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Nathaniel Rateliff Biography
Nathaniel Rateliff David is an American singer and songwriter based in Denver, whose influences are described as folk, Americana and vintage rhythm & blues.
Rateliff was born in St. Louis. He grew up in rural Missouri, learning to play the drums at age seven and joining his family’s Gospel Band. When Rateliff was 13, his father was killed in a car crash. As a result, he taught himself guitar and began writing his own songs. At eighteen, Rateliff moved to Denver for missionary work.
After his internal struggles with life in the Church, he left the group and moved home back to Hermann for work in a plastics factory. A few months later he returned to Denver and started work first as a carpenter, then at a trucking depot where he remained for 10 years before becoming a gardener.
Nathaniel Rateliff Career
Rateliff has garnered attention with Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats, the soulful R&B combo he formed in 2013. In 2002, Rateliff formed Born in the Flood, quickly garnering a large following in Denver and headlining local festivals like the Westword Music Showcase. In Feb 2007, Born in the Flood released their first full-length album “If This Thing Should Spill”.
Despite increasing success with Born in the Flood, Rateliff turned down an offer from Roadrunner Records, and shifted his focus to a more stripped-down, solo effort, playing somber, singer-songwriter content under his name and “Nathaniel Rateliff and the Wheel”.
Nathaniel Rateliff Age
Rateliff was born on 7th October 1978 in St. Louis, Missouri in the United States. He is 40 years old as of 2019.
Nathaniel Rateliff Family
After doing our research, details about his parents are not available and it is also not known if he has any siblings.
Nathaniel Rateliff Wife
Rateliff likes to keep his personal life private hence information about his dating life is not available. It is therefore not known whether he is married or has any children. However, this information will be updated as soon as it is available.
Nathaniel Rateliff Body Measurements
- Height: Not Available
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- Body Shape: Average
- Hair Colour: Dark brown
- Birth Sign: Libra
Nathaniel Rateliff Songs
- S.O.B
- Wasting Time
- You Worry Me
- A Little Honey
- Hey Mama
- Look It Here
- Shoe Boot
- Howling
- At Nothing
- Still Trying
- Babe, I Know
- Say It Louder
- Be There
- Mellow Out
Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats
In 2017, when one of Nathaniel Rateliff’s oldest friends, a carpenter who grew up alongside him and Night Sweats bassist Joseph Pope in Missouri was injured in a construction accident, Rateliff and Pope knew they needed to support him.
Their band had just celebrated two years of unprecedented success after the release of their 2015 self-titled debut, and Rateliff and Pope realized they finally might be able to help their old friend directly.
The answer, Rateliff would soon discover, would be the Marigold Project, the social justice-minded foundation that he founded, in late 2017, out of the simplest of charitable impulses: helping out a close friend. “We wanted to figure out how we could help him in his personal life,” Rateliff says of his friend in need, “but that led me to think about how we can help people everywhere.”
Since then, the Marigold Project has provided Rateliff with a launchpad to get involved in a wide range of causes. The foundation has distributed over $100,000 to a slew of community-based organizations, such as Chicago’s My Block, My Hood, My City.
For the most part, Rateliff has focused on his hometown of Denver, providing assistance to the city’s homeless veteran population and hosting a day-long gun violence prevention rally called Not One More that existed, in part, to muster support for a Colorado gun safety law that passed a few months later.
His piano player, Mark Shusterman, testified in front of the state legislature on behalf of the bill, known as the Extreme Risk Protection Order. “To see the bill get passed made me feel like we were actually doing something,” says Rateliff.
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Are You Tough Enough for Marigold Rockmount Shirts? The Stones Are.
We know where the Rolling Stones played August 10 Mile High Stadium is still shaking and what the Rolling Stones drank when they stopped in at Williams & Graham, and that they ate pasta at Lo Stella.
And now we know what they might be wearing as they leave town. Nathaniel Rateliff and Chris Tetzeli gave members of the band custom-made Marigold Project Rockmount shirts before Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats opened the show for the Stones.
Inspired, keyboardist Matt Clifford, a longtime Mike Jagger collaborator. I visited the Rockmount Ranch Wear store at 1626 Wazee Street and bought a jacket and more shirts.
According to Rockmount’s Steve Weil. Rateliff established the Marigold Project in 2017. To support community and nonprofit organizations working on issues of economic and social justice.
“My dad and I planted marigolds as ground cover.” Rateliff wrote in a letter to his fans at the time, explaining the project’s name. “Marigolds do their fair share in feeding nectar to beneficial insects. They keep pests away, they taste good and they bloom like crazy.
I think it’s a great metaphor for the work that I want to support.” In the Marigold Project’s first year, it gave grants totalling $100,000. Purchases of merch on the Marigold site today benefit various groups. Including Boulder-based Western Resource Advocates.
Founded by “Papa Jack” Weil in LoDo eighty years ago, Rockmount Ranch Wear made its name with the first snap-button shirts, which have been worn by everyone from Elvis to Bob Dylan, Robert Plant, Eric Clapton, Robert Redford, Ronald Reagan and, yes, ladies and gentlemen: The Rolling Stones.
