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youtube URL Source:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAchKt2xjsw Published:Dec 15, 2005 Author:tribal328 Post Date:2007-12-23 21:52:04 by wudidiz Keywords:None Views:1213 Comments:59
"Goodtime Joe" by Link Wray. I can't find it anywhere. It's a crime that album with Goodtime Joe,Rocket 88,and Backwoods Preacher Man hasn't been put back into production.
If you ain't heard Link Wray play Goodtime Joe,you ain't heard rock and roll guitar.
"Goodtime Joe" by Link Wray. I can't find it anywhere. It's a crime that album with Goodtime Joe,Rocket 88,and Backwoods Preacher Man hasn't been put back into production.
If you ain't heard Link Wray play Goodtime Joe,you ain't heard rock and roll guitar.
Yeah,that's the man. If you ever get a chance to buy his 1973 Polydor album that is titled,"Link Wray Rumble",buy it! I think it went out of print in 74,and has never been re-released. I finally wore out my second copy,and the only new one I could find was in Germany,and I had to pay 130 bucks for the damn thing! If you had any idea how cheap I am,that would really mean something to you. I never paid even $20 for a album before or since.
BTW,seems like he put out a couple of albums with "Rumble" in the title because it was his best known hit. If it doesn't have Goodtime Joe,Backwood Preacher Man,or Rocket 88 on it,it's not the right one.
I've never been able to find it either,but a friend of mine did find just that one song one time at one of those download sites. He just couldn't remember which one when I asked him.
What is the oddest is that "Link Wray Rumble" was his best album and his best selling album. Yet it is the one that has never been re-released.
It was pretty good. Did you do that? If you did,how about look up and post some clips by Cliff Carlisle? He's the guy that does that "Footprints in the Snow" song that is used in the tv add for outdoor clothes. I vaguely remembered hearing him when I was a kid,and that commercial caused me to do some research on him. Do you know that white hillbilly was writing and recording blues songs in the early 1930's? That Footprints in the Snow tune was recorded by him in 1931! He was famous for yodeling and playing a dobro. Ever heard somebody yodel during a blues song before?
Look for: Hobo Blues,Columbus Stockade Blues (one I heard as a kid),High Steppin Mama,A Wild Cat Woman and a Tom Cat Man,My Rockin Mama,and others. This is root blues stuff,fresh out of bluegrass.
You can really hear his "let's go to church/bluegrass" roots in his voice,can't you? This is seriously old-time country and blues.
He can also play the hell out of that dobro. This style is so different from what we are all used to hearing that it may take a while to adjust to it,but there is no doubting the musical ability of the players,though. It was simple,unsophisticated music played in the 1930's but it was performed flawlessly.