Fresh Fish Special

by Robert Gordon & Link Wray

Fresh Fish Special cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: March 1978
  • Label: Private Stock
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 26:30
  • Community rating: 3.39/5 from 2 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Forging a vital connection between original 1950s rock and roll and the burgeoning punk scene, this collaboration pairs a CBGB regular with an instrumental guitar pioneer. The sessions famously featured backing vocals from Bruce Springsteen on his own composition, 'Fire', which he explicitly wrote for Gordon. The record's sharp, stripped-down approach helped ignite a widespread rockabilly revival.

Genres

Tracklist

  1. The Way I Walk (2:48)
  2. Red Cadillac and a Black Moustache (with Link Wray) (2:35)
  3. If This Is Wrong (with Link Wray) (3:13)
  4. Five Days, Five Days (with Link Wray) (2:35)
  5. Fire (2:37)
  6. I Want to Be Free (with Link Wray) (3:31)
  7. Twenty Flight Rock (with Link Wray) (2:14)
  8. Sea Cruise (2:37)
  9. Lonesome Train (On a Lonesome Track) (with Link Wray) (2:11)
  10. Blue Eyes (Don't Run Away) (with Link Wray) (2:05)

Credits

  • Link Wray - primary artist, lead guitar, written-by
  • The Wildcats - backing band
  • The Jordanaires - backing vocals
  • Rob Stoner - performer [the wildcats], bass
  • Howard Wyeth - performer [the wildcats], drums
  • Billy Cross - performer [the wildcats], guitar
  • Jack Scott - written-by
  • Lillian May - written-by

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