{"id":645779,"date":"2024-12-02T21:12:26","date_gmt":"2024-12-02T18:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/cass-mccombs-at-the-beginning\/"},"modified":"2024-12-02T21:12:26","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T18:12:26","slug":"cass-mccombs-at-the-beginning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/cass-mccombs-at-the-beginning\/","title":{"rendered":"#Cass McCombs, at the beginning"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"content_blocks\">\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<style>\n<p> article.custom .custom-title, article.custom .custom-media .caption {\n   color: ;\n }<\/p>\n<p> article.custom .custom-attribution, article.custom .custom-attribution a {\n   color: ;\n }<\/p>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-265811\" class=\"content_block flush title center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"custom-title\">\n      Cass McCombs, at the beginning\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"custom-description\">\n      <i>Seed Cake on Leap Year<\/i>, a collection of early recordings from the enigmatic songwriter, quietly reveals something essential about his creative instincts.\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"custom-attribution\">\n<div class=\"author\">\n    <span><br \/>\n      By <span class=\"credit_name\">Alex Robert Ross<\/span><br \/>\n  <\/span><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"custom-media\">\n<div class=\"triple_gutter_left triple_gutter_right image center_align\">\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1440,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/image1_bv2tvo\/cass-mccombs-photo-by-jason-quever.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_220,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/image1_bv2tvo\/cass-mccombs-photo-by-jason-quever.jpg 220w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_300,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/image1_bv2tvo\/cass-mccombs-photo-by-jason-quever.jpg 300w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/image1_bv2tvo\/cass-mccombs-photo-by-jason-quever.jpg 400w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_600,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/image1_bv2tvo\/cass-mccombs-photo-by-jason-quever.jpg 600w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_750,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/image1_bv2tvo\/cass-mccombs-photo-by-jason-quever.jpg 750w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_840,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/image1_bv2tvo\/cass-mccombs-photo-by-jason-quever.jpg 840w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_960,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/image1_bv2tvo\/cass-mccombs-photo-by-jason-quever.jpg 960w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1260,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/image1_bv2tvo\/cass-mccombs-photo-by-jason-quever.jpg 1260w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1800,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/image1_bv2tvo\/cass-mccombs-photo-by-jason-quever.jpg 1800w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/image1_bv2tvo\/cass-mccombs-photo-by-jason-quever.jpg 2400w,\" sizes=\"100vw\" alt=\"Cass McCombs, at the beginning\"><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"img_caption\"><\/p>\n<p>    <span class=\"caption\"><br \/>\n      Cass McCombs. Photo by Jason Quever.<br \/>\n    <\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <span class=\"credit\"><br \/>\n      \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"custom_share_buttons_top \" style=\"\">\n<div id=\"new_socials_bottom\" class=\"new_socials_footer  \">\n<p>      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" width=\"40\" height=\"40\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thefader.com\/assets\/FDR_SocialSharing_Facebook-747312c39722d47504a80f02500b8d4ad2e36acf922bad1c83799db1bc77f605.png\"><br \/>\n      <!-- <span>Share<\/span> --><\/p>\n<p>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target='\"new\"' href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thefader.com%2F2024%2F12%2F02%2Fcass-mccombs-seed-cake-interview%3Futm_source%3Df%26utm_medium%3Dtw%26utm_campaign%3Dshare&amp;text=Cass%20McCombs,%20at%20the%20beginning&amp;via=thefader\" class=\"new_social_footer_button twitter new_social_share_button\" data-ga-event-category=\"Social Share\" data-ga-event-label=\"Twitter\" data-ga-on=\"click\" data-ga-event-action=\"cilck\"><\/p>\n<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" width=\"40\" height=\"40\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thefader.com\/assets\/FDR_SocialSharing_Twitter-8d78f695280aa3f8a4461702c68e9fcbfd6042af1600c62d49fdec4b735fb57a.png\"><br \/>\n    <!-- <span>Tweet<\/span> --><br \/>\n  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thefader.com\/assets\/logo-snapchat-5f1563935ac089d0cf1773f642ddbfb6cdb16e8c4ac14fec95a3c11b6f963389.svg\"><br \/>\n        <!-- <span>Snap<\/span> --><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-265818\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            <span class=\"lead-text\">Cass McCombs is a wanderer.