When Cas Lucas first picked up a guitar, he quickly learned he couldn't put it down. "Girlfriends came and went, so did Transformers, G.I. Joe, sports, but never the guitar," says Lucas of his life-long love affair with the instrument. "The guitar was always there. It has always been my favorite toy and oldest friend."

He received his first acoustic guitar at age six, and as Lucas grew into the instrument, he discovered the music of legends like Robert Johnson and Jimi Hendrix. It was the guitar work of these virtuosi that originally inspired him to make the instrument his own. Lucas polished his guitar skills throughout his teen years, teaching himself to play the riffs and songs of his heroes by ear from their CD's and his family's record collection.

In 1996, Lucas left his home in Central Florida and went north to study music composition, performance, production, and blues history at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts. At Hampshire Lucas had the good fortune to study with legendary, Grammy-winning multi-instrumentalist Yusef Lateef, whose influence added an entirely new element to his playing. "Playing with Yusef in his performance seminars showed me how broad the tonal spectrum could be within a piece of music, " says Lucas. "It made me want to go beyond the standard progressions of blues and rock. Yusef showed me that there really are no wrong notes."

Having completed his studies, Lucas relocated to San Francisco and dove into the vibrant local scene. He has consistently performed around the Bay Area and toured the Western USA (and select shows on the East Coast and Midwest), gaining fans everywhere. Due largely to MySpace buzz and the grass roots promotion of his loyal fans and Street Team, Lucas' national and worldwide followings have started to grow as well, and his first national and European tours are soon to come.

Lucas' knack for creating infectious hooks and the ubiquitous pop sensibilities evoked in his guitar playing have led to frequent comparison with the likes of Jack Johnson, Dave Matthews, John Mayer, and Sting (a Cas Lucas fan himself, who featured Cas on his official MySpace's "top friends" for most of 2006). But Lucas' style is more than that - beyond the hooks and lyrics, his musicianship spans the ages, calling to mind both the passionate intensity of Robert Johnson's raw blues, and the intricate, tonal playfulness of Michael Hedges' instrumental virtuosity.

Having lived through serious adversity, including health issues, years of drug use, addiction, and dealing, and a nearly constant barrage of personal and financial struggles, the depth of Lucas' music decisively sets him apart from many of his contemporaries. Lucas brings to bare the sum of his life's experience in his writing, playing and performing.

Now over three years clean and sober, Cas has come through these darker years with a renewed sense of creative and personal focus, his sense of humor firmly intact, and a backlog of over 150 original songs. Cas Lucas' new CD, "Roads," released in April 2007 (47 Records), is his first full-band recording since his late teens. Working with local producer Adam Rossi (LUCE, Megan Slankard, Brad Wolfe), "Roads" brings Cas' eclectic blues, soul, funk, gospel, and jazz influences to life in 11 laid-back, soulful rock songs.

CLICK TO HEAR STREAMING AUDIO FROM CAS LUCAS, "ROADS" (2007, 47 RECORDS)

Meet The Band:
The newest 5-piece incarnation of the Cas Lucas Band has been playing shows around California and gearing up to hit the road. The band include 21 year old "phenom." drummer, Mitchell Wilcox (the recent winner of the Entire Northern California 2007 Guitar Center "Drum Off")is laying down the beat and sharing the low end with long-time CLB bassist, Josh Srago

The CLB's 2 newest members are Jason Munning on Guitar, Mandolin, & Backing Vocals, and Sacramento/Bay Area veteran Keyboardist, Organist, Singer, Jeff Coleman. Jason's also in SF-based, national touring jamband, Ten Mile Tide, and Jeff was a founding member of the Bay Area band, Home At Last. Both of these two new CLB "ringers" have graced the stage of many a rock festival, club, and pub, sharing the stage with an impressive list of acts from the acoustic rock and jamband world including The Wailers, Dispatch, String Cheese Incident, ALO, Hootie and the Blowfish, MOE, the Slip, Railroad Earth, and Tea Leaf Green.