in his major hit, the 
1958 instrumental "Rumble", by Link Wray and his Ray Men. Before Rumble, electric guitars 
were used to produce clean sounds and jazz chords. Wray pioneered fuzz-tone and was the 
first guitarist to use power chords to play a song's melody.

Pete Townshend stated in liner notes for a 1974 Wray album, "He is the king; if it hadn't been for 
Link Wray and 'Rumble,' I would have never picked up a guitar." Jeff Beck, Jimi Hendrix, Marc Bolan, 
Neil Young and Bob Dylan have all cited Wray as an influence. He was named as one of the hundred 
greatest guitarists of all time by Rolling Stone magazine, but still has not yet been inducted 
into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He is, however, a member of the Rockabilly Hall of Fame."

Disc 1:
01 La De Da   
02 Take Me Home Jesus   
03 Juke Box Mama   
04 Rise And Fall Of Jimmy Stokes   
05 Fallin' Rain   
06 Fire And Brimstone   
07 Ice People   
08 God Out West   
09 Crowbar   
10 Black River Swamp   
11 Tail Dragger   
12 Hobo Man   
13 I'm So Glad, I'm So Proud   
14 Georgia Pines   
15 Water Boy   
16 Alabama Electric Circus   
17 Take My Hand (Precious Lord) 

Disc 2:
01 Walkin' In The Arizona Sun   
02 Scorpio Woman   
03 All Because Of A Woman   
04 On The Run   
05 Days Before Custer   
06 Be What You Want To   
07 All Cried Out   
08 Tucson, Arizona   
09 River Bend   
10 You Walked By   
11 Walk Easy, Walk Slow   
12 Morning   
13 It Was A Bad Scene   
14 Good Time Joe   
15 Walkin' Bulldog   
16 I Got To Ramble   
17 Backwoods Preacher Man   
18 She's That Kind Of Woman   
19 Super 88   
20 Rumble 

Covers included