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I grew up in the suburbs and was raised on rap radio, so it took me a long time to stumble upon the acoustic guitar as a resource for anything.

Cass McCombs

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Cass McCombs
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: November 13
Composer
Musician
Record Producer
Singer-Songwriter
Concord
California
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Acoustics
Took
Stumble
Grew
Suburbs
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Anything
Rap
Long
Radio
Time
Guitar
Raised
Acoustic

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Lyrics are my racket music is play - the fluff stuff.
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I project love, music and love, and I pray for peace. A good song cuts straight to the heart sometimes it doesn't need to be too many lines - of course, I do love a good story.
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A baseball team is like a band. Because, conceptually, there are no heroes in baseball - there's just the team.
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I don't know about timeless. I actually think most of what I do is completely modern, but universally modern. Who decides what timeless even means? Are the things that we consider timeless now going to, in fact, be considered timeless in 300 years? Probably not.
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