Product Details
- An MVD Exclusive
- SKU: BCD16523
- Format: CD
- UPC: 4000127165237
- Street Date: 02/27/09
- PreBook Date: 01/01/01
- Label: Bear Family Records »
- Genre: Pop/Rock
- Run Time: 82 mins
- Number of Discs: 1
- Year of Production: 2009
- Box Lot: 25
- Territory: NORTH AMERICA
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Link Davis - Big Mamou
1-CD-Album Digipak (4-plated) with 60-page booklet, 34 tracks. Playing time approx. 82 mns
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- Your Price: $15.74
- In Stock: 1
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The complete OKeh/Columbia and Starday recordings of this classic Texas singer collected together for the first time, most from the original master tapes. Includes the version of Big Mamou that became a country-Cajun standard. Comes with four unissued OKeh sides, and two alternate takes from Starday masters. Contains a newly researched biography of Link Davis by Andrew Brown, with rare unpublished photos from the Link Davis family.
Link Davis began in the Fifties as a forward-looking white R&B singer and saxophonist, recording a storming version of Good Rockin' Tonight five years before Elvis Presley's supposedly ground-breaking attempt at the same song. Link Davis then morphed into a Cajun fiddler, scoring a big regional hit with the ancient-sounding waltz 'Big Mamou', which helped introduce America to Cajun music. By mid-decade, when rock 'n' roll came along and forced most of his country music friends into early retirement, Link Davis instead re-emerged as a born-again rocker, cutting some of his most memorable records.
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