Guitar Preacher: Polydor Years

Link Wray | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 22, 1995)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Label: Polygram Records
• ASIN: B000001EEZ
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #398,153 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Compilation of the Polydor years, August 10, 2010

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J. Melancon - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Guitar Preacher: Polydor Years (Audio CD)

Contains the full LINK WRAY LP (11 cuts) and:

From BEANS AND FATBACK
-Hobo Man
-I'm So Glad, I'm So Proud
-Georgia Pines
-Water Boy
-Alabama Electric Circus
-Take My Hand (Precious Lord)

From MORDICAI JONES
-Walkin' In The Arizona Sun
-Scorpio Woman
-All Because Of A Woman
-On The Run
-Days Before Custer

From BE WHAT YOU WANT TO
-Be What You Want To
-All Cried Out
-Tucson, Arizona
-River Bend
-You Walked By
-Walk Easy, Walk Slow
-Morning

From THE LINK WRAY RUMBLE
-It Was A Bad Scene
-Good Time Joe
-Walkin' Bulldog
-I Got To Ramble
-Backwoods Preacher Man
-She's That Kind Of Woman
-Super 88
-Rumble

Notes by Colin Escott; reprints Pete Townshend's liner notes for THE LINK WRAY RUMBLE (20th March 1974)

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars similar to wray's three track shack with be what you want to cuts, September 20, 2010

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bob e. (honolulu,hi) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Guitar Preacher: Polydor Years (Audio CD)

buy wray's three track shack first to get the best for the least money. be what you want to isn't on that release,but it isn't as important as the three albums on wray's three track shack. my preference is for these folk/funk rockers rather than his much released instrumental rockabilly guitar which seems one-dimensional in comparison. the be what you want to material is sort of upbeat easy-listening and essential for completists who want all dimensions of this low-key,pioneering,humanistic artist who served his country in korea and then worked his tail off opening for jerry garcia,etc. i completely missed his mordicai jones album and foolishly passed on trying beans and fatback, but his link wray album was enough to always keep him in mind until i bought this double cd and discovered the excellent ripping rock unlike the vast majority of available rock albums. the man had much to say and a complex idea of how to deliver it on recordings. >>>>>>>>>>amazon has me in 'bad standing' comment-wise, so this is my comment-within-a-review: t. johansson & j. melancon note on the wrays' three-track shack cd amazon page that: 'take my hand, precious lord' has been omitted and 'waterboy' cut from 9:40 to 6:12 length on that cd and, in their place, 'backwoods preacherman' from the album link wray rumble substituted. >>>>>>>>>>polydor should pay attention and restore the cut material and generously retain 'backwoods preacherman'. i suggest their key people listen to 'waterboy' in its entirety. wray's non-rockabilly output is 'precious' and must be kept available for posterity if at all possible. just as charles ives and alfred schnittke have their classical-music concepts preserved as essential music, so should wray's visionary american roots rock music be enshrined in the catalog/marketplace. it is a cultural injustice to allow wray's rockabilly product to smother public awareness of his more intellectually-based folk material. it is a resource to be treasured and respected for its beauty and clarity.

5.0 out of 5 stars REAL roots music, October 16, 2011

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D. Webb - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Guitar Preacher: Polydor Years (Audio CD)

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 our out of pring and cost a fortunre on Ebay or Amazon so this is the best way to hear the music. Sadly it appers this set is also out of print but there are affordable options for purchasing it. I never tire of this music.