![]() ![]() I never thought we’d be here with all of you, so this is a truly amazing thing for us.” “We are only here because of you guys tonight, so thank you so much for coming. Seriously, with the dancing skills that man possesses, I don’t know how he stood still on a stage for all those years before The Night Sweats. The tambourine came out at one point, and while he beat it against the slip-sliding, kicking-and-screaming legs below him, his perfectly manicured beard stayed steady in front of the microphone, as if it weren’t connected to the rest of his body. ![]() When his feet started to stomp along with the dual percussion of “Look It Here”, I couldn’t control my own extremities from following along. When he hit those throaty, guttural notes during “I’ve Been Failing”, it sent shivers down my spine. Rateliff played the part of a manic preacher who would just as soon send you straight to hell as he would lift you up to the gates of heaven. There was something almost religious about what was happening on that stage. Strands of discrete white lighting bounced off saxophones, and trumpets, and even a sousaphone, as New Orleans’ best paid tribute to Colorado’s best. ![]() Then he channeled all that love into his newfound James Brown persona. Dressed all in black (from his hat, all the way down to his boots), with arms outstretched to gather all the love coming his way, Rateliff looked up at the venue like he was seeing it for the first time. With the brass wind at his back, Nathaniel Rateliff returned home on his knees. A colossal circus of horns marched out in front of Stage Rock, with the Night Sweats following close behind. In addition, the song “Slow Pace of Time” features Preservation Hall Jazz Band leader and clarinetist Charlie Gabriel.From one extreme to the other, the man who had found comfort in solitary performances for years, was not only surrounded by the six-piece Sweats, but also by the seven-piece New Orleans’ Preservation Hall Jazz Band (who had decided to stick around after their opening set for Yonder Mountain the night before). The What If I EP features a selection of unreleased songs recorded during The Future sessions as well as the new track “Buy My Round.” All songs on the upcoming project were produced by Bradley Cook (Bon Iver, Kevin Morby, The War on Drugs) and R.M.B.-the production trio of Rateliff, Meese and James Barone (Beach House). Rateliff and the band continue to take their lauded live show on the road this year with an extensive run of worldwide dates this summer - including a headline appearance at the UK’s Black Deer Festival. As part of the lauded two-day concert event, Rateliff contributed renditions of “A Song for You,” “City of New Orleans” and “I Can Get Off on You,” which was performed as a duet with Margo Price. This past weekend, Rateliff performed at Willie Nelson’s star-studded 90th Birthday Celebration at Los Angeles’ Hollywood Bowl. This is our first big collaboration on a song together and it turned out great.” Listen to "Buy My Round" HERE. Rateliff furthers, “Mark had been playing this one while we were writing for The Future, but we never got a chance to dig into it. It was great to get to sing together on this one.” “It’s something that had been bouncing around in my head for a while, so I was excited when Nathaniel wanted to help me finish it for this recording. “’Buy My Round’ is a song about trying to keep a friendship together with someone that keeps pulling away,” says Night Sweats band member Mark Shusterman. The EP is their first body of work since the acclaimed 2021 album The Future. The song appears on the band’s forthcoming EP, What If I, out on June 2 via Stax. "Buy My Round,” the newly written and recorded track from Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats, premieres today.
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