![]() He was a pretty over-the-top motherfucker. I had a bunch of Isaac Hayes records at one point as well, which went from really interesting to totally ridiculous. What are some of your other favorite albums from the label? Paste: Those old Stax covers are so great. And when we were doing the album art, I pulled out an old Sam & Dave record I have and took this picture of it and was like, “Can we make the album cover look something like this, cause this looks fuckin’ classic to me.” That mustard yellow logo… Paste: Those snapping fingers carry a lot of prestige, no doubt. And I said to them, “You know, for what I’m trying to do for this record I’m making, it would be really cool if it said Stax on it!” And it was great we got them to come through with that. Rateliff: When I signed to Concord, I knew they had bought out Stax. ![]() But the fact they wound up using the Stax name for your album was a really cool move. Paste: Hey, at least you and Wilco have a similar story to share between you all. It’s really a funny business the way all that shit works. Rateliff: It’s interesting, because I got dumped by Rounder but then signed by Concord, which is the parent company. But it’s very much a now record that truly places a renewed emphasis on the Stax label as a tastemaker as well. Paste: And now you have a new album that sounds like it could have been discovered in a dusty bin in the back of an old record shop. I don’t want it to be as smooth as it can be. I made a record that sounds like Sam & Dave harmonies with a Band vibe to it.” I wanted to be R&B and soul, but I wanted that Hawks style to it. Rateliff: The first song I wrote for this project was “Trying So Hard,” and I was so stoked like I did the thing like I demoed it at home. What inspired you to go in this direction? Paste: The classic soul sound is getting a serious shot in the arm in 2015 with your record and the Leon Bridges album and Curtis Harding. It’s not that big of a world once you travel around and you end up running into people all the time. It’s cool over the years how many names you rack up. But we also did some shows with people that we really loved like Bon Iver, Low Anthem and Tallest Man on Earth. We did the college circuit, which is odd thinking about, given my daughter now goes to college. Nathaniel Rateliff: Joseph and I have been making music for 21 years we figured out the other day. Paste: How long have you been making music now? Paste had the pleasure of speaking with Rateliff on the eve of the band’s short tour of the UK and Ireland in late October before he returns home for a string of dates in the upper Midwest, including a Halloween gig at the Codfish Hollow Barn in Maquoketa, Iowa. ![]() 4 on the Billboard rock album charts and scoring them an extensive tour of both Europe and the U.S. And it only took that one barnburner of a performance of Rateliff’s signature tune on NBC’s long-running late night institution to make him and his crew household names, helping the record jump to No. And it’s anchored by the single “S.O.B.”, this year’s “Rolling In The Deep” which, upon first listen, inspired Jimmy Fallon to immediately get them booked on The Tonight Show. Produced by the renowned Richard Swift (currently a member of Dan Auerbach’s The Arcs), the eponymous debut album from Nathaniel Rateliff and The Night Sweats is a pure, raging slab of blue-eyed rhythm and blues that finds this wild common ground between Booker T and the MGs and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion in the most organic way possible. One of the most pleasant surprises of 2015 was the creative rebirth of Colorado music vet Nathaniel Rateliff as he transformed from earnest Dead Oceans-inspired nu-folker to the most genuine white soul man America has enjoyed since Daryl Hall in his heyday.
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