Mid-tempo pillow-huggers aren’t typically good fodder for radio singles. “You Worry Me,” the album’s lead single, eschews the party-pop of the band’s biggest songs, coursing with concern for someone whose fate is no longer the singer’s responsibility: “I’m all right today / you’re gonna find a way to cross and you’re gonna get there.” “Shoe Boot,” the album opener and the first track the band laid down in the studio with Swift, feels like a woozy stumble down Bourbon Street.Įlsewhere, as it was pre-Night Sweats, blues run the game. The simpering “A Little Honey” glows like a slow dance with an old flame, it’s so warm and nostalgic. That’s not to say there isn’t fun to be had.
Just as he’s come to grips with the power of “S.O.B.,” Rateliff eventually found satisfaction in writing a new Night Sweats album - in part by avoiding the pressure to write anything that resembles that hallmark track. “Regardless of how I feel about it as a writer, I’m going to sing that song for a long time, hopefully.” “The difference between ‘Anthem’ and ‘S.O.B.’ now, though, is I appreciate what ‘S.O.B.’ has done,” Rateliff said. Rateliff didn’t want it to be on the first record at all - Night Sweats drummer Patrick Meese and Richard Swift, the enigmatic producer behind both Night Sweats records, had to convince him to include it. Much like “Anthem,” a song Rateliff came up with on stage at a Denver concert that won him a $150,000 offer from Roadrunner Records that he subsequently declined, “S.O.B.” was written on a lark. What made its success harder to swallow was that, in Rateliff’s own estimation, “S.O.B.” isn’t a great song. “But that’s also not my responsibility as a performer.”
“It was hard because, sometimes, it felt like, man, people just don’t get what I’m talking about,” Rateliff said. Set to a punchy rhythm, that traumatic experience became a hugely popular drinking anthem. The song was inspired by Rateliff’s bout with delirium tremens - a potentially fatal symptom of alcohol withdrawal that’s accompanied by shaking, hallucinations and, yes, sweating. The reaction was a cruel twist of entertainment-industry fate. Spiking the band’s rug-burning Sam & Dave routine with big folk ballads and Americana rock, it’s as much of a bawler as a brawler, toasting to the good times one moment and imagining setting “the whole thing on fire” the next. On March 9, Rateliff and company will release “Tearing at the Seams,” its sophomore effort. “I don’t really have any time for myself or a personal life,” Rateliff said, a trucker hat clamped down over his unkempt tuft of hair. Our conversation, 30 short minutes in a well-appointed office at 7S Management’s headquarters in Denver, came amid a stretch of promo appearances that’s had him doing up to 12 interviews a day for outlets around the world.
BABE I KNOW LYRICS NATHANIEL RATELIFF TV
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. Thursday, February 16th 2023 Home Page Close Menu
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