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Philip, hard to believe I was pokin' my way through the threads and took a second look at this one!
I may just have an answer for ya after nearly five months!
If this is the song I think it is, "Tuff" (correct spelling) was released about 1957 or 1958 by Link Wray and the Wray Men. It was a guitar band (kinda like Duane Eddy) but I have read that Link Wray was way ahead of his time; some rock experts consider "Tuff" the first progressive rock and roll recording, coming out at a time when most rock music was still fairly simple.
I was five or six when it was released, and I recall it had a jazzy, almost space-age sound to it that was unlike anything I heard up to that point (may have been the guitar distortion) yet it had that bluesy sound you describe. And even then, it kicked serious *** at a time when people were still bent out of shape about Elvis Presley. Sad part is something that imaginative wouldn't get any attention unless it had f-bombs and b-bombs and every other kind of bomb you could think of as its lyrics!
Hope it points ya in the right direction...
keep the beat goin' ... Don't keep it to yourself!
Charlie
"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away." --Henry David Thoreau, "Walden," 1854
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