Radioshow Reggie Johnson
From the Soundboard #378 [Link Wray]

From the Soundboard is a show that usually focuses on concerts regardless of genre. Where the artist and/or group perfecting the art of the “call and response” with its audience. On Wednesday, April 10 @ 3 am, the show will pay tribute to an unsung guitar hero of Rock and a Shawnee Native. He was born Fred Lincoln Wray, Jr. but the world knew him simply as Link Wray.

"Quite simply, Link Wray invented the power chord, the major modus operandi of modern rock guitarists. Listen to any of the tracks he recorded between that landmark instrumental in 1958 through his Swan recordings in the early '60s and you'll hear the blueprints for heavy metal, thrash, you name it. Though rock historians always like to draw a nice, clean line between the distorted electric guitar work that fuels early blues records to the late-'60s Hendrix-Clapton-Beck-Page-Townshend mob, with no stops in between, a quick spin of any of the sides Wray recorded during his golden decade punches holes in that theory right quick." [Cub Koda - All Music Guide]