Long liked to tell the soon to be 42-year-old Cass McCombs nothing about his past. Interviews he gave, therefore, only rarely and exclusively in writing. People should rather hear his Songs than with his private life to deal with.

But over the years, the Californian Singer-Songwriter available. He openly talked about how much he had hated high school. At times, he held them only under LSD. After the completion of McCombs enrolled in any University. Rather, he followed his student friends by the States. The days he spent reading in libraries. A Stay he had at the time. At the beginning of the zero years, he landed in New York and to the booming Anti-Folk scene and locked himself in.

Moves between the styles of music: The Songwriter MacCombs. Video: YouTube/KEXP

And also today, Cass McCombs is a music rebel who wants to according to its own information, “Genres” destroy. Critics rank his previous long-player nevertheless, Once you write Folk, then Country, Blues or garage rock.

The Germany radio Cass McCombs’ Songs are referred to as the classic Slow Burner. And also the socio-critical, sometimes sarcastic songs on the ninth Album, “Tip of the Sphere” (2019) need time to unfold.

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Created: 07.11.2019, 11:33 PM