Elvis was rock'n'roll. He came from the poverty and the pain.

Harris Mayor of the City of Dunn North Carolina do hereby proclaim Fred Lincoln "Link" Wray Jr. Film and books about Link
A documentary film on Link's life and career is currently in production. On July 2 2010 the Smithsonian Institute Museum of the Native American opened the exhibit "Up Where We Belong - Native Musicians in Popular Culture" in which Wray is one of 12 artists presented.

Fred Lincoln "Link" Wray Jr (May 2 1929 – November 5 2005) was an American rock and roll guitarist songwriter and vocalist who first came to popularity in the late 1950's. Building on the overdriven distorted electric guitar sound of early electric blues records his 1958 instrumental hit "Rumble" by Link Wray and his Ray Men introduced "the power chord the major modus operandi of modern rock guitarists" making possible "punk and heavy rock.