Tracks:
Be What You Want To (Link Wray)
All Cried Out (M Deborah / M Curtis)
Lawdy Mis Clawdy (Lloyd Price)
Tucson, Arizona (Doug Wray)
Riverbend (Link Wray)
You Walked By (Link Wray)
Walk Easy, Walk Slow (Link Wray)
All The Love In My Life (Link Wray)
You Really Got A Hold On Me (Link Wray)
Shine The Light (Link Wray)
Morning (Link Wray)
Musicians
Link Wray - vocals and guitar
Teresa Adams - cello
Paul Barlow - bass
Robert Lee Black - pedal steel
David Bromberg - guitar
Jules Broussard - tenor saxaphone
Commander Cody - piano
Lance Dickerson - drums
Greg Douglass - guitar
Mimi Dye - viola
John Dzerigian - guitar, backing vocals
Jerry Garcia - pedal steel
Tom Harrell - trumpet
Tom Heimberg - viola
Peter Kaukonen - guitar
William Kirchen - guitar
Kip Maercklein - bass
John McFee - guitar
Chris Michie - guitar, backing vocals
Jules Rowell - valve trombone
Nate Rubin - violin
Tom Salisbury - piano, clavinet, backing vocals
Rick Schlosser - drums
Jack Schroer - saxophone
Andy Stein - fiddle
Bruce Steinberg - harmonica
Additional backing vocals on various tracks are provided by;
Roger Calkins
Lou CasaBianca
David Coffin
Henry Coleman
Shirley Coombs
Keith Crossan
Frank Demme
Lou Demme
Diane Earl
Ken Fishler
P. J. Friedman
Robert Frost
Sheilah Grant
Zella Hurd
Jeff Husband
Carl Johnson
Tommy Kay
Greg Keeney
David Kerran
Barbara Mauritz
Dorothy Morrison
Ray Odell
Ray Payne
Jerry Segur
Betty Smythe
Diane Vaughns
Denis Welch
Garcia plays on four tracks on this album. The musicians on these tracks are;
All Cried Out;
Link Wray - vocals and guitar
Tom Salisbury - piano, backing vocals
Jerry Garcia - pedal steel guitar
Chris Michie - acoustic guitar, backing vocals
John Dzerigian - electric guitar
Greg Douglass - electric guitar
Kip Maercklein - bass
Rick Schlosser - drums
Jules Broussard - tenor saxaphone
Jack Schroer - saxophone
Tom Harrell - trumpet
Jules Rowell - valve trombone
Nate Rubin - violin
Mimi Dye - viola
Tom Heimberg - viola
Teresa Adams - cello
Barbara Mauritz - backing vocals
Dorothy Morrison - backing vocals
Diane Vaughns - backing vocals
Tucson, Arizona;
Link Wray - vocals and guitar
Tom Salisbury - piano, backing vocals
Jerry Garcia - pedal steel guitar
Chris Michie - acoustic guitar, backing vocals
John Dzerigian - electric guitar
Kip Maercklein - bass
Rick Schlosser - drums
Shirley Coombs - backing vocals
Zella Hurd - backing vocals
Barbara Mauritz - backing vocals
Dorothy Morrison - backing vocals
Diane Vaughns - backing vocals
Riverbend;
Link Wray - vocals and guitar
Tom Salisbury - piano, backing vocals
Jerry Garcia - pedal steel guitar
Chris Michie - electric guitar, backing vocals
John Dzerigian - electric guitar
Kip Maercklein - bass
Rick Schlosser - drums
Shirley Coombs - backing vocals
Zella Hurd - backing vocals
Barbara Mauritz - backing vocals
Dorothy Morrison - backing vocals
Diane Vaughns - backing vocals
Walk Easy, Walk Slow,
Link Wray - vocals and guitar
Tom Salisbury - clavinet
Jerry Garcia - electric guitar
Chris Michie - electric guitar
Kip Maercklein - bass
Rick Schlosser - drums
Jules Broussard - tenor saxaphone
Jack Schroer - saxophone
Tom Harrell - trumpet
Jules Rowell - valve trombone
Other credits
Producer - Thom Jefferson Kaye
Horn and string arrangements - Tom Salisbury
Recording and mixing engineer - Mallory Earl
Assistant engineer - Dan Osoke
Technical advisors - Vernon Wray, Doug Wray
Album design and photography - Bruce Steinberg
Art Direction - Ron Nackman
Recorded at Wally Heider's Studio, San Francisco |
Notes taken from : www.deaddisc.com
"A number of the tracks on this album were included on the Link Wray compilation double CD, Guitar Preacher, The Polydor Years. The essay in the booklet that comes with the compilation provides a brief comments on the recording of Be What You Want To;
When Link came back to Polydor, it was with Be What You Want To in 1973. [Bob] Feldman insists that, had he not been ousted from the picture, the second album would have been a supergroup session, and that Polydor's parent company would have bankrolled an accompanying movie. Then someone had the idea of recording Link in Nashville with the Allmans, but he ended up in San Francisco with producer Thomas Jefferson Kaye. To that point, Kaye's chief claim to fame was that he had produced Loudon Wainwright's Dead Skunk.
After the back-beyond-basics of the first album, Kaye went to the other end of the production spectrum, opting for a very full production with an assortment of rent-a-guests like Commander Cody, Jerry Garcia and David Bromberg. Like Link Wray, Be What You Want To also stood a chance of breaking through, although for different reasons. It was very much of its time in a Leon Russell-ish kind of way. Asked about it later, Link was dismissive. "It was commercial," he told Sounds magazine in London, "but it wasn't me. When people buy a Link Wray album, I want them to buy it because it's Link Wray, not because Commander Cody's on it.
In an interview in 1997 Link Wray spoke about his time with Polydor and why musicians like Garcia played on his LPs at that time;
That was 'cause I had a big record company then, and they wanted to put all them big superstars on it so they could sell records . . . And none of them people wanted to get paid for doin' it. Like Jerry Garcia, he said, 'I love Link Wray. I just come to play, I don't even give a shit about gettin' paid.' And it was the same with John Cipollina from Quicksilver Messenger Service, Boz Scaggs, Commander Cody and all them guys who was on those records. They just come out and supported me and said, 'We really love your music, Link. We was listenin' to you when we was learnin' to play gee-tar.' And the record company ate that up"
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