Redd Volkeart Haybale - I Love You Because You Understand Me

Heybale! has been perfoming at the Continental now for almost 8 years. The band was started by Tom Lewis while living in Nashville in 1999 as a tool to have fun and play country music. The original lineup included Redd Volkaert on guitar, Dave Roe on bass, James Morgan on vocals and Tommy Hannum on steel. They played to empty rooms around Nashville while answering the stupid questions of why they were playing. Is this a showcase? Are you trying to get a deal? You know any New Country songs? Unsupported, the band disbanded and all went their separate ways. Cut to the spring of 2000. Tom Lewis moves back to Austin and discovers that Redd has moved there as well as Earl Poole Ball, the legendary piano man for Johnny Cash. He also encounters Gary Claxton, yet another frustrated singer/songwriter he met while living in Nashville. The nucleus of the band was reformed. Steve Werthiemer, owner of the Continental, offered sunday nights to Heybale! and they've been there filling the dancefloor ever since.

Buzz Evans - steel guitar
Earl Poole Ball - piano / vocals
Redd Volkaert - electric 6 string guitar / vocals
Kevin Smith - stand up bass / vocals
Gary Claxton - acoustic guitar / vocals
Tom Lewis - drums

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Music

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• Pedal
• Steel
• Buzz
• Evans
• Redd
• Volkaert
• Continental
• Club
• Austin
• Texas
• Upright
• Bass
• Fiddle
• Honky
• Tonk
• Johnny
• Cash