Collecting both sides of his first three EPIC singles along with half a dozen other numbers, Link Wray's all-instrumental 1959 debut album introduces to the world the power chord, the basis of modern rock guitar-playing without which punk rock or heavy metal would never have existed. Such classics as "Rumble" (featured in the film Pulp Fiction!), his astonishing version of Duane Eddy's classic "Raw Hide", "Dixie Doodle" or "Comanche" were about to influence fifty years of rock and roll to come.
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