

“This record is the most I’ve ever intentionally worked on a project, musically speaking, in terms of the scope of it and how much thought went into it,” he says. This ambitious, audacious work heralds an artistic metamorphosis for the 30-year-old veteran, whose risk-taking in painting outside the lines has been rewarded tenfold. Sell your suspenders.” The tweet was tongue-in-cheek, but Alejandro Rose-Garcia, the Austin native who’s been plying his trade as Shakey Graves since 2007, was making a dead-serious point about his latest album, Can’t Wake Up. There are familiar elements of soul and garage rock, but also jazz, folk, and even country.īack in December 2017, Shakey Graves proclaimed on his Twitter page, “Next album. These songs are grounded in old-school soul and R&B, but are far too urgent for the retro or revivalist tag. The result is the aptly titled Tearing at the Seams, a vivacious and inventive full-band record, with significant contributions from all eight members of The Night Sweats. In May 2017, they brought that same boundless energy to their follow-up.

Those demos eventually developed into the band’s 2015 self-titled debut, which became a massive hit and pushed them out on the road for two long years. Rateliff released an album on Rounder Records with a backing band called The Wheel, but despite the critical success of that and subsequent albums, he was still trying to find the right sound, the right outlet for what he needed to say. In 1998 Night Sweat bassist, Joseph Pope III and Rateliff moved to Denver where they worked nightshifts at a bottle factory and a trucking company while testing out their songs at open-mic nights. He thought he was actually sequestering himself to finish writing the last few songs for Nathaniel Rateliff and The Night Sweats’ follow-up album to their self-titled 2015 debut. Music became an obsession for him and his friends. When Nathaniel Rateliff went to a writing retreat outside of Tucson, Arizona, for 11 days in the spring of 2017, he didn’t know he was starting his third full-length solo album. Growing up in Hermann, Missouri, Nathaniel Rateliff started his music career playing in his family’s band at church.

Vail Mountain will open for winter operations on Friday, November 16, 2018. Vail Snow Days is presented by Town of Vail, Vail Mountain, Bud Light, Pepsi, and brought to you in part by Verizon and Helly Hansen.

Take a snow day and stay with the Vail Snow Days Lodging package, offering up to 20 percent off lodging rates with an optional purchase of special rate Private Reserve VIP tickets for Friday and Saturday concerts. Snow Days LIVE! will showcase live music all weekend long between Vail and Lionshead Villages, as well as on-mountain. The launch of Savor Vail will debut with early season offerings from local restaurants, bars, retail locations, galleries and spas. The schedule of activities for Vail Snow Days 2018 will feature new events including, the Pray for Snow Bonfire and pub crawls on Thursday and Bloodies and Bluegrass on Sunday.
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The Vail Snow Days concerts on Friday and Saturday nights are free of charge and will be held at Ford Park. “The schedule of events for Vail Snow Days is more robust this year and brings the whole community together with live music, family-friendly events and new traditions that will kick off the season in style.” “Vail Snow Days is back and bigger than ever this winter with a four day festival and two nights of free concerts at Ford Park,” said Doug Lovell, Vice President and Chief Operating Officer at Vail Mountain. Vail Snow Days is the signature kick-off festival to the winter season Thursday, Dec. 14, 2018 and Shakey Graves on Saturday, Dec. Bud Light presents Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats on Friday, Dec. So if you want to hear him performing his new music alongside the hits that have established his reputation as one of the hardest rocking singers in show business - hits like "Hey Mama," "You Worry Me," and the rollicking "SOB" - then you can't afford to wait!Ĭheck out the current Nathaniel Rateliff Tour schedule below to learn more about upcoming shows and available seating options, and click on individual links for additional info.Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats and Shakey Graves will headline Vail Snow Days, in two nights of free concerts. Singer, songwriter, and consummate showman Nathaniel Rateliff just released a new album with The Night Sweats, and because he's got major supporting concerts at venues all across North America, you've got plenty of chances to catch him performing The Future live and in person! Tickets for all tour dates are on sale now, but considering his reputation for being one of the best live acts on the planet, there's no telling how long the best sets will last.
