I loved Link's collaboration with singer Robert Gordon back in the 70s. 
Link's solos on two old Sun classics, "Red Hot" and "Flying Saucers Rock and 
Roll," were blistering.

A time of mourning at Norton Records, and for rockers everywhere.

Steve
---- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Coxe" <audities@gmail.com>
To: <president@bullseyecanada.com>; <audities@smoe.org>
Sent: Monday, November 21, 2005 3:29 PM
Subject: Re: Link Wray - RIP


> On Jaimie Vernon  wrote:
>> Guitarist Link Wray, who was said to have invented the power chord, the
>> major modus operandi of modern rock guitarists, has died in Copenhagen. 
>> He
>> was 76. A native of Dunn, N.C.
>
> My family was living in Dunn when The Rumble was released in 1958.
> It was all over the radio. Wray was already a local legend, as he &
> his brothers
> had local groups until moving to Norfolk, VA in the early 50's. My much 
> older
> half-brothers - as kids - had seen a Wray band perform and referred to 
> them as
> "those crazy Lumbees" (the Wrays were part indian, Lumbees were the
> indeginous tribe & tho Wray claimed to be part Shawnee or Cherokee,
> most locals assumed Lumbee).
>
> Dunn was a WILD place. A dry. Baptist county, thus lots of bootlegging 
> (the
> Harnett county sherriff's brother was #1). I remember that for years there 
> was
> a 10 mile stretch of Interstate 95 that stood alone 10 miles from Dunn (ie
> built as one of the first sections but never tied into the system) which 
> became
> a pime drag racing spot in early 60's. My brother totaled our Studebaker
> Champion on that road to nowhere.
>
> - michael
>
>