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 ...

Link Wray, as you probably know by now, died on Nov. 5. He was 76. The Dunn native, who produced some of the most quintessential American guitar rock instrumentals, spent his final years in Copenhagen ...

From the late 1950s to the late 1970s, rock ‘n’ rollers were taking the formula for what they already knew a six-string electric could do and pushing the boundaries one notch further. Musicians were ...