<\/span> He\u2019s described himself in the past as a nomad, and reviews of his early albums almost all mention him sleeping in cars, on couches, and at campsites across the United States. Before releasing his debut album a little over two decades ago, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_new\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vulture.com\/2019\/02\/interview-cass-mccombs.html\">he worked dozens of odd jobs<\/a> \u2014 projectionist, demolition worker, painter \u2014 and it\u2019s difficult to say whether or for how long he\u2019s had a fixed address in the years since. There was a period in New York and some time spent in Baltimore, intermittent stays in California, where he was born, and a spell in London. Details are difficult to pin down, mostly because McCombs has no interest in discussing them.\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            He has often been portrayed as aloof with the press, rather unfairly. I\u2019ve interviewed him around his last two albums, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_new\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/cass-mccombs-tip-of-the-sphere-interview\/\">2019\u2019s <i>Tip of the Sphere<\/i><\/a> and 2022\u2019s <i>Heartmind<\/i>, and he\u2019s spoken without hesitation about music, grief, and the Bhagavad Gita. McCombs says he just doesn\u2019t want to weigh his music down with needless biography. <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_new\" href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/features\/interview\/8701-cass-mccombs\">In one early interview<\/a>, he said he was grateful that we know little about the great writers and thinkers of antiquity: \u201ctheir art is powerful because they&#8217;re mysterious.\u201d Since then, he has written about fringe characters and obscure histories, giving equal weight to religious texts and everyday America, improvising and unmooring himself from linear ideas about songwriting and performance. He has become American pop music\u2019s greatest living mystic.\n          <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-265819\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left image\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1440,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Cass_McCombs_PR_1_by_Steve_Gullick_xywoon\/cass-mccombs-photo-by-steve-gullick.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_220,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Cass_McCombs_PR_1_by_Steve_Gullick_xywoon\/cass-mccombs-photo-by-steve-gullick.jpg 220w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_300,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Cass_McCombs_PR_1_by_Steve_Gullick_xywoon\/cass-mccombs-photo-by-steve-gullick.jpg 300w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Cass_McCombs_PR_1_by_Steve_Gullick_xywoon\/cass-mccombs-photo-by-steve-gullick.jpg 400w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_600,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Cass_McCombs_PR_1_by_Steve_Gullick_xywoon\/cass-mccombs-photo-by-steve-gullick.jpg 600w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_750,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Cass_McCombs_PR_1_by_Steve_Gullick_xywoon\/cass-mccombs-photo-by-steve-gullick.jpg 750w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_840,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Cass_McCombs_PR_1_by_Steve_Gullick_xywoon\/cass-mccombs-photo-by-steve-gullick.jpg 840w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_960,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Cass_McCombs_PR_1_by_Steve_Gullick_xywoon\/cass-mccombs-photo-by-steve-gullick.jpg 960w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1260,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Cass_McCombs_PR_1_by_Steve_Gullick_xywoon\/cass-mccombs-photo-by-steve-gullick.jpg 1260w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1800,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Cass_McCombs_PR_1_by_Steve_Gullick_xywoon\/cass-mccombs-photo-by-steve-gullick.jpg 1800w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Cass_McCombs_PR_1_by_Steve_Gullick_xywoon\/cass-mccombs-photo-by-steve-gullick.jpg 2400w,\" sizes=\"100vw\" alt=\"Cass McCombs, at the beginning\"><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"img_caption\"><\/p>\n<p>    <span class=\"caption\"><br \/>\n      Cass McCombs. Photo by Steve Gullick<br \/>\n    <\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <span class=\"credit\"><br \/>\n      \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-265823\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-265820\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            In that context, it is a little strange to hear <i>Seed Cake On Leap Year<\/i>, a collection of previously unreleased songs from McCombs\u2019s early years. Released in October by Domino Records alongside reissues of his first two full-length records, <i>Seed Cake on Leap Year<\/i> comprises 10 songs McCombs recorded at the turn of the millennium. There is no mystery about where, when, or how these songs were recorded. This all h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ened between 1999 and 2000, inside Jason Quever\u2019s apartment at 924 Fulton Street in San Francisco. McCombs played into Quever\u2019s Tascam 388 mixer.\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            Why release this music now, then? \u201cThere&#8217;s no reason,\u201d McCombs said over a broken phone line a few days before the record came out in October. \u201cI don&#8217;t know why we&#8217;re releasing it. Every time I would talk with Jason though, over the years, we would bring up these old songs that nobody&#8217;s ever heard except us. It felt like it could be something, finally.