The reality and the scope of where our world is right now lent some heaviness to those shows. In this particular setting, it’s a little strange and slightly heartbreaking to only have 175 people there instead of the 10,000 that we would normally play to. What was it like being able to get on an actual stage and perform your new record in front of an audience? Nathaniel Rateliff released And It’s Still Alright in February 2020. Add to it a fraught political climate filled with environmental catastrophe, racial injustice, and mounting anxiety about the next four years, all issues that preoccupy the socially conscious Rateliff, who’s channeled those frustrations into activism and community service via his organization, The Marigold Project.īut much like And It’s Still Alright finds hope in loss and beauty in pain across 10 tracks, Rateliff is still searching for the silver linings in 2020-and looking toward 2021 with cautious optimism. Late-night talk show appearances? If they were going to happen at all, they’d need to happen over Zoom. A massive tour supporting the new record? That would have to be canceled.
NATHANIEL RATELIFF TOUR FULL
Still, it’s difficult to stop ourselves from circling back to the Very Difficult Year, one that started off full of possibility for the 42-year-old singer-songwriter and quickly dissolved into something completely different.
The record showcased a more ruminative side to the bombastic, swaggering bandleader of the rock ‘n’ soul outfit, The Night Sweats, and explored two personal tragedies- the recent death of Rateliff’s close friend, Richard Swift, and the aftermath of a difficult divorce-with tenderness and grace. We talk about writing songs and finding balance.Īnd we talk about Rateliff’s solo album, And It’s Still Alright, released on Valentine’s Day this year to acclaim.
NATHANIEL RATELIFF TOUR SERIES
We talk about his recent return to live music with a series of concerts in front of limited, socially distanced audiences at the famed Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Colorado. It’s a story about losing yourself, but also finding the brazen self-confidence to follow a dream.Nathaniel Rateliff wants to talk about anything other than what he dubs “the semi-pre-apocalyptic world we’re living in right now.” And over the course of a recent phone call, we really try our damndest. Superstar came in at number 20 on the Heatseekers Albums chart, and according to Rose, the album is a "cinematic pop album that tells a story of someone who leaves behind everything they know and love in search for something bigger and more glamorous.
But in 2018 she switched it up with the pop-rock album, Loner, and now, her most recent album, Superstar, that was released in March 2020, continues the with the Rock-pop trend introduced in her previous album. Based right here in Denver, CO, Nathaniel Rateliff and The Night Sweats, released their third studio album, The Future, in November 2021, charting at number 165 on the Billboard 200 and receiving praise from Rolling Stone Magazine, “that mix of Sixties groove workouts and Seventies singer-songwriter truth-seeking pays off on their third album, The Future.” Nathaniel Rateliff leads this merry band of smooth playing gents, and the Night Sweats feature, guitarist Luke Mossman, bassist Joseph Pope III, keyboardist Mark Shusterman, trumpeter Wesley Watkins, saxophonist Andy Wild, and drummer Patrick Meese.įrom Long Island, NY, singer, songwriter, and musician, Caroline Elizabeth Rose began her career as a guitar-strumming country and folk artist, and brought out two albums in the genre.
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