LINK WRAY rockabilly LP “Beans & Fatback” on VIRGIN orig ’73 + poster SEALED

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Artist:   LINK WRAY

Title:   “Beans and Fatback ”

Label:   VIRGIN ~ V2006.  Original stereo pressing. 

Year:  1973.

Condition: 

Album is STILL SEALED in factory shrink-wrap.  The shrink-wrap has original hype sticker on the front at upper left.  Shrink wrap is fully intact except cut down the entirety of the right edge on the front.  Not a cut-out. 

NOTE:  This album came from the extensive personal collection of the former owner of a chain of retail music stores who retired from the business in the early 80’s.  The albums have been stored virtually untouched and unplayed since that time in a climate controlled, non-smoking environment.  We are in the process of selling many investment grade coloured vinyl LPs, promos, sealed LPs, and other rare collector items from the collection over the coming months.  If you insist on MINT albums, you will not be disappointed.

Track Listing:

Side 1:

• Beans and Fatback
• I’m So Glad
• Shawnee Tribe
• Hobo Man
• Georgia Pines
• Alabama Electric Circus

Side 2:

• Water Boy
• From Tulsa to North Caroline
• Right or Wrong (You Lose)
• In the Pines
• Take My Hand (Precious Lord)

Review:

“Largely recorded the same time as Link Wray's self-titled 1971 comeback album, Beans and Fatback was more playful and harder-rocking set than the country- and blues-flavored album that announced Wray's return to active duty.  The loopy title cut started the album on a jew's-harp-infused jug band note, and "I'm So Glad, I'm So Proud" was exactly the sort of showcase for Wray's trademark rumbling guitar that the previous album lacked.  Elsewhere, songs such as "Hobo Man" and "Georgia Pines" (the latter a rewrite of Leadbelly's In the Pines") followed the roots-oriented pattern of Link Wray, but with a stronger backbone and a lot more wallop; if both albums sound like they came from a studio housed in a chicken shack on a rundown Maryland farm, Beans and Fatback seems to have been born during a Saturday night rave-up, and goes a lot farther toward fusing the rowdy howl of Wray's early instrumental hits with the back-to-the-land flavor of his more personal 1971 set.  If Beans and Fatback suffers in comparison to Link Wray, it's in the lack of the deeper and more emotionally resonant undercurrents that carried the 1971 album; as good as these songs are, they don't have the same impact as, say, "Fire and Brimstone" or "Take Me Home Jesus."  But as a pure listening experience, Beans and Fatback is plenty satisfying, and offers more rock & roll bang for the buck than Wray's other work from this period.  Virgin's original LP release of Beans and Fatback also included a free piece of dried fatback as a "bonus" -- yummy!”  

(courtesy Mark Deming, allmusic.com.)

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