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Cas Lucas

Cas Lucas Radio

General Info

  • Genre: Acoustic / Rock / Soul

    Location San Francisco, Un

    Profile Views: 115036

    Last Login: 11/27/2011

    Member Since 3/18/2005

    Website www.caslucas.com

    Record Label Backline Records

    Type of Label Indie

  • Bio

    PRESS: San Francisco Chronicle .."Amid Diverse Influences, this acoustic guitarist has found his own sound." -Tony Cooper Eureka Times Standard .."Cas Lucas is on the verge of something big... Backed by a strong cast of producers and players and armed with the type of laid-back acoustic groove that has yielded hordes of fans for artists like Jack Johnson and John Mayer, Cas Lucas is poised on the edge of mainstream success. - Joel Hartse Sting .."Cas Lucas is a talented artist. I like what he writes, and I believe he can change peoples' lives... New Times Weekly .."Compared to acoustic-pop artists such as John Mayer and Jack Johnson, Lucas gives his adult alternative pop/rock a blues-tinged feel that has received international critical acclaim... Lucas is a more gifted guitarist than (Jack) Johnson. He's got a casually bell-clear voice, and his breezy tunes bounce along sweetly." - Glen Starkey Beyond the Chron. (Bay Area Weekly) .."Songs like "Dream a Window, and 'Feel You", put him for me, squarely on the path of the great storytellers and songwriters, like Pete Seeger, and John Prine... Watching and listening to Lucas is a joy, because you get the feeling you are watching a true bluesman in the making." - Doc E. Smith (Music Columnist and Award Winning Percussionist) "There's an old soul in Cas Lucas' young body. What wonders where kids like this get such strong world-weary emotions coursing through their throats. On the disconsolate "Home," Lucas reveals, ""I found home at the bottom of a bottle,"" his voice lacking the raspy ache of an aging bluesman but even more troubling because it sounds like the voice of bruised innocence. Mesmerizing guitar picking throughout with Lucas spinning a web with his strings; they should call him Spider-Man for the knots and tangled structures he creates with his fingers. This ain't no simple strumming, lads; Lucas is one talented fellow, a gifted songwriter with a magician's touch on the acoustic guitar. "Giving It Back" is independent music in its purest form, free from any trends or hip stylings."- Adam Harrington, Whisperin and Hollerin-UK Shotgun Magazine .."Listening to Lucas swim through the delicate chords on this LP is akin to watching a flower bloom: You dont know whats happening inside the plant so you just sit there, mesmerized. I can listen to this album for endless hours, let the heavy weight of reality cascade from my shoulders and slip into the aural comforts of Feelin and Dreama Window, the opening and finest tracks on this wonderfully engaging CD." - Kyrby Raine For more press, reviews, and artist info, visit CasLucas.com

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  • Influences

    ..Guitar..: Jimi Hendrix, Robert Johnson, Kelly Joe Phelps, Eric Clapton, Mark Knopfler, Dave Matthews, Jerry Garcia, Ray Phiri, Grant Green, Charlie Hunter, Ben Harper, Raul Midon..... ..Songwriting..: Hendrix again, Paul Simon, Tom Petty, Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, Peter Gabriel, Sting/Police, Dave Matthews Band, Pearl Jam, Daniel Lanois, the Band, Grateful Dead, Allman Brothers, Dire Straits, Otis Redding, Colin Hay, Talking Heads, Beck, Yusef Lateef... ..Singing:.. Paul Simon, Kelly Joe Phelps, Peter Gabriel, Q-tip (and hip hop in general) .. ... those folks and countless other rock, blues, soul, funk, jazz, and world music legends... You know, the Good Stuff. .. ..

  • Sounds Like

    Dave Matthews, Jack Johnson, Ben Harper, Paul Simon, John Mayer, Jimi Hendrix, Sting, G. Love and Special Sauce, Jamie Cullum, the Band, Kelly Joe Phelps, Daniel Lanois, Michael Hedges, Keller Williams, Chris Whitley, Ani Difranco, Eric Clapton, Jason Mraz, Mofro, Allman Brothers, the Police, Dave Matthews Band, Charlie Hunter, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Dire Straits, Peter Gabriel, Martin Sexton, Marc Broussard, James Taylor, Dispatch, Bruce Hornsby... Funky Acoustic/Blues/Rock With Soul...

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