But by the last one, 2013’s Falling Faster Than You Can Run, he was ready to quit the rock life for his day gig at the time. Rateliff made three albums as an indie-folk singer with a quietly forceful voice and fearless confessional streak. The two friends moved to Denver in 1998, turning to music in earnest while working at the same trucking company to stay afloat. Pope came from a religious home with outlaw roots an uncle, he claims, was an expert safecracker.
For a time, he was a janitor in the high school where he should have been in class. Nathaniel soon quit school, getting by with menial jobs. Nathaniel was 13 when Bud was killed in a car accident on his way to a service. The singer was raised in an evangelical-Christian household and played drums in church in a band with his parents, Bud and Sandy, and his older sister Heather. Rateliff and Pope took the hard, winding road out of Hermann. If I don’t, you’re not gonna want to be with me anyway.'” I remember having a conversation with my wife: ‘Baby, I gotta see this thing through. “Even before we did Fallon, we knew this band was going to change the course of our lives. “We were so ready for something to happen in our lives,” says Pope, Rateliff’s best friend and sidekick in every group they’ve had since they were teenagers in Hermann, Missouri, a small town about 80 miles west of St. When he launched the Night Sweats in 2013, “I wanted to write like the Band and Sam and Dave had a band together,” Rateliff says. Rateliff has lived in this city for two decades and been a local hero for most of them, with various bands and as a solo singer-songwriter. I’m almost 40, and I’m still figuring shit out.” “When you’re 20, you don’t know what the fuck you’re doing. Rateliff, bassist Joseph Pope III, drummer Patrick Meese, guitarist Luke Mossman, keyboard player Mark Shusterman, trumpeter Scott Frock, and saxophonists Jeff Dazey and Andreas Wild are back on the road with a new album, Tearing at the Seams, which has already produced a Number One hit on adult-alternative radio, “You Worry Me.” “I would have fucked it up if I had been younger,” Rateliff, 39, says over a Scotch and water in a Denver restaurant. as the band toured relentlessly, playing 246 shows in 16 countries just by the end of 2016. In the wake of “S.O.B.,” Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats went gold in the U.S. It may be the most improbable breakout of this viral-pop-star decade: a white classic-soul band led by a burly middle-aged singer. The next day, Fallon got a phone call from Paul McCartney, who saw the broadcast and wanted to know, “Who was that guy? That was fantastic.”Ī month later, Rateliff was in a meeting at his record label when, he says, “one guy who does statistics said, ‘You really fucked my job. Let’s tear it up.’ I remember seeing Jimmy over there, freaking out.” The studio audience responded with a standing ovation. “But by the time we got onstage, I wasn’t thinking about playing to millions of people,” Rateliff says. “That was,” Fallon says, “the last thing that sold me: ‘This has to be on television.'” At one point, the singer, a barrel-chested man with a thick brown beard, does a nimble James Brown-like swivel on the tips of his shoes. He belts the chorus – “Son of a bitch, gimme a drink!” – like an enraged Van Morrison armed with a wall of horns, atop a Ray Charles-style charge. That clip, still on YouTube, was shot on an iPhone from the side of the stage in November 2013 at one of Rateliff’s early gigs with the Night Sweats. Nevertheless, he watched the video: a live performance of an explosive R&B song called “S.O.B.,” short for “Son of a Bitch.” Fallon’s immediate reaction: “This dude is insane.
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“Everybody has an idea of how to make the show better, who I should have on,” Fallon says, laughing. “He should be on the show.” There was a link to a YouTube clip by Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats, an eight-piece band unknown outside Denver. One day in the summer of 2015, Jimmy Fallon, the host of The Tonight Show, received an e-mail from a close friend, Corbin Day.
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