But when you sign up to party on TV with giant CGI hamsters, those days are necessarily over. It wasn’t long ago that you could catch Rateliff for a curbside interview on any given day on South Broadway. Since the Denver-based singer-songwriter started performing with his spirited soul band, The Night Sweats, he and the band have played some 350 concerts with another 59 already on the books for 2018 - an aggressive clip for any outfit. Nathaniel Rateliff’s time is no longer his own. “It always comes as a surprise and also a real blessing, too.Tuesday, April 18th 2023 Home Page Close Menu “The last five drastically changed in a way I had been trying to work towards, probably 20 years,” he says. Given the popularity of the Night Sweats and the opportunities brought to him as a result, Rateliff acknowledges his journey from being a relatively unknown singer-songwriter to a critically-acclaimed and popular artist.
There's a different intention and there's certainly much more subtlety in this than there is in the Night Sweats, and that's kind of nice-to force yourself to listen to what everybody's doing instead of just trucking along through the songs.” I feel like the guys in the Night Sweats learning these songs will contribute to how we play as the Night Sweats as well. “I feel like it's really nice in a way that it's such a different approach to the way we play in the Night Sweats. “I've been playing some of these shows completely alone, which I really enjoy,” he says. Rateliff recently commenced his virtually sold-out solo tour that will run through August, accompanied by members of the Night Sweats serving as his backing group. It was very cathartic to even be in Richard's studio, and to be writing songs that were about him or about him not being here anymore.” “It's kind of taking me a long time to admit to myself, “ he says, “but writing is a part of my process in dealing with things and moving forward. With the new album out into the world after what he had been through in the last few years-especially coping with Swift's death and the end of his marriage-Rateliff does feel a sense of burden lifted. His family left it open for people to go back and use, which I think is fantastic.” “We tried to approach it thinking, ‘Well, what would he do on this?’ We actually started a record at his studio in Cottage Grove, Oregon last March. “This was going to be a record I had planned to do with Richard, which Pat probably would have been a part of as well,” says Rateliff. Working with Rateliff on the album included co-producers James Barone and Night Sweats drummer Patrick Meese, all of whom had worked with Swift and learned a lot from him. All of that in one got me here and helped me write this record, too.” I feel like I've grown as a musician and a performer, and as a writer and singer. “I just kind of feel like I've taken everything I've learned from the Night Sweats and the shows we play and our time on the road. “There's a lot of similarities in there for sure,” he says. Fans of Rateliff’s earlier work might notice the sound of the new record is a throwback to his pre-Night Sweats albums In Memory of Loss (2010) and Falling Faster Than You Can Run (2013). The moments of melancholy and introspection that surround the record is buoyed by hope and resilience in overcoming personal difficulties. I wanted to be able to talk about that in a song so that it creates a conversation for the listener, and for other people to be able to be vulnerable that thing and talk about it-and then also try to find hope in there and not to feel so devastated and so lost.”
And so I let all of it come out, all the things that I wanted to be able to say, to let him know that even though he was gone that I recognized and shared that same unexplainable brokenness. I immediately felt like I was trying to say something to Richard.
“I think I had the phrase ‘rush on’ in my head. “I don't really know where it came from,” the singer says. The other song inspired by Swift is the album’s emotional and stark ballad “Rush On,” which is further elevated by Ratefliff's very powerfully moving vocal performance.
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