CHRIS ACKER wsg/ THE LOCAL HONEYS

Name: CHRIS ACKER wsg/ THE LOCAL HONEYS
Start: 2025-03-10T19:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-03-10T22:00:00-05:00
Location: Showboat Saloon

Schedule

Mon Mar 10 2025 at 07:00 pm to 10:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Showboat Saloon | Wisconsin Dells, WI

Night #2 Of A 3 Day Dream Vacation In The Dells
CHRIS ACKER • 3.10.25 • SHOWBOAT SALOON
wsg/ THE LOCAL HONEYS

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
THE LOCAL HONEYS
Though many artists are defined by place, only a handful of artists come to define the places they're from. The Local Honeys are Kentucky and Kentucky runs through their veins like an unbridled racehorse. When a master songsmith like Tom T Hall calls an artist "a great credit to a wonderful Kentucky tradition" it's time to pull up a chair and pay attention. As it pertains to The Local Honeys he was right on the money. For almost a decade the duo (Montana Hobbs and Linda Jean Stokley) have been an integral part of the Kentucky musicscape. They've paid their dues, garnering countless accolades and accomplishments (tours with Tyler Childers, Colter Wall, praise from the New York Times) and have become the defining sound of real deal, honest-to-god Kentucky music.
With their self-titled debut on La Honda Records, (home of some of today's most gifted songwriters; Colter Wall, Riddy Arman, Vincent Neil Emerson) the duo have set forth on a journey to create something true to themselves while pushing the envelope within the traditions they hold dear. Carefully crafted vignettes of rural Kentucky soar above layers of deep grooves and rich tones masterfully curated by longtime mentor Jesse Wells, Grammy nominated producer and musician (Assistant Director at the Kentucky Center for Traditional Music at Morehead State). "Jesse grew up with sisters. He was cut from the same cloth as us and we knew he would understand what we wanted to do." What they ended up with is the most nuanced, moody, deep-holler sound they have captured to date. "This is the first time we've actively gotten to express who we are and where we're from" says Linda Jean, "The songs on the album speak for us," adds Montana "they're about what we know, reflections of us as people. We realized we have the power to add our own narrative into Kentucky music." Through that realization the two were able to uncover and dissect themes unique to Central Appalachia and in turn their own lives, capturing small moments in time that deliver thunderous results.