JBM Promotions & tSGHR present Bill Kirchen's Honky Tonk Holiday Show
The Southgate House Revival - Sanctuary, 111 E Sixth Street, 41071 Newport Directions
Wed 09.12.2026 19:00
Price includes all applicable state and local taxesForget the Nutcracker and Handels Messiah. For a real taste of seasonal cheer, nothing says joy to the world like Bill Kirchen singing Daddys Drinkin Up Our Christmas. Featured is a sleigh-full of rarely heard holiday numbers from the blues, rock n roll and honky tonk bags: Silent Surfin Night, Truckin Trees for Christmas, Santa Looked A Lot Like Daddy and many more. But be ye not afraid, therell be so much more than holiday songs of questionable taste; you can count on a truckload of dieselbilly classics to take the edge off the holiday fuss.Grammy nominated guitarist, singer and songwriter Bill Kirchen first gained national recognition as a founding father of Commander Cody and his Lost Planet Airmen. His trademark guitar licks drove their Hot Rod Lincoln cut into the Top Ten in 1972.He has released over a dozen albums under his own name, and played guitar live or on record with a whos who of Americana and Roots RockN Roll, among them Gene Vincent, Link Wray, Bo Diddley, Hazel Dickens, Doug Sahm, Hoyt Axton, Emmylou Harris, Maria Muldaur, Dan Hicks, Nick Lowe and Elvis Costello.His latest recording Cat out of the Bag was released May 22, 2026 on Last Music Company.
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Bill KirchenUpon tallying how many decades he’s worked as a professional guitar slinger, Telecaster master Bill Kirchen quips, “Well, they don't make 50 years like they used to.” They don’t often make careers like his, either.
From performing with his Who Knows Pickers jug band in Ann Arbor High School’s senior talent show (also on the program: the future Iggy Pop), to birthing the Americana genre with the original “hippie country band,” Commander Cody and his Lost Planet Airmen, this affable Austinite has been everywhere, man, flying alongside some of the planet’s coolest cats — including the Jesus of Cool, Nick Lowe, and Lowe’s old protégé, Elvis Costello.