CHRIS ACKER wsg/ OLD PUP

Name: CHRIS ACKER wsg/ OLD PUP
Start: 2025-03-09T19:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-03-09T22:00:00-05:00
Location: Showboat Saloon

Schedule

Sun Mar 09 2025 at 07:00 pm to 10:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Showboat Saloon | Wisconsin Dells, WI

Night #1 Of A 3 Day Dream Vacation In The Dells
CHRIS ACKER • 3.09.25 • SHOWBOAT SALOON
wsg/ OLD PUP
New Album "Famous Lunch" Dropped 10.11.24
This Is Every Songwriters, Favorite Songwriter!
$10 GA Tickets • $30 GA 4 Packs • 21+
"In a genre full of tall tales and marketable lies, Chris Acker crafts candid songs - weaving his wit and woes into a body of work that exposes the stale plight of the American Songster to the honest, and sometimes hilarious, light of day.
Since leaving his childhood home of Seattle, Washington, Chris Acker has called the haggard decadence of the New Orleans Americana world his purlieu. In the tradition of Guthrie and Prine, Chris lends a quavering voice to the half-rotten romance of the unremarkable and unrefined.
Regardless if you're sitting by a backyard fire on a muggy Louisiana night or standing stage-side in some far flung town, when you hear Chris Acker playing, you're hearing the end result of countless hours of observing the masters of the craft... and the end result of repeating their mistakes.
Some hard-times don't happen behind plows, they happen behind dish-pits and cash registers.
Some ramblers don't feel the hot breath of freedom, just the smell of car exhaust and a couch for a bed. From the folk revival through the golden age of country music, deafened by punk shows and brass bands alike, Chris's songwriting is a nod to the absurd yet muted brilliance that inhabits the molded corners of the bars he patrons and cratered street he treads, paired with a pained honesty that merits a long second look."
- Nick Shoulders
OLD PUP
Old Pup hails and blazes the trails of Psych Folk straight from the bleeding beating heart of America via Milwaukee. Drawing on influence from great American poets like Jim Harrison and Denis Johnson, Incognito Lounge gets the nails dirty quickly, pulling up healthy and strong musical roots with a fine complement of soldiers: Drue Devente/Brendan Andrews (Bass), Nick Spiroff (Drums), Jacob Bicknase (Percussion), Andy Goita (Piano/Organ), Benjamin Boehm (Cello), and Will Hansen on Vocals, Guitars, Lap Steel, Harmonica, and Banjo.