Natural Child served up thick cut outlaw boogie at Lodge Room
Good ol’ boys and charismatic outlaws gathered in their masses Saturday night for the return of legendary Nashville rascals Natural Child to the hallowed halls of Lodge Room for an evening of thick cut southern fried boogie rock that hit with the incomparable satisfaction of a crispy shower beer on the first morning of a long weekend.
Hometown favorites The Memories warmed up the crowd with a setlist of affable stoner jams and locals-only dive bar anthems that cruised with the easy confidence of a Sunday morning wake-and-bake. Top shelf originals rubbed shoulders with scruffy takes on certified classics from Daniel Johnston to Sublime as The Memories tapped directly into the crowd's collective dopamine receptors to deliver a feel good contact high that got the whole room buzzing. Occasionally dropping into high gear, The Memories proved more than capable of ripping harder than a juiced up Kawasaki on a back forty DIY dirt track when the mood hit just right, reinforced by impressive feats of beer fueled athleticism that elicited hoots and hollers from the rowdy crowd.
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Natural Child's Nashville roots run deep, drawing influence from outlaw country and southern rock in equal measure as the core tenets of their sound, fleshed out with krautrock-inspired motorik rhythms and beachy, yacht rock dalliances that keep the party vibing from the NASCAR to the Spritz without missing a beat. The setlist featured selections from across their expansive catalog, highlighting the band's versatility and authentic synchronicity with the heartbeat of America.
But it was the deep fried guitar heroics that really got the crowd revved up, as the band unleashed epic waves of wild and wooly electric mayhem that instigated explosions of frothy mosh and jubilant crowd surfing amidst torrents of tossed beer and puffs of hand rolled home-grown. Tearing through the back half of the evening like a rocket propelled Chevy Nova SS firing on all cylinders, Natural Child closed the main set with a colossal rendition of Steppenwolf's "Born To Be Wild," the hard rock blueprint tweaked and custom tuned for maximum performance before returning to the stage after the customary pause to keep the good times rolling for one more round before the lights came up.
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