Bill Kirchen's Honky Tonk Holiday Tour at the 443 Social Club

Grammy-nominated telecaster master and Commander Cody founder BILL KIRCHEN makes his 443 debut with his Honky Tonk Holiday Tour.

Bill Kirchen will make a stop in Syracuse on his annual Honky-Tonk Holiday Tour with his all-star Texas guys, the Two Turtle Doves - Jack Saunders on bass and Rick Richards on drums.

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 Claus Wants Some Lovin," and more. But be ye not afraid, there'll be so much more than holiday songs of questionable taste; you can count on a truckload of dieselbilly classics, rockers, and country weepers to take the edge off the holiday fuss. So mark your calendars and check 'em twice - Santa Claus is back in town!

Bill Kirchen is one of the fortunate few who can step on any stage, play those trademark guitar licks that he created for the seminal Commander Cody classic, "Hot Rod Lincoln," and elicit immediate recognition.

As a founding father of the proto-Americana group Commander Cody and his Lost Planet Airmen, Kirchen crafted a diesel-fueled guitar hook that propelled their "Hot Rod Lincoln" into the Top 10 nationwide. Kirchen went on to the Grammys, where he was nominated for Best Country Instrumental in 2001.

He has recorded with Elvis Costello, Nick Lowe, Dan Hicks, Maria Muldaur, Hoyt Axton, Hazel Dickens, Gene Vincent and Link Wray, and has toured the world as guitarist with Cody, Nick Lowe, Hoyt Axton and Emmylou Harris.

Bill Kirchen was inducted into the Hall Of Fame of the Washington DC Wammie Music Awards in 2001, alongside Dave Grohl and John Phillip Sousa. He joined a remarkable list of prior inductees including Bo Diddly, Duke Ellington, Ruth Brown, Marvin Gaye, Patsy Cline, Shirley Horn, Emmylou Harris, Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady.

Bill’s bringing songs from his extensive catalogue of over 2 dozen albums, from the Commander Cody discs on through his current 12 releases on the Proper and Last Music Company labels. Bill’s latest releases are Back from the Ozone, a Lost Planet Airmen reunion CD out in October 2023 and, from 2021, the LPs Waxworks and Tombstone Every Mile, along with The Proper Years and Tombstone on CD and in all digital formats, all on the Last Music Company label.

Washington Post: "Seldom has traveling across the rock and country landscape been this much fun"

Guitar Player magazine: “The Titan of the Telecaster... cuts loose with some of the fattest, gnarliest low-down twang imaginable”

Rolling Stone: “A musical treasure, a fantastic player, and, in these roots-conscious times, very much a pioneer, Bill Kirchen is one of our best.”

TICKET INFO:

- The 443 is an intimate listening room with table service, seating 75 people.

- The green squares/circles on the floor plan are bar-height tables, and the orange squares are regular-height tables.

- Most of our seats are sold as "Tables for Two" - meaning the ticket admits TWO people.

- We have a limited number of single seats available, and single attendees may be sharing a table with other single attendees.

- Multiple tickets purchased under the same name will automatically be seated together (up to 6 people).

- If you have 2, 4, or 6 people in your group, please purchase a Table(s) for Two. If you have 1, 3, or 5 people in your group, please purchase Single Seats - Shared Table.

- Requesting a specific table is a perk reserved for our VIP Patron members. If you're interested in supporting our mission, you can find membership information HERE.

- If anyone in your party needs special seating arrangements - walker, cane, service animal, wheelchair, low table requirement, or you want to be seated with another party - please email us after you place your order, and we'll make it happen.

- All tickets are "WILL CALL" - no need to print anything out, just give your name at the door.