Link Wray

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Putzing around looking at chord charts when I ran across Link Ray's Fire and Brimstone. Catchy, simple chord progression, dire lyrics. I looked it up on Seeqpod and was "rewarded" with some barely audible bottleneck guitar.
Did he do other versions of this song, or is this the only one?

 

[Walter Broes]

Re: Link Ray

That's Link Wray with a "W". I'm not thàt familiar with his post-instrumental stuff, but according to this discography : http://koti.mbnet.fi/wdd/linkwray5.htm it's on a 1971 Polydor LP. I do remember hearing "Fire and Brimstone" at a friend's house once, and you have a pretty good chance of finding it on vinyl I think - I've seen quite a few of his 70's albums second hand, they're not nearly as sought after as his earlier recordings.

 

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Yeah, rookie mistake on the spelling.

The image that came to mind was that it was music to handle snakes to.

 

[Walter Broes]

I hadn't seen your reply Steve, sorry - when Link grabs that Whammy bar, he does tend to go nuts - snake charmer vibe indeed!!

Update on the tune though - totally by coincidence, I was at yet another friend's place last week, and heard a (fairly recent and pretty great) version of "Fire and Brimstone" by the Neville Brothers! I'll ask my buddy for the title of the CD if you're interested.

 

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That would be great!
Thanks!

 

[Darryl Hattenhauer]

Rumble!

 

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So's yer old man!

Yellow Moon is the Neville Brothers album, me thinks.