Cass McCombs (born in Concord, California in 1977) is an American
singer-songwriter and performer. An enigmatic
folk nomad, McCombs is a quintessentially American artist; "he's quietly become one of (the country's) finest chroniclers of
fringe characters, a writer of heart-rending
love songs and
psychedelic odes to the natural world, a teller of tall-tales with a sense of humor dry as desert wood, and that rare folksinger who actually sings about the folk." His vocals range somewhere between the anxious drone of
Lou Reed, the hollow croon of
Elliott Smith, the li…
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