Wray's Three Track Shack [Import]

Link Wray | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 2, 2005)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Import
• Label: Acadia Records
• ASIN: B00097HDSG
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #105,582 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. de Da

2. Take Me Home Jesus

3. Juke Box Mama

4. Rise and Fall of Jimmy Stokes

5. Fallin' Rain

6. Fire and Brimstone

7. Ice People

8. God Out West

9. Crowbar

10. Black River Swamp

See all 17 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. Water Boy

2. From Tulsa to North Caroline

3. Right or Wrong (You Lose)

4. In the Pines

5. Take My Hand (Precious Lord)

6. Walkin' in the Arizona Sun

7. Scorpio Woman

8. The Coca Cola Sign Blinds My Eyes

9. All I Want to Say

10. All Because of a Woman

See all 15 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

In the early 1970's the legendary Link Wray made a critical comeback with the much vaunted 'Link Wray' album on the then recently launched US Polydor Label. Recorded in a shack in the middle of a Maryland wood the primitive sound stood out amongst the 'High Tech' recording being released at that time. altogether three albums were recorded in this way including 'Beans & Fatback' (Released on the then new Virgin label in the UK) and the only known album by 'Mordicai Jones' a mysterious figure who takes lead vocal on an album which is a Link Wray album in all but name. Three full albums on two CD's. Acadia. 2005.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Towering Momento, July 26, 2006

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R. J MOSS (Alice Springs, Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Wray's Three Track Shack (Audio CD)

How I've sweated on the re-release of the epigymous, Link Wray album, one of the early 70s masterpieces of Americana, rich and raw in a way 'The Band's' lauded albums could only simulate. Like liner notesman, John Collins, I picked up Wray's early music in remainder bins. John Fogerty, even Lonnie Mack, were better received, striking similar grooves. But Link was right out there, quiveringly, his own man.'Fire & Brimstone', an enduring favourite, has the power of an incantation; stupendous vocals from a one-lunged man!. Collins notes 'in the late 60s there was a studied attempt by such musicians as The Band,Neil Young, Guy Clark and David Ackles, all in their own way, to evoke a rock'n'roll vision of Americana, of white clapboard chapels, dungareed farmers, dusty drifters and outlaws.' But Wray and his two brothers weren't aping any mystical, mythical rural past...from the outside looking in. They weren't even speaking for the white-man poor. They were by his own admission,'Shawnee poor'. His vernacular is, up and down, the rockin' truth, no prisoners taken. The menacing throb he pulls from Willie Dixon's,'Tail Dragger' exemplifies his own take on the Blues. This dizziness subsides with the lovely mandolin interlude of,'Beans and Fatbatback' before the full-on rocker,'I'm So Glad' is unleashed. Neighbours beware. You wouldn't want to be duelling with these dudes.'Shawnee tribe' is simply magnificent, ripping into the heart of a remembered past, a wordless humming, intermittently augmented with some barking acoustics. This is everything that Robbie Robertson's explorations of his indigenous roots lacks. I wonder what they played at Link's funeral? May he rest in peace.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Forget what you think you know about Link Wray, February 21, 2006

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A. Woodley "A Stooge" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Wray's Three Track Shack (Audio CD)

Maybe if the Rolling Stones had been Americans or Captain Beefheart had been a country boy they could have cut a piece of raw Americana like this. It is unlike anything you have ever heard before but yet it is strangly familiar. You already know Link Wray's reputation on the guitar but this album takes it a step further. His guitar sound is more raw and gnarly than ever before. His voice is rough and pure. Discover yourself, rock-n-roll, and save your soul all at the same time.

13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars REAL Roots Music, September 19, 2005

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M. Brust (Denton, TX United States) - See all my reviews
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There is really nothing else like these recordings. A can of nails and whatever else is laying around gets used to flesh out these heartfelt,soulful tunes. Non-repeatable--unbeatable acoustic homemade music---don't miss it.