Talk:Cass McCombs

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I'll look for them also, but until I, or anyone else puts them in the article, I've moved this text from the article requesting sources. Thanks, NonvocalScream (talk) 13:09, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

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Before starting his music career he worked for a time at the Park Theater a vintage movie theater built in 1944 in Lafayette, California. At the age of 23 he set off to the East Coast and began networking and performing open mics in New York City and Baltimore. He has spent most of his life traveling the United States, moving from one city to the next, settling at one point in Baltimore and currently in Chicago.. His debut E.P. Not the Way was recorded in San Francisco and was released in 2003 by local indie label (Monitor Records). He toured the U.S. sporadically sometimes with fellow label mates OXES as his backing band. His following two full length records A (Monitor) and most recently PREfection (released on the legendary 4AD Records label) have earned him several European tours, and an opening spot on Modest Mouse's North American tour.

[edit] Music Career

He began playing guitar at the age of 14 and has a public high school education. Since, he has traveled and lived in many places. His first collection of recorded songs, “Not the Way E.P.”, was released in 2002 by Monitor Records of Baltimore, MD, followed the next year by a full-length, “A”, also on Monitor. Both albums were recorded in San Francisco and inspired partly by the events surrounding 9/11/01 and his experience living in New York City at that time. 4AD records of London began to license the albums abroad. In 2005, now joined by a band, McCombs released a concept-album, “PREfection”, through Monitor/4AD. “PREfection”, recorded very quickly in Michigan during the icy month of February, experiments with diverse lyrical subject matter. Although the band dissipated, McCombs performed extensively in the U.S. throughout the next year, mostly as an opening act in the lower rock circuit, picking up band members where he could. Over the years, the live band has changed so frequently, change itself could be considered a theme. Ranging from 8 to 3-piece, electric or acoustic, McCombs has always been fortunate to have his songs interpreted by innovative musicians. Yet, just as "PREfection" was released, nearly all of his working relationships vanished in a matter of weeks, and inevitably he turned his thoughts to making another record. His current release, “Dropping the Writ”, represents yet another shift. Most of the songs were written when McCombs moved back to California, this time southern, in late 2005. Assisted by friends, including some who had contributed to “A”, the new album was recorded partially in a studio as well as in the solitude of his newfound home. The music alternates between mania and wonder, within a song-form that McCombs continues to expand upon lyrically, often with the humorous, wry use of stories plucked from his own life experience. “Dropping the Writ”, an informal term which Wikipedia defines as “the procedure in some government systems where the head of government goes to the head of state and formally advise them to dissolve parliament”, is the first release by McCombs on Domino Records of London.