JULY 21, 2017
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Reckless Kelly going strong at 20 By L. Kent Wolgamott
Village Park is an Encinitas indie band composed of Luca Irvin, Nico Fabito, Palmer Turnbull and Victor Epstein. Courtesy photo
Local boys rock indie scene ENCINITAS — Village Park is the Encinitas neighborhood where Luca Irvin and Nico Fabito grew up and the name of their ambitious new indie rock band. Irvin, 18, performs lead vocals and lead guitar and has been songwriting with his friend and bandmate Fabito for more than four years. Fabito, also 18, plays keys and also produces and mixes for the band and other local artists. Since their debut performance July 1 at the 2017 UNIV event, the band has been hard at work. Village Park is known locally for their music, their collaboration with Nicky M. Smack (another Encinitas teen who made
a guest performance at the debut show), their graduation performance of Harry Styles’ “Sign of the Times” (where the entire senior class rushed the stage) and their cool T-shirts often spotted around town. The duo has written more than 10 original songs over the past two years. Drummer Palmer Turnbull and bassist/guitarist Victor Epstein, also from Encinitas, round out the talented teen group. Find them on Instagram at village.park and on Soundcloud at https:// sou ndcloud.com /v i llage-park. For inquiries, contact Luca Irvin at (760) 3306694 or Nico Fabito at NFabito@gmail.com.
There’s no better way to celebrate 20 years as a band than to put out the best album of a two-decade career. At least that’s the philosophy of Reckless Kelly. With frontman Willy Braun and his multi-instrumentalist brother Cody producing and appearances by among others, The Mastersons, Bukka Allen and Rosie Flores, along with their younger brothers, Micky and Gary, the Texas band’s ninth studio album, “Sunset Motel,” is their top recording yet. “It’s always the goal to top what you did last time,” Cody Braun said in a recent phone interview. “It’s definitely a good representation of the band. We try to get better every year and learn new tricks in the studio. The cool thing about this one is we got to go back to Arlyn Studio, where we made our first record. It was just really comfortable, a good time in the studio.” The record is filled with music that refines Reckless Kelly’s mix of rock ‘n’ roll and country into a swinging, twangy sound that doesn’t fit easily into any category or genre. “We’ve always been a country rock band,” Braun said. “We’ve always wanted to push that edge. It’s hilarious to me to see where country radio has gone. Ten years ago, they were telling us we were too rock ‘n’ roll Now it’s going completely to the other side with the rap and they’re still not playing us. It definitely goes to show if you’re not in the right pockets in Nashville, you’re not going to get played on the radio.” Reckless Kelly addresses just
Texas band Reckless Kelly, which plays July 27 at the Belly Up in Solana Beach, doesn’t fit easily into any category or genre. Photo by Carl Dunn and Backstage Design Studio.
that on “Radio,” a “Sunset Motel” song that kicks off with radio static, then rock ‘n’ rolls through a makingit-in-the-business tale anchored lines like “you want the money and the fame and the sold out shows, you’ve got to get on the radio.” Well, maybe not. That’s what Braun and Reckless Kelly have discovered and what Sturgill Simpson has, of late, been proclaiming in interviews. “He (Simpson) says it plainly — we don’t need Nashville anymore,” Braun said. “We don’t need Music Row. We’re selling records and getting people out to our shows. It’s great to see people like Sturgill, Jason Isbell and Chris Stapleton doing what
they’re doing — kind of sticking it to them. There are people out there hungry for real music. But that music isn’t getting played on the radio.” That, in part, is because Texas music doesn’t fit easily into the commercial country format, is too country for rock radio and is too rock for Americana. “Musically, it’s a mix of country, blues, rock ‘n’ roll, Southern rock, that’s what I like about it,” Braun said. “The staunch Americana Nashville scene is more dipped in bluegrass and traditional country. I see the Texas sound as being more progressive and built on songwriters like Robert Earl TURN TO RECKLESS KELLY ON A15
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