Link Wray - Trail of the Sonesome Pine download song

I caught Link, for the 1st & last time, in NYC on May 10, 2005 at BB King's club on 42nd St. Given his age, as well as the energy & chops supporting band behind him, it was one of the most ass-kicking rock n' roll shows I've ever witnessed. Link is greatly missed in this corner!

Link's best stuff was the instrumentals he recorded for Swan Records from 1963 - 1966. Get the Rhino records CD "Rumble: The Best Of Link Wray" for an overview of those, and if you want to dig deeper (trust me you will!), check out Norton records & Ace records CDs, which have a slew of rare lp, single & previously unreleased tracks. Enjoy!

This song is available on the Link Wray double CD set "Slinky! The Epic Sessions"

Good luck prying it from Dick Clark's clutched hands!

WOW! I knew that Jack Spector had a music show on WPRO..just never saw it 'til NOW! Leave it to Jack..to have hosted Link Wray..he loved breaking artists and their hits! Jack Spector was also a WMCA "Good Guy"..for years and was on air at all of NYC's heavy hitter radio statiions. His last was to be WHLI on Long Island..he passed while on the air. A wonderful story teller..joke teller..a sweet and gentle man. I was blessed to call him friend. Jack's closing: "Look Out Street..Here I Come" RIP

Unless someone from Channel 5 in Washington, DC comes up with kinescopes of Link on the "Milt Grant Show".

I assume that's the same Jack Spector who later was one of the "Good Guys" rock'n'roll DJs on NYC's WMCA (570 AM) -- the station I grew up with. Spector was one of those incredible guys who was 100% articulate even when talking a mile a minute!

I wonder if he used that Danelectro guitar on the original recording...! Very cool tone

at 1:16... link drops his pick, stops playing and picks it up... without a break in the music. LOL Synched song☺

heh heh dropped his pleccy doh!

This sounds exactly like the version on the Slinky! sessions cd. Could Link be not even actually playing here? I know others back then did... Link is still the man either way.

It's a "lip synch". Very common on TV appearances for music artists into the 1970s.

Golly Gee, this was swell!

I Like this song...First time I heard it was here. I'm a Danelectro freak, so seing a Longhorn was really cool

"Trail Of The Lonesome Pine" comes from Link's short, unhappy stint with Columbia's Epic Records, who tried to tone him down, and clean him up into the semi-respectable teen guitar picker you see here. Wish there were some clips out there of Link on the "Milt Grant Show" in DC...

I think it's hilarious that even though he's "lip-synching" he reaches down out of the frame to pick up the guitar pick that he dropped instead of just being cool and faking it...