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Born and raised just outside of Detroit, MI, Aaron LaCombe counts himself as lucky to have been raised in a household where music was a priority. In mom’s car it was the Beatles, Billy Joel and the Stones, and in dad’s he’d hear James Taylor, Willie Nelson or Paul Simon. In the hour or so after school when his parents were still at work, he’d sneak into a forbidden basement room to plug in his mom’s old guitar and make what noise he could with the four remaining rusty strings. One day he got caught, and the next his mom softened a bit and took him to the guitar shop for fresh strings and lessons. He learned trumpet in the middle school band and would come home, lock himself in his bedroom and split time between trumpet and guitar.
He was writing songs and playing guitar for his new rock band by the tenth grade, and a few small tastes of high school fame at talent shows and house parties was all it took to seal his fate as a lifelong musician. His style would change dramatically as he moved South and West from Michigan, taking cues from more bare-bones style songwriters like Guy Clark and John Prine that didn’t seem to get any radio play back home.
Distractions abounded in his twenties and thirties as he made a career in the restaurant business, eventually opening three of his own restaurants, each with bars and stages to maintain some connection with music. He made fast friends with many of the musicians that come through to play at his venues, and he eventually built a recording studio of his own and released a couple of independent albums with those same musicians, many of whom became lifelong friends. After a decade or so, the restaurants were taking their toll and allowing less and less time for music, a sacrifice that Aaron couldn’t abide. He sold his restaurants and moved to Austin, TX to live in an Airstream trailer and focus on music full time.
Divorce, financial struggles, and the soul-crushing crestfall of learning what it’s really like to try to break into the Austin music scene gave way to a period of introspection and self-evaluation that led him to discover that his strengths as a songwriter were in the stripping away of artifice; trying to sound like something or someone else. With that came the release of the self-produced album, “Superman, Only Better”, which began to open up some doors and foster connections in the music community.
Growing tired of the Austin scene, Aaron accepted an offer from JayBoy Adams, an artist he met in the restaurant days, to move out to the Hill Country where he could focus on writing and performing. Five studio albums and countless months on the road touring the nation later, he’s found his happy place: on a stool with a guitar in his hand and an attentive audience. August 2024 saw the release of his sixth studio album, “Asking a Lot”, featuring a co-write and duet with Nashville’s Allie Colleen called “Not Okay”. The album was recorded exclusively with acoustic instruments and a bare minimum of technological influence, so the performances of folks like Luke Bulla, Trey Hensley, Oliver Steck, and Mike Witcher would shine through.
Aaron spends about half of the year touring nationally and occasionally internationally and participates in songwriter retreats and events across Texas and beyond. He hosts an online songwriters’ challenge group six years in the running where members turn in a song based on a prompt every 14 days without fail, or face being removed for a year. He writes and records at his home in Kerrville and spends his spare time advocating for the adoption of local shelter pets, photographing them and telling their stories on various social media channels.
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