With all due respect to the Black Keys, Bone Thugs, Machine Gun Kelly, the Pretenders, Pere Ubu, Joe Walsh and all the other notable musicians who launched out of Northeast Ohio, not one of them can hold a flame to Michael Stanley. So when Mr. Eric Church comes to town for an epic four-hour set and needs one local artist and one local song to cover, it’s only natural that the choice is Stanley’s “My Town.”

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This article appears in Feb 22-28, 2017.

Vince Grzegorek has been with Scene since 2007 and editor-in-chief since 2012. He previously worked at Discount Drug Mart and Texas Roadhouse.