"Rumble"/"The Swag" - LINK WRAY & His RAY MEN - Orig 45 rpm Record
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Here is LINK WRAY & HIS RAY MEN with their 1958 hit single: "Rumble" (#16 on Billboard's Hot 100) and "The Swag", on an Original 45 rpm record on the Cadence label. "New Old Stock" from the leftover inventory of a music store that closed in the mid to late '60's.
Fred Lincoln "Link" Wray, Jr. (May 2, 1929 – November 5, 2005) was a rock and roll guitarist, songwriter, and vocalist who became popular in the late 1950s.
Wray's first hit was the 1958 instrumental "Rumble". It popularized "the power chord, the major modus operandi of modern rock guitarists," facilitating the emergence of "punk and heavy rock". The record was first released on Cadence Records (catalog number 1347) as by "Link Wray & His Ray Men".
Before, during, and after his stints with major labels Epic and Swan, Wray released 45s under many names. Tiring of the corporate music machine, he began recording albums using a three-track studio he converted from an outbuilding on his brother's property. He toured and recorded two albums with retro-rockabilly artist Robert Gordon in the late 1970s. The 1980s to the present day saw a large number of reissues as well as new material. One member of his band in the 1980s, drummer Anton Fig, later became drummer in the CBS Orchestra on the Late Show with David Letterman. In 1994, he played on four songs of the album Chatterton by French rocker Alain Bashung. He went on to release two albums of new music: Shadowman (1997) and Barbed Wire (2005). Recently discovered recordings were slated to be released in 2018.
Rolling Stone placed Wray at No. 45 of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time. In 2013 and 2017 he was a nominee for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Though he began in country music, his musical style went on to consist primarily of rock and roll, rockabilly, and instrumental rock.
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