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

The Flanks

Schedule of Personal Appearances:

September 12, 2010 (Sunday). 9 p.m. The 7th Annual Brooklyn Country Music Festival at Southpaw. 125 Fifth Ave & Sterling Place, Brooklyn, NY. With Alex Battles, Dock Oscar, the reunited Brooklyn Jugs, Kristin Andreassen, and the Roulette Sisters. Tickets may be purchased here.
This is our last show until November!

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Albums:

Field Days       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
The Flanks
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