Jacob Dillan Summers is not your average indie artist. Raised in a sheltered Christian household, the creative force behind Avid Dancer dropped out of the University of Tennessee when he was a freshman to enlist in the Marines on precisely September 12th, 2001 (though he says that he’d “planned on doing it anyway”). During his service, he was a drummer in the United States Marine Drum & Bugle Corps, playing up to 300 performances a year, in addition to winning top honors for rudimental snare at the annual bugle-and-drum competition.
Following his time with the Marines, Summers moved to Los Angeles, where he began working on the music that would eventually develop into Avid Dancer—a graceful, guitar-led rock-and-roll project tinged with touches of The Byrds, Galaxie 500, and a little psychedelia
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