Robbie Fulks & Redd Volkaert
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Friday, June 5, 2015 9pm
Robbie Fulks & Redd Volkaert
$15 adv. $20 dos
Fulks is a gifted guitarist, a soulful singer with an expressive honky-tonk tenor, and a
natural performer.” —The New York Times
“Robbie Fulks knows better than most that country music needs a touch of Viet Cong attitude:
Sometimes you’ve got to burn the village in order to save it.” —Playboy
“The great Robbie Fulks: a Chicago area country/alt-country genius. Why are you still
listening to me? You should be going on iTunes right now...buy it, buy everything.”
—Tina Fey
"Chicago's most fertile musical mind...so good, he's scary" - Chicago Tribune
"One of the great honky-tonk voices of his generation" - Washington Post
"Fulks is a true find amid the legions of too-serious/too-hip for their own good alt-country artists...he performs in a warm, wry and witty style, with startlingly fast and fluid guitar solos that recall prime Chet Atkins." - Fort Worth Star-Telegram
"If country music has an Elvis Costello, it's Robbie Fulks, who marries Ivy League cleverness to an appreciation of hillbilly music that actual hillbillies could only envy" - Entertainment Weekly
"Fulks is a gifted guitarist, a soulful singer with an expressive honky-tonk tenor, and a natural performer. But what really sets him apart is his songwriting, which is one part artful country, one part artful sendup of country and one part a little of everything else... It's sort of country meets David Lynch." - New York Times
Crawdaddy, Jan 2009
Redd Volkaert is a master of the Telecaster with an impressive resume that includes fronting the superstar hillbilly band the Twangbangers with Bill Kirchen and Dallas Wayne, lead guitar duties for Merle Haggard, ...
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AllMusic 2008
If you really miss Danny Gatton, then discovering a Telecaster slinger like Redd Volkaert is one of the few things that can assuage the abiding grief just a little bit..
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Lowell Sun, July 2008
You're overworked. Redd's sausage-like fingers strangle your neck over and over, wringing out, in a 20-second solo, more quality licks than 10 ice cream stands..
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Austin Chronicle, January 2007
Redd won the best electric guitarist in Austin award again this year, 2 in a row..
The results
..more dirt
MySpace Interview, May 2007
A MySpace interview with Redd.
The interview
Fender News, July 2006
If you're unfamiliar with the incredible Redd Volkaert, either of two DVDs released this year would make a fine introduction to his world of Tele-slingin' honky-tonkin' good times. Live in Austin features a performance at the Continental Club in Volkaert's adopted Texas home city; Stolen Licks is an instructional DVD with a dozen licks ripe for the picking. Either fantastic disc (or both, better yet) will have you seeing Redd in no time. [...]
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Austin360.com, August 07 2005
It was a '58 model of Fender's first electric solid-body guitar and this was around 1970 or '71. The precursor of the legendary Telecaster had a white ash body with a white pickguard, a tiny coffee stain on the case but no wear on the guitar; the lacquer was still on the neck. [...]
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RockyMountTelegram.com, August 07 2005
AUSTIN, Texas. Coming up near Vancouver, B.C., the Volkaert boy was . . . he doesn't want to say poor, exactly, he just never wanted a lot of stuff. But when his dad came home with a Fender Esquire, that the kid wanted. [...]
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Vintage Guitar Magazine, June 2005
Ray Benson's Birthday Bash
Vintage Guitar Magazine, Nov 2003
By Ward Meeker
[...] I got to know Redd a couple years ago, and he has changed my life. I've wanted to cut a duet with him actually my wife (actress Kimberly Williams) had as much to do with that as anyone [...]
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Austin Chronicle April 13, 2001
By Jerry Renshaw
When Leo Fender dreamed up the Telecaster electric guitar back in '49 or so, it's doubtful he knew what uses it would be put to, especially in the hands of someone like Redd Volkaert. The local Telecaster master is all over the guitar like grease on a pork chop, quoting jazz, country, blues, and Western swing as effortlessly as turning on the lights in the living room. [...]
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twangzine.com June 3rd, 2001
By Jeff Wall
If you ever go see Merle Haggard, you will most likely notice this redheaded Amish looking guy playing the Telecaster. He's not only able to play all those classic Roy Nichols licks, but he adds some of his own magic in there as well. [...]
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