Austin-based guitarist Redd Volkaert has played with everyone from Merle Haggard to Eric Johnson, including George Jones, Dolly Parton, ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons and a whole bunch more. Growing up in ...

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,” ...

Redd Volkaert remembers the day that the great Merle Haggard called him up and asked if he’d play guitar in his band. “I said, ‘Murph, you lying bastard.’ I was thinking it was my buddy Jim Murphy, a ...

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 ...

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 ...