Bill Kirchen & Redd Volkaert

Two heavyweight guitar slingers and singers find a common ground with  their deep history in Honky Tonk and Rock’n’Roll and their command of  the electric guitar. Bill Kirchen is a founding father of Commander  Cody. Redd Volkaert spent many years as the lead guitarist for the  mighty Merle Haggard, and has played and recorded with a who’s who of  greats, from Dale Watson to Brad Paisley to Billy Gibbons.

About Bill Kirchen

Upon tallying how many decades he’s worked as a professional guitar  slinger, Telecaster master Bill Kirchen quips, “Well, they don’t make 50  years like they used to.” They don’t often make careers like his,  either.

From performing with his Who Knows Pickers jug band in Ann Arbor High  School’s senior talent show (also on the program: the future Iggy Pop),  to birthing the Americana genre with the original “hippie country  band,” Commander Cody and his Lost Planet Airmen, this…