Link Wray
Beans and Fatback
Originally released on Virgin Records in 1973. Now available as a gorgeously packaged deluxe vinyl edition, exclusively for Record Store Day 2017. Strictly limited to 2500 copies. Fred Lincoln ‘Link’ Wray, Jr. (1929-2005) born of Shawnee Native American parents was an American rock and roll guitarist, songwriter and vocalist who became popular in the late 1950s.Though he began in country music, his musical style went on to consist primarily of rock and roll, rockabilly and instrumental rock. Building on the distorted electric guitar sound of early records, his 1958 instrumental hit Rumble (banned in New York and Boston for fear it would incite teenage gang violence) popularized "the power chord” which laid the foundation to modern rock music.Building on the distorted electric guitar sound of early records, his 1958 instrumental hit Rumble (banned in New York and Boston for fear it would incite teenage gang violence) popularized "the power chord” which laid the foundation to modern rock music.This is where the ‘Beans and Fatback’ sessions were recorded in 1971, making it part of what we now know as the ‘Shack Trilogy’ together with the albums Link Wray and Mordicai Jones. Producer Steve Verroca had, allegedly, stolen the demo tapes of Beans and Fatback and sold them to Virgin Records who later withdrew the album. Beans and Fatback is made out of fantastic Americana blended blues, country, gospel, Native American chants, folk rock and traditionals such as Hobo Man and Georgia Pines (the latter a rewrite of Lead Belly’s In the Pines).
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