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| Chris Stanfield |
When Chris Stanfield and the Naturals took the stage Saturday night at Greene Street Club to open for Unknown Hinson I was cautiously optimistic, as I am about any performer I've never seen or heard before. The Rockingham County raised Stanfield and ensemble are guttural and raw, just the kind of sound and performance that you imagine the early rock and rollers delivered. Stanfield's voice certainly won't ever find an audience with the "American Idol" crowd who likes their music clean and syrupy, but he will find a following in the hard-core rock and roll groupies who thrive on raw, forceful and edgy performances which Stanfield delivers in spades. His screaming style of singing is only enhanced by the way in which he delivers each song - with vein-bulging force that you feel the need to call the paramedics just in case he forces and aneurism. It was a performance that left me exhausted just watching and when it was over I figured he had to have burned off more calories than I do on a treadmill in a week!
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