Link Wray (studio album)
by Link Wray
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Link Wray bestography
Link Wray is ranked as the best album by Link Wray.
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Link Wray track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 78 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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75/100  | 12/23/2024 09:44 |  HelsinkiSnorkel | | 79/100 |
75/100 | 04/28/2023 16:09 | replacementlevel | | 70/100 |
75/100 | 08/23/2021 13:38 | matterhornrider | | 81/100 |
75/100 | 04/05/2021 17:02 | TonySayers61 | | 64/100 |
80/100 | 12/16/2020 04:08 |  eric_005 | | 76/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 7% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 75.3/100, a mean average of 76.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 76.6/100. The standard deviation for this album is 11.5.
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Holy Christ, this is good! It's like a one-man "Exile on Main Street" a year before "Exile on Main Street"!
If you like that swampy gritty rootsy voodoo blues/country/soul, it don't get any better than this. Fans of Zeppelin's earthier material (III and IV) will definitely dig this. A couple of the songs sound like the blueprint for that stompin' barroom piano vibe the White Stripes were shooting for on "Get Behind Me Satan". Many of the songs also include ghostly backing vocals that add a uniquely eerie, haunting atmosphere to the proceedings. The album is somewhat similar to the style that Tony Joe White and Leon Russell were working around the same time, but this is better than anything either of them ever did. There's not one weak track here, and it all has a timeless quality that holds up remarkably well. Why isn't this album more renowned??!??
Great stuff. Hidden gem. Link should be up there with the big boys.
I reckon this album flew under the radar because of the time it was released; a time when a few huge international acts were getting everyone's attention. Equally, at a time when western rock music was exploring prog rock and heavy metal, perhaps a revisiting of traditional blues and americana music wasn't in high demand.
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