\u201d\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            Listening to <i>Seed Cake on Leap Year<\/i> feels a little like eavesdropping. Many of the songs are raw and embryonic, half of them set to a clash of hard-strummed acoustic guitars, improvised percussion, and a droning accordion. On those songs \u2014 particularly \u201cAnchor Child,\u201d \u201cGum Tree,\u201d and the classically down-and-out \u201cWasted Again\u201d \u2014 McCombs sounds nothing like the tenor-shaman of later years. His voice is often sharp and bony, struggling to be heard above the clatter at his back. Sonically, they have more in common with the wild-eyed psychedelic folk of Elephant 6 than anything McCombs would go on to record. Other songs have a faded grandeur that\u2019s perhaps more recognizable at first. Here McCombs sounds softer, his voice a little more hypnotic. \u201cIf I Was a Stranger\u201d is a sweet ballad led by a box piano, and the swooning \u201cBaby,\u201d with its girl-group backing vocals, has a wooziness to it that McCombs would run with two years later on <i>A<\/i>.\n          <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-265821\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            <iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 350px; height: 470px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=1925725691\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/transparent=true\/\" seamless><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cassmccombs.bandcamp.com\/album\/seed-cake-on-leap-year\">Seed Cake On Leap Year by Cass McCombs<\/a><\/iframe>\n          <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-265824\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-265810\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            McCombs remembers giving very little thought to his lyrics in this era, describing them as \u201cjust sounds\u201d to fit the melodies that might occasionally, almost accidentally, produce some meaning. But the stream-of-conscious nature of the lyrics reveals even more about McCombs\u2019s poetic instincts. He was clearly drawn to many of the same big questions he tried to answer in the coming years, even if the meaning is a little obscure. \u201cGum Tree\u201d has the seed of a Zen-like regard for nature that McCombs would refine over the years, and both \u201cIf I Was a Stranger\u201d and \u201cYou\u2019re So Satanic\u201d have religious undertones that reemerge on future albums. On \u201cAlways in Transit,\u201d he sings explicitly about nomadism and its ill effects: \u201cMy mind is a junkyard \/ Pathways covered in bone \/ Always in transit \/ Never at home.\u201d\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            Moments like these have kept me coming back to <i>Seed Cake on Leap Year<\/i> in the past few months. These songs reach forwards, not backwards. They are messy and imperfect, but they are true and honest. Rather than tethering McCombs\u2019s music to some heavy biographical ballast, they offer a glimpse of an artist at the beginning of a journey. Or, as McCombs wrote in an email last month: \u201cFlaws are just artifacts of the miracle explosion that is life.\u201d\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            This conversation mostly took place over the phone, but McCombs expanded on some of the questions over email. The transcript has been edited for concision, and McCombs\u2019s written answers \u2014 which mostly have little in common with answers from the spoken interview \u2014 have been broken out in italics for clarity.\n          <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<hr><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-265814\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            <b>What do you remember about listening back to the songs that make up <i>Seed Cake on Leap Year<\/i> for the first time?<br \/><\/b><br \/>More than anything, it brought back a feeling. I don&#8217;t really remember a lot of those days, but I have a feeling of being young. More than anything it was emotional, more than specific shapes. It was more of an orb \u2014 a throbbing, amoebic force \u2014 than it was anything tangible.\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            <b>What emotions did it conjure? What did the orb look and feel like?<br \/><\/b><br \/>I didn&#8217;t have any clue what I was doing. I had no expectations. I had next to zero ambition. Nothing really seemed possible, including even finishing the songs \u2014 much less it ever being released or heard by anybody. It reminded me that we make music essentially for ourselves. All people do. Just to see if we can express one thing; see if you can extract it from your imagination. It really struck me that I was troubled back then, and I think I might still be like that. That&#8217;s what it brought up, is what a lost person I was at the time.\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            <b>I&#8217;m not sure if you would still consider yourself a lost person now. <br \/><\/b><br \/>I have my days.