Posts Tagged ‘Jacob Dillan Summers’

AVID DANCER – ” Stop Playing With My Heart “

Posted: April 5, 2015 in MUSIC
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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

AVID DANCER – ” Not Far To Go “

Posted: April 2, 2015 in MUSIC
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The opening crunch of Avid Dancer‘s “Not Far To Go” reminds me of Neil Young’s “Cinnamon Girl.” This is a good thing, because Neil Young’s “Cinnamon Girl” is awesome. This song from Jacob Dillan Summers, though, takes different shapes than Young’s straight-ahead crunch classic, heading into dreamy territory thanks to his floating vocals and some very pretty detours.

“I wrote the lyrics to this song while I was in the Marines while anticipating my move to Los Angeles,“I think it was a week before I left. Every day that went by before the trip felt like I was missing on opportunities to start a music career. “Missing everything” “watch days go by”. I left the snowy winter of DC went “through the trees” of Tennessee to “the valley in the sun”. A love song for LA before I ever knew what it was like to live there. So glad I made the trip.”

Avid Dancer’s new album, 1st Bath, is out on April 14th  via Grand Jury Records.

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