Robbie Fulks and Redd Volkaert

McGonigel’s Mucky Duck presents Robbie Fulks and Redd Volkaert.

 Robbie Fulks – Fulks has a well-known disdain for modern mainstream country music and has reflected his feelings for the industry in various songs. Fans in attendance at his live concert have a chance to hear for themselves, as he performs his original music as well as covers of tunes by artists from Michael Jackson to Cher.

Many of Fulks’ songs are designed to elicit laughs, presenting spoofs or just silliness to the fans. But he’s not stuck in one mold. Fulks also creates serious songs that cross genre lines.

Before releasing his solo debut album, “Country Love Songs,” on Bloodshot Records in 1996, Fulks played with the bluegrass band Special Consensus, appearing on 1989’s Grammy Award-nominated “Hole in My Heart.”

Robbie plays by nobody’s rules–except the ones he hears in his head. He is prodigiously talented, with the soul of a country singer and the mind of a vaudevillian. Besides, his scorn for the music industry makes ours look positively prosaic. But don’t let that make you lose sight of THE SONGS.

Widely regarded by those who monitor such things as one of the most gifted songwriters to ever ply the trade, he can sing the kids ditty “Eggs” and Haggard’s”Sing a Sad Song” back to back and mean ’em both.

While it is true he started off a honky tonk smartass, it quickly became evident that Robbie was a monster talent and some of his early Bloodshot albums have been rightly elevated to the status of “classic” and serve as their own Greatest Hits collections. Seriously.

REDD VOLKAERT – “You wanna know who the best guitar player in the world is….it’s a guy named Redd Volkaert” -Bugs Henderson

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, lead guitar duties for Merle Haggard.

Redd Volkaert (born 1958) was a successor to Roy Nichols in Merle Haggard’s backing band, and is “among the country’s top Telecaster guitar slingers.”. Volkaert won a 2009 Grammy for Best Country Instrumental Performance. He is a top notch player and session musician and has played with some of the biggest names in music history.

Redd has some great country guitar lessons. He goes over Chicken Pickin, Stolen Licks, and shows you a bunch of great quick licks to throw into your country or blues playing.