#Big Wheel and Others

LIVE REVIEWCass McCombs @ Music Hall of Williamsburg

New York City and nomadic guitar-man and songwriter Cass McCombs may seem mutually exclusive, but in fact, he used to live here, sometime between stints in Concord, California (his hometown), Baltimore and San Francisco. Throughout a seven-album-long career, McCombs has never settled. To listen to...

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VIDEO REVIEWCass McCombs "Unearthed"

The contents of Cass McCombs' long and winding double album Big Wheel and Others fall into one of two categories. About half are capital-s Songs, with verses and choruses, beginnings, middles, and ends. The rest of the collection expands, with mesmerizing slowness, to fill less rigidly constructed...

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VIDEO OF THE WEEKCass McCombs "Big Wheel

Back in October, enigmatic folk artist Cass McCombs released his seventh full-length, Big Wheel and Others, a double album that led us through hypnotic rhythm cycles and tangential, but beautiful, guitar passages, intimate if shadowed vocal lines, and lyrics that fit together like a Rubik's...

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ALBUM REVIEWCass McCombs "Big Wheel and Others"

In his decade-long career, Cass McCombs has produced seven full-length albums, all deeply interior and intricately crafted, and all known—to varying extents—as meandering, inaccessible folk music that mirrors the artist's own nomadic lifestyle. Californian by birth, McCombs retains a distinctly...

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