Doors 4pm, Music 7pm

Deke Dickerson and the Ecco-Fonics

Don’t miss Deke Dickerson’s newest band venture , Deke Dickerson and the Ecco-Fonics.

Rounding out the Ecco-Fonics will be Trevor Lake (Texas Headphones) on bass and Chris Sprague (Los Straitjackets) on drums

Dickerson is a veteran of the Southern California roots music scene and has toured for years with various bands, including the Dave and Deke Combo and Deke Dickerson and The Whippersnapppers. His former band members have gone on to play with Social Distortion, X, Tiger Army, and Los Straitjackets.

Dickerson is the author of Sixteen Tons: The Merle Travis Story (BMG Books, 480 pages), the first-ever full-length biography devoted to Country Music Hall of Fame member Merle Travis, a brilliant, multitalented, and deeply troubled artist who is widely considered a genius. He has also had two books published by Voyageur Press, The Strat in the Attic and The Strat in the Attic 2. As a well-known historian of roots music, Dickerson has contributed liner notes to reissue projects for such labels as Capitol, RCA, Bear Family, and Sundazed, and has written for several guitar magazines.

In 2019 Dickerson won the Ameripolitan Music Award for Musician of the Year.

https://dekedickerson.com/

https://trevorlake.bandcamp.com/

https://www.facebook.com/chris.sprague.50/

Tickets: $20 and on sale right now at https://abilene.showare.com and at the bar