My original project was called ‘The Wheel’; there’s a record out there called ‘Desire & The Dissolving Man,’ ‘The Memory Of Loss’ as well. There’s also ‘Falling Faster Than You Can Run,’ also ‘Closer’; all of that’s on our website. Nathaniel Rateliff Read Quote
I toured a lot in the U.K. and Europe solo for a lack of funds, really. I left people I’d been playing with for years at home, just because I couldn’t afford it. Nathaniel Rateliff Read Quote
The last album, ‘Falling Faster Than You Can Run.’ I was really proud of, but then I didn’t actually know whether it was going to come out on any label at all. So I didn’t know if anyone was going to hear it. Then of course we ended up doing another EP after that called ‘Closer.’ Nathaniel Rateliff Read Quote
My mom played 12-string and sang, and my dad could play pretty much any wind instrument and had a great ear for harmony. Soon enough, my sister and I got into music because we were always around it, and people were always listening to it. Nathaniel Rateliff Read Quote
Roadrunner wanted to make Born in the Flood the next Nickelback, but I didn’t want to be that. I didn’t want to be a huge rock star playing songs I didn’t like. I didn’t want to be stuck playing ‘Anthem,’ the song everybody liked but I didn’t want to put on the record, for the next five years. Nathaniel Rateliff Read Quote
I’ve always loved soul, R&B, doo-wop and blues, and I’ve wanted to make a record like that for years. Nathaniel Rateliff Read Quote
Sometimes, I don’t like making emotions your career; something about it is kind of gross. But, at the same time, I want to move people the same way the songs make me feel. Nathaniel Rateliff Read Quote
I’d always wanted to do an R&B and soul record; a friend with a studio asked to come by and record a couple of songs, maybe just make a 45. Then the songs started to pour out, and pretty soon we had eight or 10 songs down. Nathaniel Rateliff Read Quote
Success will be when I can have a real swimming pool instead of the fifty-dollar one I buy at Kmart every year. But I don’t want to get robbed of any authenticity to try and make money. Nathaniel Rateliff Read Quote
I’ve always been trying to write songs that hit you in the stomach but ones that make people feel like things will be just fine. Nathaniel Rateliff Read Quote
