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Link Wray and the Wraymen - Slinky! The Epic Sessions '58-'61 (2002)

Link Wray and the Wraymen - Slinky! The Epic Sessions '58-'61 (2002)
  • Title: Slinky! The Epic Sessions '58-'61
  • Year Of Release: 2002
  • Label: Sundazed Music / Sony Music
  • Genre: Rock & Roll, Rockabilly
  • Quality: Flac (image, .cue, log)
  • Total Time: 53:03 + 57:45
  • Total Size: 531 Mb
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Tracklist:

CD 1:
01. Slinky
02. Mary Ann (alt. take)
03. Right Turn
04. Raw-Hide
05. Ramble
06. Ain't That Lovin' You Baby
07. Caroline
08. Studio Blues
09. Walkin' With Link
10. Dixie-Doodle
11. Radar
12. Oh Babe Be Mine (alt. take)
13. Lillian
14. Comanche
15. Dance Contest
16. Guitar Cha-Cha
17. Rumble Mambo
18. El Toro
19. Comanche (demo)
20. Right Turn (alt.take)
21. Lillian (alt. take)
22. Kiki
23. Moonlight Love

CD 2:
01. Handclapper
02. Mary Ann
03. Golden Strings
04. New Studio Blues
05. Rendezvous
06. Trail of the Lonesome Pine
07. Ramble (alt take)
08. Slinky (alt take)
09. Walkin' with Link (alt take)
10. Young and in Love (demo)
11. Stupid Pony
12. Goose Bumps
13. Scool Girl
14. Night Life
15. Slow Drag
16. New Studio Blues (alt take)
17. Golden Strings (demo)
18. Ain't That Lovin' You Baby (alt take)
19. If This is Wrong
20. Oh Babe be Mine
21. Radar (alt take)
22. Tijuana
23. Tenderl

While there was a 20-track 1992 compilation devoted to Wray's Epic work (Walkin' With Link), this two-CD, 46-song set more than doubles the volume. It not only sweeps up some stray previously released cuts that eluded the previous album, but also adds 17 previously unissued outtakes, demos, and alternates, along with rare singles by the Ponies, Doug Wray, and Bert & Ray, on which Link played. Wray's Epic output was not quite his peak; the slightly later period covered by Norton's Mr. Guitar anthology was more outstanding. Still, there's some fine string bending and distortion to be heard on these discs, though it doesn't contain the original hit version of "Rumble" (which was issued on Cadence, not Epic). If there are flaws, these are mostly relative. Wray doesn't get as unhinged as he did on his wildest sessions, and some of the cuts are samey sounding, routine instrumental workouts that get closer to Duane Eddy than was his usual wont. Still, you get some mighty cool ingeniously devious rockers like "Raw-Hide," "Walkin' With Link" (which explodes into the "Rumble" riff at the end), and "Comanche," while his occasional vocal workouts, like "Oh Babe Be Mine" and "Ain't That Lovin' You Baby," are some of the most sandpaper textured early rock & roll singing to be heard. There are also some weird detours into south of the border Tex-Mexisms on "Tijuana" (with a flute solo), "El Toro" (with mariachi horns), "Guitar Cha-Cha," and "Rumble Mambo," all of which sound like soundtracks to bullfights in which the matadors brandish switchblades and wear leather jackets. Some of the previously unreleased outtakes also brandish an odd sort of lounge sleaze ("Kiki" has a cheesy burlesque wah-wahing horn that has to be heard to be believed), while the hitherto unavailable "Moonlight Love" is a surprisingly effective sort of raw Henry Mancini-meets-untutored-Duane Eddy ballad with strings.


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  • mufty77
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Many thanks for lossless.
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  • Thorsen
  •  wrote in 18:06
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Many Thanks!