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Nathaniel Rateliff The Night Sweats’ self titled debut album is coming out on Stax, the Memphis birthplace of so much legendary R from Otis Redding to Isaac Hayes. It’s an honor to walk among that company, and it also makes perfect sense: Although a longtime resident of Denver, Rateliff grew up in rural Missouri. And, while that’s not technically the South, it’s close enough to Memphis to matter. Folk revivalists come cheap fashion handbags sale these days, but The Night Sweats’ members tap into a different strain of Americana: There’s a hint of Booker T. Doused with reverb and regret, “Look It Here” simmers in a Cyber Monday coach outlet stew of bittersweet soul; “Mellow Out” is Rateliff’s “(Sittin’ On) The Dock Of The Bay,” a gently strummed ballad that lets slip more than a little tenderness.
For the most part, though, The Night cheap coach outlet online store Sweats is an upbeat, old time dance record unpolished and unapologetic. Staying still during the stomping rawness of “Trying Hard Not To Know” is like trying to keep a lid on a kettle of popcorn. And if the shimmering, near psychedelic sultriness of “Shake” doesn’t turn the world into a groovy love in, there may be no hope for any of us. Rateliff isn’t simply resurrecting the ghost of R past like some garden variety neo soul necromancer: He’s out to shake the sheets, sermonize and get fashion bags downright elemental.
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