\n          <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-265813\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left video\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"video_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\" style=\"padding-top: 56.25%;\">\n<p>    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Cass McCombs - I&#039;ve Played This Song Before (Official Video)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3vIxje8cu70?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n \/\/trackYouTubeVideo('265813');\n<\/script><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-265817\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            <b>There is a rawness to these songs, a sense of things being unvarnished. Does it feel at all uncomfortable releasing that music to the world?<br \/><\/b><br \/>It&#8217;s very revealing. It was scary to even open up that Pandora&#8217;s Box. But I&#8217;ve made a lot of different styles of music \u2014 improvisational music and then songs \u2014 and even songs, I&#8217;ve changed my approach to songwriting over the years. There are lots of different ways to approach it. That&#8217;s why I feel very lucky, because I&#8217;ve had this opportunity to really explore and change \u2014 explore my imagination and not really get stuck on one thing.\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            <i>just yesterday, a thelemite told me we are living in the aon of the child, and that makes a lot of sense. I always like characters to be a little immature and unreliable, so nothing we made in that spirit could be embarrassing. The rawer and more careless the better, then and now.<br \/><\/i><br \/><b>San Francisco at that time seemed like a fertile place creatively. What do you remember about the community around your music at the time?<br \/><\/b><br \/>In hindsight, it was fertile. I don&#8217;t think we really realized it at the time, we just felt so young and didn&#8217;t know anything. But now we all realize that it was special and supportive. We were all making different kinds of music. We were all doing our own unique thing. That was encouraged: to do something different. So you&#8217;d get shows where there would be noise musicians and experimental artists. There was more of an ethos than anything aesthetic.\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            <i>every artist or band does their own thing and it imparted on me to search myself to do something starkly different too. if your music sounded too much like someone else, they made fun of you. it was a sort of failed revolution, the ethos and our actions obliterated from memory, but that&#8217;s ok, it&#8217;s stronger this way. i&#8217;m hopelessly unsentimental but it should be said some of our soldiers have died but the ideal they lived is still burning. the search never ends.<br \/><\/i><br \/><b>Do you think you&#8217;ve carried that ethos with you since?<br \/><\/b><br \/>In some ways. I&#8217;m a little skeptical of business, wary of it, and protective of my creativity.\n          <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-265816\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left pull_quote\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"pull_quote\"><p>I didn\u2019t have any clue what I was doing&#8230; Nothing really seemed possible, including even finishing the songs.<\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-265812\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            <b>What do you think are the key differences between the artist and human that you hear on <i>Seed Cake on Leap Year<\/i> and the songwriter that you hear on recent albums? <br \/><\/b><br \/>Well, probably a lot. The first thing that comes to mind is that I never thought about people reading my lyrics. Now I pretty much write the words first. I have to feel good about the lyrics before anything. Back then, the words were just sounds. Every once in a while something might have meaning, but mostly it&#8217;s just music.\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            <b>You&#8217;ve said more than once that you consider yourself lucky to have been able to explore and to be protective of your creativity. Do you really think it&#8217;s luck? Do you think there&#8217;s another part to it? Is there something that another person could replicate or borrow?<br \/><\/b><br \/>Well, I don&#8217;t know what other people can learn from me. I don&#8217;t know where songs come from. There&#8217;s no formula. But what I appreciate is the time to be open to whatever comes in. I give myself a lot of time to do that. Sometimes I&#8217;m climbing up the walls. Sometimes it&#8217;s really just sitting around waiting for nothing, just wasting time. But time is the freest thing that I can think of.\n          <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-265815\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left video\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"video_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\" style=\"padding-top: 56.25%;\">\n<p>    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Cass McCombs - Baby (Official Video)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tl9PQDFwVLY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n \/\/trackYouTubeVideo('265815');\n<\/script><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"author\">\n    <span><br \/>\n      By <span class=\"credit_name\">Alex Robert Ross<\/span><br \/>\n  <\/span><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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