Jess Klein came to this world to pull firebrand power and childlike joy from our darkest shadows.  Her acoustic-driven, hook-laden story songs revel in the polychrome of human experience – joy, rage, sensuality and resilience.The New York Times calls her “A songwriter with a voice of unblinking tenacity.”

Jess has toured the globe performing in pin-drop listening rooms, cozy theaters and at raucous festivals in front of tens of thousands of fans.  She has toured nationally and internationally supporting Arlo Guthrie, Josh Ritter, Damien Dempsey, John Fullbright and Jonathan Byrd and has opened for such legends as Ani DiFranco, Steve Earle and Alejandro Escovedo.  Jess has appeared on Good Morning America and NPR’s All Things Considered and has performed at the Newport, Winnipeg, Falcon Ridge and Philadelphia Folk Festivals as well as Fuji Rock Festival in Japan.

On her tenth album, Dreaming Aloud, she has never sounded more like herself — more open, more spacious, more certain of what she’s here to give. Recorded in Austin, TX with longtime producer Mark Addison (Professor Feathers), the album is built around Klein’s open-tuned baritone acoustic, with production that moves effortlessly between angelic pedal steel and gritty, full-band swampy electric rock. At its heart, it’s an unflinching document of a woman claiming full self-ownership — heartbreaks and all — and bringing that hard-won clarity to a world on the cusp of the unknown. Klein reckons with everything that made her, grieving what’s lost and honoring what shaped her while building something new. But the journey doesn’t end with her: song by song, the album moves from “I” to “we,” from private reckoning to collective call, asking what we might build together if we finally stopped being small.