Rumbles Rawhides Jacks & Aces 2CD

Link Wray
Rumbles Raw-Hides Jacks and Aces 2CD

It's not unreasonable to suggest that Link Wray was the most influential Rock guitarist of all.
OK, he may not have actually invented the Power Chord, but he was almost certainly the first guitarist to successfully harness distortion, and in tracks like Rumble, Raw-Hide, Slinky, Jack The Ripper and Ace Of Spades, he effectively slapped down the blueprint for much of the no-prisoners-taken, cranked-up-loud-enough-to-make-your-ears-bleed, guitar-propelled pyrotechnics which would follow over the ensuing decades.
However, in addition to those sides which bore his own name, Link played as a sideman on countless 1950s and early '60s sessions, many of which are now long forgotten obscurities, of interest because of his involvement.