Link Wray sings - Wray's Three Track Shack
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Wray's Three Track Shack is a two-CD set which reissues three albums Link Wray cut between 1971 and 1973, recorded in a primitive home studio on his Maryland farm - Link Wray, Beans & Fatback, and Mordecai Jones (the latter, in essence, a Link Wray album though pianist Bobby Howard, aka Mordicai Jones, took top billing).
The music on 1971's Link Wray bears little resemblance to Wray's classic work, sounding more like a funky country blues set than anything else, with Wray playing as much acoustic guitar as electric, and pianos and mandolins adding a warm and down-home mood to the songs. If the approach is different, and Wray's rough but emphatic vocals establish this as a different animal from his early instrumental hits, there's an unapologetically raw and unpolished energy that sets this apart from the standard issue roots-music work of the day, and there's no questioning the passion and heart in these tunes, which often recall a childhood growing up poor and Native-American in the deep South.
Comments (3)
Your description captured this performance's qualities quite well. That cover looks familiar, and asks me why I didn't buy the album back in the day, fan of his early instrumentals that I am. Thanks for sharing it with us.
Oops I should have said, I copied and pasted the description! Also the album cover I posted is just for his self titled album, three track shack includes this album and two others, all of which he sings on.
I really love the mood of the songs and hes got a great voice, I'd place it somewhere between Waits and Beefheart
His voice is less mannered than their's are, which is good.