For those unfamiliar, Rateliff describes the area as about as isolated as you can get. Tearing at the Seams was primarily recorded in Rodeo, a town near the border of Arizona on the side of New Mexico. The guts of it came together just jamming out in the greenroom with the rest of the guys.” I was strumming on the thing, and I was in love with it – I was like, ‘Man, everything I play on this thing comes out sounding like a fucking Rolling Stones song!’ I came up with this guitar lick, which ended up being the starting point for ‘Hey Mama’. “I felt really good, so I went out and bought myself a vintage late ’60s Gibson acoustic. “We were touring, and I was amazed that we were actually making money and breaking even on tour for the first time,” he says. While each song on the album was born of different circumstances – a jam session a chance musical encounter – Rateliff traces the song back to a Tom Haverford-approved “treat yo’self” moment. It just took me a long time to finish, for whatever reason.”Īs far as a turning point for Tearing at the Seams is concerned, Rateliffe namechecks ‘Hey Mama’. This was before the Night Sweats had even come together. You’ve also got a song like ‘Coolin’ Out,’ which I came up with on a writing project in Los Angeles. We’ve been playing it since the early days, but we were never able to quite nail it in the studio until we came up with this version that’s finally made it onto a record. That’s a song that’s been around for as long as we’ve been a band. “There’s a few different timelines there,” begins Rateliff, discussing how the songs came to be. It’s for this reason that Tearing at the Seams, the second album from The Night Sweats, was not written across a single stretch.
After all, how do you follow up something so momentous – and, more importantly, how do you better it? With gold sales and sold-out theatres greeting them, the success served as a double-edged sword of sorts. At long last, the singer-songwriter had a firm grip on his musical identity as well as a troupe of exceptional musicians to anchor it to.
Their self-titled 2015 LP was a breakthrough moment for Rateliff, who had been making music in a variety of guises for over a decade prior. Tickets for the August 22 concert with Tank & the Bangas have sold out.In a blaze of bluesy guitars and sizzling horns, Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats have spend the last couple of years asserting their spot among the great live blues bands currently on the circuit. Tickets for the August 23 show at Red Rocks are $46.75 to $86.50 at AXS or by phone at 88 starting today, February 2, at 10 a.m. June 9- Forest Hills, NY-Forest Hills Stadium§Īugust 7-Moorhead, MN-Bluestem AmphitheatreĪugust 9-Missoula, MT-Kettlehouse AmphitheaterĪugust 10-Troutdale, OR-Edgefield AmphitheaterĪugust 22-Denver, CO-Red Rocks Amphitheatre**Īugust 23-Denver, CO-Red Rocks Amphitheatre†† June 8-Boston, MA-Blue Hills Bank Pavilion‡ June 6-Philadelphia, PA-Skyline Stage at the Mann Center June 3-Cleveland, OH-Jacobs Pavilion at Nautica† June 2-Lewiston, NY-Artpark Amphitheater† June 1-Indianapolis, IN-Lawn at White River State Park May 31-Chicago, IL-Huntington Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island† May 12-Louisville, KY-Iroquois Amphitheater* May 11-Asheville, NC-Highland Brewing Company* Rateliff's summer tour, to promote Tearing at the Seams, will begin in Saint Petersburg, Florida, and conclude with his two nights at Red Rocks. You ain't gone far enough to say at least I tried/You ain't worked hard enough to say well I've done mine/You ain't gone far enough to say my legs have failed/You ain't gone far enough/You ain't worked hard enough/You ain't run far enough to say it ain't gonna get any better/You picked a bad time to listen to me. The lesson from "Hey Mama" is one that aspiring musicians and artists - hell, anyone with a goal who's feeling frustrated - should take to heart: "Hey Mama" offers up a delightfully inspirational, raw and curmudgeonly road-worn message from Rateliff, who has earned the right to dish out a bit of advice after building his career brick-by-brick on gritty, broken-down lyrics. If these two tracks are any indication, Rateliff - who has long explored different styles with the band the Wheel, as a solo act, and now with the Night Sweats - has not stopped trying new things. Like " You Worry Me," the first song from new album Tearing at the Seams, "Hey Mama" is a welcome detour from the catchy soul style (see: "S.O.B.") on which the Night Sweats built their acclaim. Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats, who are gearing up for a March 9 album release, dropped a new single, "Hey Mama," today - just days after announcing a second Red Rocks concert on August 23, with Slim Cessna's Auto Club.
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