Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats
Biography
It took Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats less than five years to become one of the most recognizable new forces in contemporary rock ’n’ roll. Since 2015, Rateliff has led his denim-clad, horn-flanked Night Sweats, supplying the zeal of a whiskey-chugging Pentecostal preacher to songs about this world’s shared woes. They’ve had hits, sure, but their combustible mix of soul and rock quickly cemented them as the rare generational band who balanced ecstatic live shows with engrossing and rich records. To wit, is there any other modern act capable of revving up stadium crowds for The Rolling Stones while also appearing on Saturday Night Live and CMT Crossroads and at NPR’s Tiny Desk in short order?
When Rateliff returned from his pandemic-truncated solo tour in March 2020, he struggled with the same question that vexed so many of us then—what now? Fortunately, he returned to his Colorado homestead and penned a set of songs that synthesized his introspection with his anthemic inclinations. The result is The Future, the third Night Sweats album but the first to capture this octet’s true depth and breadth. An instant classic of 11 songs, the album presents something more sustainable, interesting, and indeed open—a songwriter and band growing into bigger questions and sounds, into a future that allows them to remain recognizable but be so much more compelling than some denim-clad caricature.
Video & Press
Nathaniel Rateliffe and the Night Sweats, My Morning Jacket, Team for Co-Headlining Tour
Both bands will perform equal-length sets, switching the order of performances with each show BY ALTHEA LEGASPI [Rolling Stone] My Morning Jacket and Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats have teamed up for a co-headlining tour that runs through September. Dubbed the Eye to Eye Tour, the bands will perform equal-length sets and switch the order […]
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Nathaniel Rateliff Is Here to Help
The Night Sweats singer-songwriter on his social-justice foundation, the Marigold Project, and his next recording project [Rolling Stone] ByJONATHAN BERNSTEIN In 2017, when one of Nathaniel Rateliff’s oldest friends — a carpenter who grew up alongside him and Night Sweats bassist Joseph Pope in Missouri — was injured in a construction accident, Rateliff and Pope knew […]
How Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats Became the Darlings of Rock Radio
[Billboard] By Chris Martins “Last time I was here I got kicked out,” says the barrel-chested singer-guitarist Nathaniel Rateliff, 39, from under a wide-brimmed hat. He’s sitting in The Spare Room, a small, swanky bar and bowling alley inside the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, where he’s either unrecognized or still welcome. “The lady who keeps score […]