“It's kind of taking me a long time to admit to myself, “ he says, “but writing is a part of my process in dealing with things and moving forward. With the new album out into the world after what he had been through in the last few years-especially coping with Swift's death and the end of his marriage-Rateliff does feel a sense of burden lifted.
His family left it open for people to go back and use, which I think is fantastic.” “We tried to approach it thinking, ‘Well, what would he do on this?’ We actually started a record at his studio in Cottage Grove, Oregon last March. “This was going to be a record I had planned to do with Richard, which Pat probably would have been a part of as well,” says Rateliff. Working with Rateliff on the album included co-producers James Barone and Night Sweats drummer Patrick Meese, all of whom had worked with Swift and learned a lot from him. All of that in one got me here and helped me write this record, too.” I feel like I've grown as a musician and a performer, and as a writer and singer.
“I just kind of feel like I've taken everything I've learned from the Night Sweats and the shows we play and our time on the road. “There's a lot of similarities in there for sure,” he says. Fans of Rateliff’s earlier work might notice the sound of the new record is a throwback to his pre-Night Sweats albums In Memory of Loss (2010) and Falling Faster Than You Can Run (2013). The moments of melancholy and introspection that surround the record is buoyed by hope and resilience in overcoming personal difficulties. I wanted to be able to talk about that in a song so that it creates a conversation for the listener, and for other people to be able to be vulnerable that thing and talk about it-and then also try to find hope in there and not to feel so devastated and so lost.” And so I let all of it come out, all the things that I wanted to be able to say, to let him know that even though he was gone that I recognized and shared that same unexplainable brokenness. I immediately felt like I was trying to say something to Richard. “I think I had the phrase ‘rush on’ in my head. “I don't really know where it came from,” the singer says. You’d have to think his mama would be proud.The other song inspired by Swift is the album’s emotional and stark ballad “Rush On,” which is further elevated by Ratefliff's very powerfully moving vocal performance. YetĮven when he overshoots, Rateliff’s restless throwback sound feels like it’s
The dusky “Babe I Know,” he sounds more fatigued than uplifted.
Suppleness of classic soul singers when he taps into his inner Sam Cooke on “While I needed you, it was never a choice of mine,” he offers in the jubilant-sounding “Be There.” Rateliff really hits emotional pay dirt in “Hey Mama,” in which a mother chastises her son for feeling sorry for himself: “You ain’t run far enough to say my legs have failed.” While not strictly autobiographical, the song hints at Rateliff’s own tragic backstory (his father was killed in a car accident when Nathaniel was in his early teens), sounding convincingly pained as the Night Sweats horns surge behind him.Ĭan be guilty of overwriting, as in the jumble of raging-wildfire images thatĭrag down “Still Out There Running.” His husky voice can lack the A big Leonard Cohen fan, he sprinkles Cohenesque lines throughout the album. Rateliff remains a brooding party animal. Meanwhile, the cautiously optimistic “You Worry Me” shows the band is interested in more than just simulations of R&B past, burnishing modern guitar rumble with light electronics. Rooted in a grinding sax and a caffeinated groove, “Intro” recalls interracial Sixties soul band the Electric Flag. Reflecting the Night Sweats’ relentless touring since their breakthrough, tracks like the largely instrumental shuffle “Shoe Boot” are punchier than anything on their debut, jacked up by swelling organs and the band’s plump horn section. Unsurprisingly, Rateliff doubles down on roadhouse retro for Tearing at the Seams, his second album with the Night Sweats, which arrives after a quickie EP and a live album. 'You Ripped My Heart Out': Jury Hears Jail Phone Call Between 'Doomsday Mom' and Surviving Son
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