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With songwriters like John Mayer and Jack Johnson breaking big, the sky's the limit for this 28 year-old songwriter. His guitar-driven, groove-infused tunes take this fresh rock and roll sub-genre to new levels of musicianship, and pop appeal. "Girlfriends came and went, so did Transformers, G.I. Joe, sports, …but never the guitar. The guitar was always there. It has always been my favorite toy and oldest friend," says Lucas of his life-long love affair with the instrument. He received his first acoustic guitar at age six, and soon after discovered the music of legends Robert Johnson and Jimi Hendrix. It was the guitar work of these virtuosi that inspired him to make the instrument his own. Cas Lucas left his home in Orlando, Florida in 1996 and went north to study composition, performance, production, and blues history at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts. At Hampshire he had the good fortune to study with legendary multi-instrumentalist Yusef Lateef, who's in...