Dean Richard
1855 Saloon and Grill, Cottage Grove 218 S. Main St., Cottage Grove, Wisconsin 53527
press release: A long-time veteran of the music scene, Dean Richard began his career by spending 17 years playing full-time on the small club circuit, doing as many as 250 shows per year. Those years of experience show in the depth of the songs and the musicianship of the recordings that he continues to write and record. He honed his engineering and producer chops during that period, when he also had a home-based recording studio that churned out several local hit songs in his home town of Madison in the '80s and '90s. After a long hiatus to focus on fatherhood and being a parent to his two sons, Dean began playing in the Milwaukee band Incognito, which he did for five years. Since then he has played harmonica, guitar, and sang in the Milwaukee band The Booze Brothers as well as working on his solo projects.