Welcome to Cashville is definitely our slap in the face to the algorithm, cookie-cutter based drivel that saturates the airwaves. The album is the whole gambit of what VOLK is about. ‘Welcome To Cashville’ is the first single to be taken from the forthcoming album, can you tell us any more about the album release? The lyrics and aesthetic of the song (and definitely of the upcoming music video) is influenced by our Country Western influence: the wit and charm of Dolly Parton’s 9-5 and the sarcasm of Waylon Jennings in a song like Are you Sure Hank Done It this Way.Īlso, I tried desperately to look and move as much as Dwight Yoakam as possible…because, he’s f*cking, Dwight Yoakam. There are the AC/DC, ZZ Top Motorhead inspired riffs and booming drums, as well as Bon Scott/Joan Jett, influenced snarling from both of us. It’s definitely the closest we’ve gotten to capturing our ‘damn the torpedoes’ RocknRoll attitude with some cocksure Country swagger. There are a plethora of Rock and Country influences in ‘Welcome to Cashville’. Who influenced your latest release ‘Welcome To Cashville’? Once I heard ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ by Nirvana, I was hooked to rock guitar and just wanted to play big heavy power chords and let my amp distort and feedback forever there’s nothing more pleasing to my ears.įor Eleot (drums, vox), I know Jet and White Stripes had a huge impact in her younger years, dragging her parents to those bands concerts from an early age…also something about interpretive dancing to Loggins and Messina and Paul Simon songs as a child. I fell in love listening to Pantera, Led Zeppelin, Dead Kennedys, Anthrax, Rage, Biohazard, L7, Soundgarden, STP, Beck, Cake…and who knows what else, in the car with my brother driving me around East Texas as a young rock padawan. Read now! What is your earliest music memory? They have just released the excellent single, ‘Welcome To Cashville’. We were lucky enough to catch up with Chris (guitar, vox) from the fantastic band VOLK.