Rateliff’s soulful story telling lyrics just get better and better with the release of his 4^th studio album in June of this year by the Memphis soul machine label: Stax.

His songs take on a more personal note, encouraged by the album’s producer, Brad Cook, but manage to keep what Jim Shahen of ‘The Journal of Roots Music’ calls a ‘gritty rock ‘n’ soul’ sound that is the backbone of Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats’.

Mojo comments that the 11 album tracks are ‘Deep, rewarding songs, rich in authorly detail, which, not for the first time, position Rateliff, still only 45, as a new Springsteen.’

Source: South of Here Review by Mojo, 2024.  Album Review: Nathaniel Rateliff…by Jim Shahen, 2024, Journal of Roots Music. Graphic: Album Cover STAX copyright.