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About Chris Acker:
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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
About Erika Lewis:
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Erika Lewis is a singer, songwriter and performer originally from the Hudson Valley in New York State. She is best known as the lead voice for the New Orleans jazz and blues band, Tuba Skinny. In 2013, Erika formed The Lonesome Doves as an outlet for her original songs. These songs were born from life and love with influence from greats such as Hank Williams, Hazel Dickens, Joni Mitchell and Gillian Welch. At the same time, taking direct inspiration from her community of friends, songwriters and bands including The Deslondes, Hurray For The Riff Raff, and Sundown Songs. She is currently based in Asheville, NC.
Erika Lewis will be accompanied by John James Tourville, a member of The Deslondes who is featured on her album "Waiting for Stars" and works as a studio musician with The Bomb Shelter in Nashville, TN, in addition to a number of other projects.
About Wes Pearce:
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Known for booking the weekly Asheville Country & Honky-Tonk night Western Wednesdays, Wes Pearce spent years traveling the country absorbing folk and string band music from the many musicians he encountered along the way. Most recently, he played with an Asheville-based Western Swing band "Wyatt Yurth & the Gold Standard" and you can catch him around town with his band "Wessy & the Moonlighters." His original songs blend hearty and somber folk-songwriting with doo-wop and piedmont finger-picking influence.