In an effort to help Link Wary get elected into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Black Keys frontman Dan Auerbach has just released the guitar pioneer's never-before-heard track "Son of Rumble" via his ...

When Link Wray recorded “Rumble” in early 1958, most rock-and-roll guitarists were doing everything they could to avoid distortion. Wray did the opposite, unabashedly leaning into it and, in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The latest batch of Rock & Roll Hall of Fame nominees has plenty of chart-topping household names, including Kiss, Nirvana and ...

Guitar master Link Wray, the father of the power chord in rock ‘n’ roll who inspired such legends as Bruce Springsteen, David Bowie and Pete Townshend, has died. He was 76. Wray died Nov. 5 at his ...

Born in 1929, Link Wray made some of the most blistering rock 'n' roll of all time. So why isn't he in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame yet? Initially signed to Cadence Records, Wray -- who was born ...

Guitar master Link Wray, the father of the power chord in rock ‘n’ roll who inspired Bruce Springsteen, David Bowie and Pete Townshend, died Nov. 5 in Copenhagen. He was 76. Wray, who played in his ...

Link Wray, the Dunn-born rocker whose fuzz-toned guitar conjured danger, adrenaline and rebellion for its own sake, will join the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as a posthumous inductee — adding a ...

In 1972, Link Wray took the stage in Greenwich Village. For the forty-three-year-old North Carolinian who had rocked the world with his dangerous-sounding instrumental hit, “Rumble,” in 1958, it was ...

COPENHAGEN, Denmark – Guitar master Link Wray, the father of the power chord in rock 'n' roll who inspired legends such as Bruce Springsteen, David Bowie and Pete Townsend, has died. Wray, 76, died at ...

Link Wray is the man who is said to have inspired rock-and-roll legends such as Pete Townsend and Neil Young with his power chord guitar playing. Link Wray was 76 when he died earlier this month at ...

Link Wray, the electric guitar innovator who is often credited as the father of the power chord, died earlier this month at his home in Copenhagen, apparently of natural causes. He was seventy-six. He ...