4.Mystery Train / I Got a Woman / Baby Let's Play House: Mystery Train / I Got A Woman / Baby Let's Play House
5.Jack the Ripper
6.Love Me
7.King Creole
8.I'm Counting on You
9.Raw-Hide
10.Born to Be Wild
11.Climbing a High Wall
12.Genocide
13.The Earth Is Crying
14.Growlin' Guts
15.Hungry
16.Ace of Spades '69
17.Ruby Baby
18.Hang On
19.Summer Dreams
20.Sorrento
21.Peggy Sue
22.Alone
23.Girl from the North Country
24.You Hurt Me So
25.The Fuzz
Product Description:
Personnel: Link Wray (guitar); Marty Feier (drums); Keith Lentin (background vocals).
Recording information: America (01/1985-02/1985).
Photographers: Nick Garrard; Olive Wray; Ted Carroll.
Arranger: Link Wray.
One of Ace Records' superlative double-disc reissues of previously rare vinyl by the guitar god Link Wray, GROWLING GUITAR/LIVE IN 85 combines a pair of albums covering a more than two-decade span of Wray's career. LIVE IN 85 is just what the title suggests, an all-killer, no-filler live set that once and for all shows why instrumental acts are more fun to see on nostalgia tours: vocal chops can be lost pretty easily, but nobody suddenly starts sucking at playing guitar, especially not a master like the distortion-loving, feedback-mangling Wray. This is a fiery set, every bit as good as the 1961 live tracks on Norton's BIG CITY AFTER DARK archival release. The compilation GROWLING GUITAR is a more scattershot affair, gathering rare singles and previously unreleased tracks from the '60s to the '80s, including a surprising array of covers from the pens of Ray Charles, Bruce Springsteen, Leiber and Stoller and even Bob Dylan. Terrific stuff.
