Nashville blues punkers Natural Child have already received many comparisons to Neil Young & Crazy Horse, The Stones, and The Stooges, and today they release their new 7-inch as further evidence to warrant all of that. The 7-inch, as well as a pack of rolling papers, is out on Jeffrey Drag Records, a musician-run label in Nashville known for their limited edition cassette and vinyl release from some of the most talked about local Rocky Top Tennessee garage, country blues, and straight up rock n’ roll bands currently on the scene. Natural Child may want to get you high and blow your mind with their amps, but they’ve also been pretty busy this year, as they only recently released their second LP For the Love of the Game back in April, and have another full length dropping in less than a month
This new 7-inch features the single “Mother Nature’s Daughter,” a track that most strongly warrants comparisons to Neil Young & Crazy Horse in their heyday; as it pulls pretty heavily from those 1970s meandering jams with environmentally conscious sensibilities. Fittingly, the song has its musical peaks and valleys of intensity. The descent into the eye of the storm is interpreted by a wild dueling guitar solo, anchored by a bassline that leads into an uprising of harmony, that goes right up to the top of jam-out mountain before reaching the peak and free-falling down again. B-side “Bodyswitchers Pt. II” is the ‘slow jam’ propelled by this awesomely dirgy bass line bass that becomes increasingly heavy, with touches of wailing guitars and shouted words increasingly frustrated. The Stooges are a more appropriate comparison, with a sentiment that starts out with just a bit of a dark swagger coming through simple lyrics like ‘I wonder if she’ll call me / Guess we’ll see’ before escalating into repeated shouting of ‘Never again.’
Natural Child’s third LP Hard in Heaven is set to be released on September 11th on Burger Records. Their upcoming single off that takes their serious licks in a less serious direction, and is called “B$G P$MP$N,” which you can download over at Spinner. You bet they’re touring in support of all of this, playing shows through the end of September – all dates below:
NATURAL CHILD TAKE TEXAS w/ Birdcloud
9/1 – Lubbock, TX @ Depot Oyster Bar
9/2 – Austin, TX @ 29th St Ballroom
9/3 – Houston, TX @ Fitzgerald’s
9/4 – Beaumont, TX @ Victoria House
9/6 – McAllen, TX @ Simon Sez
9/7 – Corpus Christie, TX @ Theo’s
9/8 – Laredo, TX @ Old No. 2
9/10 – Tucson, AZ @ Plush
9/11 – Tempe, AZ @ Yuca Tap Room
9/12 – Las Vegas, NV @ Neon Reverb Festival
9/13 – Long Beach, CA @ Alex’s Bar
9/15 – San Diego, CA @ San Diego Noise Pop Festival
9/17 – San Francisco, CA @ Elbo Room
9/18 -.Santa Cruz, CA The Blue Lagoon
9/19 – Eureka, CA @ The Shanty
9/20 – Portland, OR @ Rotture
9/21 – Vancouver, BC @ Olio Festival
9/22 – Seattle, WA @ The Comet
9/24 – Fargo, ND @ The Aquarium
9/25 – Minneapolis,MN @ 7th St. Entry
9/28 – Detroit, MI @ Lager House Parking Lot
