LIVE at LEONA's
Friday, March 7
Chris Acker with Jack Klatt, Luke Callen
doors 7 • show 8
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. 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.
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.
In support will be Jack Klatt (Twin Cities) and Luke Callen (La Crosse / Eau Claire), and it all adds up to a night with some of the finest songwriters from both ends of the Mississippi River.
Proudly presented by Farewell Transmission Radio, Converge 101.9 FM's weekly alt-country & indie folk show.
