Ready to Rumble

I first heard Link Wray’s “Fire and Brimstone” on a Neville Brothers album, and of course they gave it the Full Neville, a richly textured barn burner. But Wray’s original version is pure hand-made wildness, recorded on a 3-track in a shack. And yeah, that’s foot-stomping and a can of nails being shook in lieu of drums. One of the great indigenous rockers screaming down to his roots.