Sundazed Music Inc.
2006
White Lightning: Lost Cadence Sessions '58
About This Album
Link Wray's huge rattling guitar sound was partially due to various health problems. A childhood bout with measles left him partially deaf so that when he took up the guitar he had to play the instrument extremely loud to hear it properly. Then as a young man he contracted TB and lost a lung, which meant he couldn't sing, so he turned to guitar instrumentals as his musical stock in trade. But Wray was no typical 1950s guitar player. His relentless search for edgier, dirtier guitar tones made him the Godfather of modern rock guitar, and his rumbling, careening and decidedly electric guitar playing still sounds stunningly alive and fresh even five decades on from his first recordings. The song that jump-started Wray's recording career, the left-field instrumental "Rumble," was released by Archie Bleyer's Cadence Records in 1955, and even though Bleyer had nothing but disgust for Wray's sound and approach, he set him up in Edgewood Studio in Washington, D.C. to record material for a projected LP, finally dropping Wray's contract altogether early in 1959, and then shelved the master tapes from the D.C. sessions. Wray went on to sign with Epic Records and further refine (a word that doesn't seem to fit comfortably in a sentence with the name Link Wray) his cone-rattling guitar sound, and all concerned forgot about the Cadence album sessions.
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