Title: Link Wray & The Raymen – Great Guitar Hits
Year/Genre: 1960, Rock & Roll
Condition: New

Cultural Facts:

1. Link Wray, a Shawnee guitarist raised in North Carolina and Virginia, helped introduce heavy amp distortion and power chords into early rock.

2. His instrumental “Rumble” was so associated with juvenile gangs that several U.S. radio stations banned it, one of the only instrumentals ever pulled for being “dangerous.”

3. These sides capture the raw, echo-drenched 1950s/early-’60s singles that later generations of garage, surf, and punk musicians treated as a blueprint.