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Link Wray: Link Wray [Reissue]

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May 31, 2018
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Link Wray

Link Wray

Future Days Recordings

Ask most people about Link Wray and they’ll reference his surf-guitar/heavy-metal prototype instrumental, Rumble; it rode back in on a wave of appreciation post-Pulp Fiction but had been relegated alongside other late 50s/early 60s guitar-twanging gunslingers like Duane Eddy and Dick Dale.

In 1971 the man born Fred…

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