Cass McCombs
“There Can Be Only One”
Big Wheel and Others (out Oct 15 on Domino)
Throwback, Americana singer-songwriter, Cass McCombs, is the rambli-est of ramblin’ men — spending most of his adult life leading a nomadic existence. His perpetually itchy feet are a constant of his dusty, freewheeling sound, weaving road tales as ambiguous and complicated as the man himself. As I’d imagine he’d be in person, his music is wildly inconsistent. And like all successful ramblers, when he’s good, goddamn it, he’s good.
