At Summer NAMM 2021, Gibson unveiled a signature guitar for Rateliff. Listen to Survivor by Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats, 156,088 Shazams, featuring on Alternative Replay, and Southern Craft Apple Music playlists. Watch the lyric video for the song below. The record is available for pre-order at . Rateliff’s soulful belting in Survivor is backed by dirty bluesy rock guitar strums, melodic hooks and even horn fanfare, all gradually building to emotional catharsis. 1 on the Americana albums chart for eight weeks.įull album details for The Future are below. Last year, Rateliff and the band performed Survivor and Baby I Got Your. 1 on the Billboard Americana/Folk chart and stayed at No. Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats will take their lauded live show back. Rateliff’s 2020 solo album, And It’s Still Alright, debuted at No. Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats have been making waves in the Americana scene since their self-titled album, now certified gold in the United States, dropped in 2015. There is this constant back-and-forth battle in me personally, and I am sure that comes out in my writing.” Rateliff has garnered attention with Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats, the soulful R&B combo he formed in 2013.
“I just continue to try to write from a place of hope.”īut hope is a tricky thing in such uncertain times, and Rateliff admits, "My own neurosis, and maybe being a Libra, gets in the way, and I can’t make up my mind. Nathaniel David Rateliff (born October 7, 1978) is an American singer and songwriter based in Denver, whose influences are described as folk, Americana and vintage rhythm & blues.
“Our future looked pretty bleak,” notes Rateliff on writing the album during a pandemic. As MusicRownotes, the soul-influenced Americana act retreated to Rateliff’s own Broken Creek Studio in their home state of Colorado to write the songs on The Future, with the goal of commenting on current times while also looking ahead.