From Issue Four of Gear Patrol Magazine. Discounted domestic shipping + 15% off in the GP store for new subscribers. Austin is a hotbed of musical talent. Its denizens have a voracious appetite for ...

Redd Volkaert plays the Fender Telecaster guitar like a virtuoso, but he’s too self-effacing to admit it. “I’m just a goofball with a Telecaster,” he said during recent phone interview. “I’ve just ...

Redd Volkaert, originally from Canada, is widely regarded as one of the greatest guitar players in the modern era and is "among the country's top Telecaster guitar slingers, particularly in the genres ...

True Tele masters don’t hide behind a rack of effects. They run fast, clean and out front. “You can’t just kind of fluff and play on the thing. You have to get after it and chase it and stay on it,” ...

A 1953 Fender Telecaster guitar has a distinctive twang, and when it's in the hands of guitar master Redd Volkaert, you can imagine yourself in a Country & Western bar as the waitress makes her rounds ...

The Long Center Concert Club presents Redd Volkaert & Bill Kirchen. Volkaert is a master of the Telecaster with an impressive resume that includes lead guitar duties for the late Merle Haggard.

Telecaster guitar master Redd Volkaert was one of Austin, Texas’s busiest musicians for a couple of decades. With: Sammy Shelor & Jesse Smathers (Lonesome River Band), Gene Parker & Allen Mills (Lost ...

I always say that the best part of playing music is the people you meet along the way. It might be fans who become friends or venue owners whose clubs you ending up rooting for and try to help remain ...

Not too many things from 1953 are much good today. Hell, in our throwaway culture, few things from back then are even still around. A ’53 Buick? Bulbous, cumbersome, and primitive by today’s standards ...

The best country comes from the strangest places: former Chicagoan Dallas Wayne was born in Branson, Missouri, but he made his name in Finland, where he released five albums before moving back to the ...

June 29, 2001 • A 1953 Fender Telecaster guitar has a distinctive twang, and when it's in the hands of guitar master Redd Volkaert, you can imagine yourself in a Country & Western bar as the waitress ...