Bio

A fifth-generation Idahoan, Acuff grew up watching his hometown Coeur d’Alene transform before his
eyes. One by one, the lumber mills closed down as a blue-collar town turned into a ritzy resort escape
for elites from around the country. Acuff’s childhood was full of music — Willie Nelson, Hank Williams,
bluegrass — that situated all the changes he witnessed in a long lineage of working-class American
struggle, and soundtracked the nostalgia felt by watching a way of life become bygone. By the time Acuff released his 2020 debut Life Of A Rolling Stone, his perspective and concerns as an artist were already fully-formed. He’d make two more albums while living in Idaho, 2021’s If I Were The Devil and 2022’s Honky Tonk Heaven before moving to Nashville to record 2023’s Western White Pines and 2024’s American Son with producer Eddie Spear (Zach Bryan and Brandi Carlile).