Chris Naish puts this spin on the recipe for his music- “thrilling garage folk, raw real-life lyrics, wild vocals and you put ‘em on a stage and you’re just getting started.” Sounds good, in print. This Canadian fellow has made sure that his work is available at most Web locations, so those who want to experience NEVER STOP will just have to go to one of their music bookmarks for a sample or a download. Here you will find, as Naish writes, “foot-stamping solo acoustic songs, two broken bottle blues numbers and one Joe Cocker meets Joe Strummer soul shouter.”

So that’s what this listener did – go to one of the sites to experience Chris Naish. The first tune we stumbled across, “Sleep When You’re Dead,” is kinda rap in the lyrics, kinda blues in the feet, and sort of rock in other parts of the body/song. Not bad stuff at all. Apparently the folks around his home area of Alberta in Canada are screaming for him to be played on the local stations and reviewed in print and on the Web. Remember that Naish is (or was) a folk player at times. That’s the news, but then, what is “folk” in this day and age. He pounds some stuff on his CD. He is assisted by the Wasted Nights: Brian Merritt – drums and Morgan Uxbridge – bass. It seems Fyodor Dostoevsky is one of his influences. That’s kinda nice too.

Chris Naish on MySpace

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