![]() ![]() It makes you wonder what you would do in that situation when someone storms into a school or an office building or a show and opens fire. What if we all care about each other enough we won’t need that anymore? And he talks about thinking of others and being their cover. He brings up this thing about the shooting in Paris and he’s talking about how we don’t need guns to protect ourselves from these other people. Nathaniel Rateliff: “It’s a song we’re trying to do a cover of live. And the lyrics are also beautiful.” On Kevin Morby’s protest song “Beautiful Strangers” Mark Shusterman: “I’ve always been moved by that song, just musically. It just made me think the hardships of his family, growing up poor, and the pressure you have in the South and the Midwest as well.” One of the guys in The Band sounds exactly like my father. Nathaniel Rateliff: “I always related to it, growing up in Missouri. We all would just put it on in the van, listen to it over and over again and take notes on it on how to put together a show because that man knew how to put together a show.” On “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down” by The Band Mark Shusterman: “Listening to this is like doing homework. How can we continue to push ourselves to be like this?” Nathaniel Rateliff: “This is what a live band is suppossed to sound like. It’s strange that we are still struggling with the same issues that we did during the Civil Rights Movement.” On How Ray Charles’ live version of “A Fool For You” Inspired the band There’s a lot of people that don’t have a voice and I feel like there’s a lot of people that are alienated, and I don’t want to be a part of that. ![]() Nathaniel Rateliff: “It’s kind of been our conversation a lot recently about what we’re trying to do as a live band, not trying to use our platform in a political way, but really to try to bring people together. Making music that resists genre classification, his projects Where Will We Go, Green Twins, and Will This Make Me Good have respectively gained approval from the likes of Erykah Badu, Fleet Foxes, Andre 3000, and D'Angelo.Here are some highlights during their interview with Margot: On Nina Simone’s “I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free” Nick Hakim is a New York-based artist, producer and songwriter from Washington, D.C. An instant classic of 11 songs, the album presents something more sustainable, interesting, and indeed open-a songwriter and band growing into bigger questions and sounds, into a future that allows them to remain recognizable but be so much more compelling than some denim-clad caricature. The result is The Future, the third Night Sweats album but the first to capture this octet’s true depth and breadth. When Rateliff returned from his pandemic-truncated solo tour in March 2020, he struggled with the same question that vexed so many of us then-what now? Fortunately, he returned to his Colorado homestead and penned a set of songs that synthesized his introspection with his anthemic inclinations. To wit, is there any other modern act capable of revving up stadium crowds for The Rolling Stones while also appearing on Saturday Night Live and CMT Crossroads and at NPR’s Tiny Desk in short order? They’ve had hits, sure, but their combustible mix of soul and rock quickly cemented them as the rare generational band who balanced ecstatic live shows with engrossing and rich records. Since 2015, Rateliff has led his denim-clad, horn-flanked Night Sweats, supplying the zeal of a whiskey-chugging Pentecostal preacher to songs about this world’s shared woes. It took Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats less than five years to become one of the most recognizable new forces in contemporary rock ’n’ roll. Please review our updated health and safety protocols here.
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