Summer Dean puts on a hell-of-a show.  Armed with three albums, constant tours, and a hot five-piece band behind her, Summer struts onto every stage with the confidence and vulnerability of a songstress that has cemented her place among the top rank Texas tunesmiths. Her live show takes the concert goer on a ride of original songs blending bravado, vulnerability, and a novelist’s eye for detail. Whether with her full band or all by herself, listeners and watchers are treated to an authentic, funny, and honest storyteller performing her way into legendary status.

There is indeed a rawness and a reality to Dean’s songs which sets her apart as a songwriter of real substance. Her candor is palpable in every syllable and sound of her acclaimed albums, Bad Romantic and The Biggest Life, both profound, vivid documents of the songwriter’s might. It’s no wonder Texas legends like Bruce Robison, wanted to produce her album based on the strength of Dean’s simple iphone-recorded demos, calling her work “bracing.”

Dean has been steadily gaining momentum since the release of her break-out 2021 LP Bad Romantic. Critics hailed Romantic, with Texas Monthly saying Dean showed “deft skill at disarming listeners with her vulnerability,” while the Boot said Dean “spins vibrant tales of her blue-collar life, turning life’s ordinary moments into extraordinary ones.”

Dean’s devotion to honesty in the making of her second album, The Biggest Life, extended in its creation. It’s 13 songs recorded completely analog at The Bunker, Robison’s Lockhart studio, with a hand-picked band of collaborators. It’s a fitting approach for music that leaves nowhere to hide and spares no detail.

That’s precisely what Summer Dean gives you every time; unadorned, universal truths, written and performed by a consequential artist whose singular perspective on the world may just profoundly alter yours.