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Title: Country meets jazz/surf
Review: Redd Volkeart's album No Stranger to a Tele (a play on The Strangers, Merle Haggard's band, which Redd plays lead guitar in) shows off his wide range of influences, from 40's jazz to songs that sound like they came from a Ventures album. Everything has a basic honky tonk counrty base, naturally, but the instrumentals (my favorites by far) have a wide pallette of sounds from Redd-hot chicken pickin' to Charlie Christian to whammy pedal driven surf licks Nokie Edwards would be proud of. When Redd sings he has a nice, smooth old-time country baritone voice. He's not quite Merle, but them who is? All in all, fans of tasteful Telecaster guitar will find this a true delight.
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