Release 1982
Born half native indian as LINCOLN WRAY in 1929. Started with his first band the RAY MEN in 1955
playing country influenced Rockabilly.
His song RUMBLE recorded 1955 but first released in 1958 hit the charts in  the top 20, and is till today
a must have for every true collector, what a raw trashy guitar riff he had found.
From 1963 till 1970 he made many recordings but only singles saw the light of the day.
In 1971 a new album on Polydor, the first since 1963 was released and shows his country influence again
... this is very recommended.
From now on he released constantly albums on different labels like POLYDOR, VIRGIN; CHARISMA, LINE etc.
In 1977 and 1978 he recorded together with ROBERT GORDON  a Rockabilly - Punk singer.

Style:   Rockabilly  (Instr.) ; Country-Rock ;

see:
Commander Cody ; Robert Gordon ; Jerry Garcia - Grateful Dead ;
Peter Kaukonen ; Rob Stoner ;


Musicians:
Link Wray - guitars, vocals;
The RAY MEN :
Doug Wray - drums; Shorty Horton - bass; Vernon Wray, Joey Welz - keyboards;
1973:
Tom Salisbury, Commander Cody - piano, keyb.;
Rick Schlosser, Lance Dickerson  - drums; Chris Michie, David Bromberg - ac.-guitars;
Peter Kaukonen, John Dzerigian, Jerry Garcia, William Kirchen - guitars, pedal steel;
Paul Barlow, Kip Maercklein - bass; Andy Stein - fiddle; John McFee - guitar;
Jack Schroer, Jules Broussard - sax; Tom Harrell - trumpet; J.Rowell - trombone:
Dorothy Morrison, Barbara Mauritz, Diana Vaughns - back-voc.

Side 1    all songs by L.Wray  ... if not shown...
Mr. Guitar
My Beth
Deacon Jones
Steel Trap
Cross Ties
Jack the Ripper  (Wray-Cooper)
Teenage Cutie   (Alpert-Davis-Wray)
Youre my Song   (Baker-Williams-Wray-Davis)

Side 2
Fat Back
Run Chicken run  (Wray-Cooper)
Dinosaur
Big Ben
Mash Potato Party
Ill do Anything for you
Rendezvous  (Stevens)
Slinky  (Grant-Wray)

    Producer: Ray Vernon

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