The Flanks

“The Flanks play feel-good, sing-along, dirty country-folk... Behind their deceptive simplicity hides a bunch of very good musicians. Clever original songs, funny lyrics—swinging, bluesy top-shelf entertainment with no false pretenses... Their album Field Days catches fire like a Molotov cocktail."

—Rootstime

Schedule of Personal Appearances:

March 25, 2009 (Thursday) 10:30 p.m. The Jalopy Theatre. 315 Columbia St @ Woodhull, in Carroll Gardens/Red Hook, Brooklyn (F or G to Carroll St).
We're pleased to be helping the Strung Out String Band celebrate the release of its first album. Come at 9 to hear the SOSB, featuring the valiant Tom Mayer.

May 1, 2009 (Saturday). The Jalopy Theatre. 315 Columbia St @ Woodhull, in Carroll Gardens/Red Hook, Brooklyn (F or G to Carroll St). With Alex Battles & the Whisky Rebellion and Sammo.

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Albums:

You and Me and the People Who Can't Go Home

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“Rollicking!”

—The New Yorker

“The Flanks just blew my mind. They play this old-timey, country-folk music complete with guitars, harmonica, fiddle, upright bass, and some of the most beautifully sung harmonies I've ever heard. . . . One of the most wonderful shows I've ever seen.”

—Brooklyn Vegan

“First-rate Americana.”

—Leicester Bangs

Confetti cannons make everything better.

"Nice Job. They should turn you up louder."

—Tommy Ramone

“Well, that's a disturbing little ditty.”

—John Schaefer, WNYC's Soundcheck

“The Flanks are pure, authentic, beautiful, crooked country . . . They're those people you've seen every day on your way to work, in various disguises of drudgery, who roll themselves into a crime-fighting machine of plucky twang by night.”

—Alex Battles, songwriter

Horn image and album cover designs by Emily Wilbur / Photos mostly by Christian Averill