Ace in the Hole played nearly every week at Cheatham Street for six years during the mid to late 1970s, before it broke into the national market in the early 1980s.From the outset, Ace in the Hole played mainly traditional country music, including honky tonk and western swing, by such artists as Bob Wills, Hank Williams, Johnny Bush, George Jones, and Merle Haggard.