But we’re trying to have a real honest approach at what we’re doing, and reach a lot of people that way, and if we do become multi-plantinum selling artists, that would be a real blessing. I don’t ever expect to be a multi-plantinum selling artist. Do you think that’s true? Have you considered alternative ways of making it big?NR: What we’re really trying to do is make a reasonable living at this so I don’t know about making it big. VD: I’ve talked to other musicians who say the old sign-with-a-record-label, release-a-record ways are disappearing. I like his stuff and it’s nice to feel like we’re at a point to play with people who are pretty well known and then when we meet them, they treat us like their peers. He’s had a pretty good run of things and influenced a lot of great people. Are you looking forward to that show or are you nervous?Nathaniel Rateliff: I’m not really nervous. Vail Daily: You’re playing with Frank Black at the Walnut Room in Denver later this week. A lot of people who are working with great labels can’t find great agents and we’re lucky enough to have everyone at High Road excited to work with us and help further what we’re trying to do as musicians. Tell me what that feels like?NR: I’m pretty excited about that.
VD: You just signed with High Road Touring, the same agency that books bands like Wilco, Old 97s, Feist and others. He took the time to talk about some of the record labels that have recently been courting the band and why money isn’t everything. It’s nice to have a little bit more attention to what we’re doing.”Rateliff returns to the Sandbar in West Vail tonight to open for the band Akron/Family. “Last year we were 16th or 17th or something, and in years before I don’t think we really even made the list. “I was kind of glad we weren’t first actually because it seems like most bands that get first in that have broken up in the past,” Rateliff said during a phone interview this week. Rateliff, the main man behind indie band The Wheel, was satisfied with second best last week when the Denver Post ranked The Wheel as the No. At least not if you’re Nathaniel Rateliff, who brings his band to Vail, Colorado Friday. VAIL, Colorado -First place isn’t always best. Rateliff has recently been featured in Spin, Relix and Billboard. 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.Special to the Vail DailyNathaniel Rateliff & The Wheel opens for Akron/Family at the Sandbar in West Vail tonight. The result is The Future, the third Night Sweats album but the first to capture this octet’s true depth and breadth. 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? 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. 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. NATHANIEL RATELIFF 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. Tickets previously purchased through eventbrite will be replaced with official tickets on DECEMto your registered eventbrite email address. IMPORTANT TICKET NOTICE - PLEASE READ To purchase official tickets for Vail Snow Days please visit the official event website Tickets received from Eventbrite ticket site will NOT be valid for entry into the event venue.
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