“That old soul stuff meant a lot to him when we were young,” says Pope. Rateliff released an album on Rounder Records with a backing band called The Wheel, but despite the critical success of that and subsequent albums, he was still trying to find the right sound, the right outlet for what he needed to say.Ī set of rough demos recorded in the early 2010s and based on old Stax and Motown records pointed Rateliff in a new direction.
Their first band, Born in the Flood, attracted some major-label interest, but the pair had moved on by then, gravitating from heavy rock toward a folksier sound. In 1998 Pope and Rateliff moved to Denver where they worked nightshifts at a bottle factory and a trucking company while testing out their songs at open-mic nights. “Music was what we thought would save us.” “We would walk around these deserted country roads and talk about music all the time, how it can change the world and how it could change our world,” recalls Night Sweats bassist Joseph Pope III. Music became an obsession for him and his friends. Growing up in Hermann, Missouri, a small town with a booming tourism industry as well as a rampant meth epidemic, he started his music career playing in his family’s band at church, but that came to a tragic end when his father was killed in a car accident. Like his heroes, Rateliff has always been an omnivorous listener and player. “The future of this band is to take everything we’ve ever done in the past and just do it with our own little twist,” says Rateliff. There are familiar elements of soul and garage rock, but also jazz and folk and even country: the crackling energy on opener “Shoe Boot,” the cathartic sing-along of “Coolin’ Out,” the melancholy folk of the closing title track.
These songs are grounded in old-school soul and r&b but are far too urgent for the retro or revivalist tag. The result is the aptly titled Tearing at the Seams, a vivacious and inventive full-band record, with significant contributions from all eight members of The Night Sweats. In other words, the Missouri-bred, Denver-based frontman wanted to make the band disappear along with him-out in the middle of the desert at first, and then deep in the woods. I wanted the guys to feel like they were giving something to the project beyond just playing.” But for this new record, I felt like we’d all spent so much time on the road that we should all go off somewhere together. “For the first Night Sweats record, I demo’ed everything up and created most of the parts. The auction ran from December 3-13.Īnd It’s Still Alright can be bought here.Contact: a long time I always had to go off on my own,” says Nathaniel Rateliff of his creative process. Rateliff also recently joined Mark Knopfler, Nick Lowe, George Benson, Joe Satriani, Weezer, Leon Bridges, Graham Nash and other artists who donated instruments to the National Independent Talent Organization’s (NITO) Guitar and Stringed Instruments Auction.
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Rateliff’s TV promotion for the album included spots on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, and, last month, Jimmy Kimmel Live! The album spent eight consecutive weeks at No.1 on the Americana Albums Chart and that title track ruled Triple A Radio for eight weeks in a row, nine on the Americana Singles chart and three at Non-Commercial radio. NPR’s World Café has just placed its title track at No.1 on its Public Radio’s Most Popular Songs Of 2020 list. Louis has enjoyed great success and acclaim this year with his Stax Records album And It’s Still Alright, which came out in February. The 42-year-old singer-songwriter from St.
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