5/30/2023 0 Comments Wife nathaniel rateliff"In the greater sense, I hope they hear that willingness to be vulnerable, to question yourself and where you’re at and be able to share that with the people around you," he says. He invites us to share in his joys and sorrows, he gives us the space to process our own pain and loss. When it looks like it’s yours, it’s shattering and you feel so alone in that pain."Īnd that is precisely what Rateliff does on 'And It's Still Alright'. Those things we all have and all experience, it is singularly your experience, but it’s a part of our human experience and part of our growth. ![]() I think we need to at least have a conversation and allow ourselves to be vulnerable enough to admit we have those things inside of us so that the situation with Richard doesn’t happen. ![]() Most of us do as a part of our human experience, this unexplainable brokenness, but it’s not something we share with each other. Rateliff states, "I'm talking directly to Richard and trying to let him know that we shared the same burden. The album closes with 'Rush On' in tribute to Swift. We just kind of plowed through our time there, and then at the end, it was like, ‘It’s kind of heavy to be there and be there without Richard.’ I guess that’s the point of the whole record, though - acknowledging the heaviness of all of that and moving forward and still finding joy. In some ways, it was really cathartic in some ways, there wasn’t really any time to think or feel about those things, either. We only had eight days at Richard’s studio. Speaking about creating this record Rateliff said, "I thought the best way to do that was to go back to his place and have that energy be a part of the record. Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats performs onstage during day 2 of the 2019 Pilgrimage Music & Cultural Festival on September 22, 2019, in Franklin, Tennessee (Getty Images) "They say you learn a lot out there / How to scorch and burn / Only have to bury your friends / Then you'll find it gets worse," Rateliff sings pensively in the title track, his vocals perfectly floating over a beautifully melancholic guitar, and gentle harmonies filling the spaces created by the simplicity of this arrangement. “So brace for things you don't know,” he sings, as we meander through towards the next track - a gut-wrenching piece that tells us Rateliff has just lost a dear friend, someone he considered his brother. Right from the opening track ‘What A Drag’, which serves as a quiet and painful confirmation that an 11-year old relationship was reaching its end, it is clear that this album is Rateliff coming to terms with what he’s had to deal with. Suddenly then, ‘And It’s Still Alright’ went from a record that dealt with the breakdown of a relationship to one that encompassed grief and loss in more than one way. ![]() While it took major hard work putting together the tracks of this album amidst the daily grind of touring and following the end of a marriage, Rateliff suffered another major blow when his producer and long-time friend Richard Swift passed away due to complications from alcohol addiction, something Rateliff himself has struggled with in the past. Whether you call it folk music or vintage rhythm and blues, 'Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats’ latest album ‘And It’s Still Alright’ is soulful and organic and reflects the ups and downs Rateliff went through while creating it.
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