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The Flanks

About Me


Our newest album, Field Days , has just been released. For $10, you too can have a field day in the comfort of your very own den.
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Our first album, You and Me and the People Who Can't Go Home, is still available on all seven continents. It's fun to look back on things, isn't it?
You and Me and the People Who Can't Go Home — $10
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"The Flanks just blew my mind . . . One of the most wonderful shows I've ever seen."
—Brooklyn Vegan
"Nice job. They should turn you up louder."
—Tommy Ramone
"The Flanks are pure, authentic, beautiful, crooked country jug music. The Flanks are that band in the corner of the town hall dance on Main Street. They're those people you've seen every day on your way to work, in various disguises of drudgery, who roll themselves into a crimefighting machine of plucky twang by night.
With a fiddle, a bass, a harmonica, a guitar or two, a banjo, a snare drum, and six voices creating a wall of sound you can't back down from, the Flanks are undeniably one of the greats of Brooklyn Country. From auspicious beginnings at the far corners of this land, with influences as diverse as ska and whiskey, The Flanks have been one of my favorite bands since the first time I heard them in 2004. They remain so to this day. I hope you will go and see them real soon. Make sure to yell for "Rosemaries" when you do. No need to tell them who sent you. They'll know."
Alex Battles, songwriter
Creator of the Brooklyn Country Music Festival..
"Their sound has been variously described as old-time music, jug music, string band music, and 'garage country'; one commentator has said that 'the Flanks are sort of like post-war Blind Willie McTell meets pre-A Star Is Born Kris Kristofferson meets Jimmie Rodgers without the tuberculosis. In other words, you don't want to miss them.'"

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 16/01/2006
Band Website: www.theflanks.com
Band Members: Tom Bouman: Guitar, Mandolin, Banjo, Steam Calliope

Nick Capodice: Harmonica, Wurlitzer, Accordion, Baritone Horn, Rye Bottle

Tom Mayer: Double Bass, Largemouth Bass

Margaret Mitchell: Violin, Viola, Viol da Gamba, Violchoppe

Danny Mulligan: Guitar, Banjo, "Whip Crack" in Sleigh Ride (7th grade)

Ayan Babi Pal: Percussion, Strings, Minivan, rearranger

Everybody, even your husband: Vocals

Nat Bouman: Bull Fiddle Emeritus
Influences: The stern words of warning our parents intoned.
Sounds Like:"Listening to the Flanks is like being seduced by a toothless carney with magic in his eyes." --Annie Wedekind, saxophonist, Rocketship Salamander
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

Alex Battles is too kind

"The Flanks are pure, authentic, beautiful, crooked country jug music. The Flanks are that band in the corner of the town hall dance on Main Street. They're those people you've seen every day on your...
Posted by on Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:37:00 GMT

MISSIVE: ALBUM RELEASE PARTY 10/25

Saturday night, 10/25, 7pm. 179 Powers St. Off the Graham Ave stop on the L. The word is on the street, and the word (just this once) is not "bird".Through liberal use of grit, liberal whittlings of s...
Posted by on Wed, 22 Oct 2008 14:51:00 GMT

CDs for sale! Also, tickets for the pancake feed at American Legion Post 152 now available!!

Listen to and buy our CD now. Our long-awaited first album is finally complete and ready for your consumption. Like Blonde on Blonde, it's a "2-RECORD SET ON 1 COMPACT DISC." You a...
Posted by on Thu, 07 Dec 2006 19:04:00 GMT

Album Release Party.

Ah, November. The kind old lady who ushers you in from the wind that smells of cherry wood, the woman who bedecks you in warm wool and hands you a winesap. The last pleasant face before the cold eyes ...
Posted by on Wed, 08 Nov 2006 19:11:00 GMT

Bob Dylan on country music

After playing the George Jones & Melba Montgomery classic "Let's Invite Them Over" on his radio show, Bob Dylan abandoned his mellow deejay persona for a few moments to rant about the decline...
Posted by on Tue, 05 Sep 2006 18:12:00 GMT

There's less bottom now.

Nick here, typing away from work.It was a wonderful sounding show last night. Sure, it was on a Sunday, there was a momentous Mets game on, and it was a little quiet in that back room at Galapagos. Bu...
Posted by on Mon, 22 May 2006 07:24:00 GMT

the pickle gig, May 6th

The Flanks play Freddy's this Saturday night at 9:30 & 11:30 for Free.   This Saturday we're proud to be playing the launch party for a splendid outfit called Wheelhouse Pickles. I can't ev...
Posted by on Wed, 03 May 2006 09:58:00 GMT

Your gherkin's fer ferkin not gherkin. (Thanks dad!)

This is Nick here, just Nick, not the combined "Flanks" entity. It would be very hard to write something as the Flank entity, all of us huddled around the computer, Danny gnawing a pencil, Margaret lo...
Posted by on Wed, 22 Mar 2006 07:37:00 GMT