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  How the Garage-Rock Anthem “Louie Louie” Became the Subject of a Lengthy FBI Investigation (1964)

  

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EqzTiDc-1k Rock and roll history is built on happy accidents, moments where enthusiasm and raw talent exceed the limits of technology. Distortion, the sine qua non of modern rock, came from broken amplifiers and mixing boards, and speakers slashed to ribbons. Such excesses can be threatening. Link Wray’s gritty 1958 instrumental “Rumble” earned a ban from […]

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  Watch Link Wray Play a Downright Dirty Version of “Rumble,” the Only Instrumental to Be Banned on Radio (1974)

  

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFCpUZVyXgg It takes a lot of swagger and confidence to play a couple of bar chords...

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFCpUZVyXgg It takes a lot of swagger and confidence to play a couple of bar chords on a guitar, look like the coolest cat doing so, and revolutionize rock music while doing so. That’s Link Wray we’re talking about, and the song is the 1958 instrumental hit “Rumble.” It still sounds fresh today for the […] Watch Link Wray Play a Downright Dirty Version...

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  The Story of “Wipe Out,” the Classic Surf Rock Instrumental

  

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  “Not all genres in music are self-explanatory,” writes Mark Stock at The Manual. “Just ask baroque...

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  Hear an Enchanted Medieval Cover of Dolly Parton’s Classic Ode to Jealousy, “Jolene”

  

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  Dolly Parton’s “Jolene” is an endlessly renewable resource of beautiful sadness, and many a modern-day bard...

  Dolly Parton’s “Jolene” is an endlessly renewable resource of beautiful sadness, and many a modern-day bard has a “Jolene” in their quiver. The White Stripes turned it into garage rock, Olivia Newton John did it as disco, and Norah Jones as cabaret jazz. There is the obligatory house remix. Slow it down to 33rpm and […] Hear an Enchanted Medieval Cover of Dolly Parton’s...

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