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2CD set of 3 complete early 70s LPs all recorded in the shack on the cover! 'Link Wray', 'Beans & Fatback' & 'Mordicai Jones'
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
"Wray's Three Track Shack" is a compilation of three of Link's albums from the 70s, "Link Wray", "Beans & Fatback" and "Mordicai Jones". I bought the eponymous record in the early 70s after hearing the Howlin' Wolf track "Tail dragger" on the 'Old Grey Whistle test' and really liking its raw, earthy sound. The record was recorded on Link's home-made 3-track (count 'em 1-2-3!?!) studio in a chicken shack and contains other raw gems in a similar style, a mixture of rock, blues and country. I really like the tracks "Fire and Brimstone" (which was covered by the Neville Brothers), "Juke Box Mama" "Crow Bar" and the dog-rough version of Leadbelly's "In the pines", which sounds like the White Stripes/Black Keys. My favourite track is "Black River Swamp", a slow, plaintive ballad that somehow manages to have the best stereo separation I've ever heard.
3 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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First of all I must say that I really like these albums and to have them on CD. The Mordecai Jones is very rare and I hadn't heard it before. I would give this package 5 stars if it wasn't for this fatal mistake. "Take My Hand (Precious Lord)" from "Beans and Fatback" have been replaced by "Backwoods Preacher Man" from "The Link Wray Rumble". Is it a coincidence that "Take My Hand (Precious Lord)" is track 17 CD1 on the compilation "The Polydor Years" and "Backwoods Preacher Man" is track 17 on CD2? I think they used this compilation as a master for some if this tracks and put in the wrong CD!
6 of 12 people found the following review helpful
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To listen to Link Wray is to understand the word music..to find these tracks on one album is a rare treat as they were only ever available on a very rare piece of vinyl... Found this by sheer chance and would urge any fan of this type of music that this is a golden nugget in the mountains of cds available
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