When Link Wray recorded “Rumble” in early 1958, most rock-and-roll guitarists were doing everything they could to avoid distortion. Wray did the opposite, unabashedly leaning into it and, in the ...
On this day (November 5) in 2005, Link Wray died of heart failure in his Copenhagen, Denmark, home. Over the years, his music ventured into country, rockabilly, garage rock, and hard rock. He ...
Link Wray's effect on the use of electric guitar was as singular as his moniker. Wray, credited as the creator of the "power chord" died Nov. 5 of unknown causes at his home in Copenhagen, Denmark. He ...
From the late 1950s to the late 1970s, rock ‘n’ rollers were taking the formula for what they already knew a six-string electric could do and pushing the boundaries one notch further. Musicians were ...
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