I don’t know how or when we’ll revisit that – at the moment we’re just working our asses off doing Night Sweats stuff and when that’s done I’ll just see where I’m at.” I’d been touring my records for almost eight years, both solo and with a band so it’s been nice to switch it up. “It’s nice to take a break from that kind of stuff. Rateliff’s winning run with The Night Sweats has seen them play many of the top late-night talk shows and increasingly larger venues but the bandleader won’t rule out a return to his more introspective folk material at a later date. It’ll be interesting to see what the next record will be like with those guys involved from the start.” It was really just me on my own at home recording songs and then I hooked up with the band. Stylistically it was new, I’d always been trying to play the blues and stuff but not really in an RnB style on a regular basis. I started writing and came up with Look It Here and after about a week I had a whole new set of material. So I got excited and felt like I was onto something. He said I could do whatever I wanted and I’ve always wanted to do a soul and r’n’b record and try something different so he said “just write some songs and come down and we’ll work on them”. We’d finished production and a mate said, “Why don’t you come down and record some stuff”, but I’d just finished a record and wasn’t really into doing any singer/songwriter stuff. “I finished recording Falling Faster Than You Can Run, the follow-up record to In Memory of Loss and the record company (Rounder Records) wasn’t going to put it out so I was feeling pretty discouraged really. It was a reinvention, a shift out of solo folk troubadour mode and onto a stage with a larger band, a horn section and a rousing, celebratory feel – even if his lyrical disposition was still a darker one. Within a year Rateliff had taken a bold step in a new musical direction, writing in the style of some of his soul heroes like Otis Redding and Sam Cooke and releasing it under the name The Night Sweats. I think in hindsight it was a very trying time but it gave me a chance to travel and it was a great writing experience for me and good for my music.” about, and so it was a very difficult and lonely time, especially as everyone on that tour was having a great time and I was sober and trying to figure out what I was going to do.
I’d separated from my wife, I’d quit drinking and was going through withdrawals, which is what I wrote the song S.O.B. It would have been later that year that I got into doing the Night Sweats stuff. I came home from that tour and then did another tour and then went into the studio and made that album. “I’d finished writing most of the material for my last solo album Falling Faster Than You Can Run at that point but I hadn’t had a chance to record it yet. It was documented for the music road film Austin To Boston and was one of Rateliff’s last tours as a solo artist.
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That emotional upheaval coincided with a communal two week VW van trip from Austin to Boston with fellow musicians Ben Howard, The Staves, Bear’s Den plus producer Ben Lovett (Mumford & Sons), and narrator Gill Landry (Old Crow Medicine Show). Ahead of his debut Australian shows, Nathaniel Rateliff chats with Chris Familton about the transition from solo artist to leader of the Night Sweats and the ups and downs of being a working musician.Ī few years ago at the SXSW Festival, Nathaniel Rateliff was recently separated from him wife and had given up drinking.
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