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title: With Brandon Combs
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# With Brandon Combs

## Record

### With Brandon Combs

**Summary.** Drummer. USC Thornton: the toga-party set with Luke Walton, Cat Rose Smith, and Rob Nagelhout, and Justin Klunk's band in 2011; later drummed for Leon Bridges.

Drummer. USC Thornton: the toga-party set with Luke Walton, Cat Rose Smith, and Rob Nagelhout, and Justin Klunk's band in 2011; later drummed for Leon Bridges. Collaborator hub for Luke F. Walton and Scoobert Doobert credits with Brandon Combs. Status on site: partial. USC-era live sets only; no named release or press footprint located for these lineups. Brandon Combs drummed on a USC Thornton toga-party set with Luke Walton (guitar), Cat Rose Smith (vocals), and Rob Nagelhout (bass), one short-lived Thornton lineup among many. In 2011 he also drummed in Justin Klunk's band with Luke: Torrance (May 2) and Nisei Week (August 14). Public profiles later place Combs in Leon Bridges' band. With Luke Walton: USC Thornton toga party set (Walton guitar · Cat Rose Smith vocals · Rob Nagelhout bass · Combs drums · reconstructed from memory); Torrance (May 2, 2011) (May 2, 2011 · somewhere in Torrance · venue not named · Luke Walton guitar · Justin Klunk saxophone · Barry Harris keys · Combs drums · Rob Nagelhout bass); Nisei Week (August 14, 2011) (August 14, 2011 · performing for Justin Klunk · Combs drums · Barry Harris keys · Rob Nagelhout bass · Annie Dingwall joined on stage). Press on Brandon Combs releases: Pearl Drums: Brandon Combs, SoundBetter: Brandon Combs. Related hubs: Rob Nagelhout, Cat Rose Smith, Justin Klunk, Barry Harris.

- Themes: collaborator, Brandon Combs, brandon-combs, With Luke Walton
- Record id: with:brandon-combs

Archived from https://lukefwalton.com/with/brandon-combs/. Canonical: https://lukefwalton.com/with/brandon-combs/. This is a surface record: a normalized public-canon summary built from the same data modules as the live page, not a copy of the rendered page.