I'm surprised you kept those guitars in there - they're wildly out of tune. I actually had a friend who, I had sent him one of the first songs we did, and he was like, "I like the song. You don't go for perfection in the studio, though, right? I don't know, just loud guitars with bad tones. performed by Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats on Amazon. But for the record - I don't know, the version we had demoed before was a little too "dad rock," so we're trying to keep away from that as much as possible. performed by Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats Prev Next. We do a different version of it live it's more like a Tom Petty song. That makes me think of the song "I've Been Failing," which you've said is one of your favorite songs on this album. I don't know, I feel like the songs require me to be a part of them, and those parts really move me, so I feel like it's on me to do the best I can to be real with it. I think it's a lot of not talking, and less drinking. It's been a challenge as far as how many nights in a row you can do that, but we're figuring that out - or I am, rather. Well, it's a part of the song - so it's just the work you've gotta do. How do you maintain that intensity, and bring that to a song every time you sing it? I hope it lasts, and I hope other people have new and inventive ways to play soul and R&B that are real and a part of them. It's just a bummer that it went away, so I'm excited that it's back. It's kind of the beauty of the history of music in the United States, and what the different cultures that came here made. But yeah, I think there's a resurgence of this style - and soul and R&B and blues and all that kind of stuff is still, you know, Americana music. I really wanted to try to mix that Southern soul sound with with a little bit of honky-tonk, and what our Missouri roots are. I mean, it falls into the vein of R&B and soul, but the stuff that was influencing me was the Bang sessions of Van Morrison and Sam & Dave and Otis Redding. There's a retro feel, certainly, to this music. 1 Rateliff has performed with a backing band called the Night Sweats for an R&B side project he formed in 2013. I'm just mostly waiting for backlash - like, "Well, something's gonna go wrong at some point." Nathaniel David Rateliff (born October 7, 1978) is an American singer and songwriter based in Denver, Colorado, whose influences are described as folk, Americana and vintage rhythm & blues. But yeah, it was a surprise! It's still a surprise. Nathaniel Rateliff: I've never really had a hit before, I so I don't know what the perfect equation is for it. Hear their conversation at the audio link, and read an edited version below.Īrun Rath: Were you surprised that "S.O.B." took off? It's got a good groove, obviously. Rateliff, the band's leader and songwriter, spoke with NPR's Arun Rath about rolling with the punches of an unexpected hit, and landing himself in the middle of an equally unexpected style revival. First Listen Review: Nathaniel Rateliff, 'Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats'
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