![]() ![]() Some grass-roots revival audience hand-clapping, some Joe Cocker wildness, some Huey Lewis and The News positive hooyah vibes, and some live Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band a la 2012-2014 with his horns section. If it were a smoothie, you’d be adding to your blender the following ingredients. ![]() You can’t describe it, you just have to feel and experience it. The magical sound these gentlemen are able to produce all together is nothing short of musical alchemy. The rest of the magnificent seven are Joseph Pope III (bass), Patrick Meese (drums), Mark Shusterman (keyboards), and Luke Mossman (guitar). The section consisted of Daniel Hardaway (trumpet, flugelhorn), Andy Wild (baritone saxophone), and Jeff Dazey (tenor saxophone). The Nightsweats include an awesome horn section. They would soon emerge from their cocoon. The Night Sweats were just a dream at that point. When I first saw Rateliff, he was with a previous project called The Wheel. He has gotten a lot of mileage out of his musical wheels in the last seven-plus years. While both artists have made significant strides since then, Rateliff was just a young pup on the music scene at the time. That was in Fort Collins, Colorado at the Aggie Theater back in January of 2014. I personally hadn’t seen Rateliff live since he opened for his good buddy, and fellow Colorado neighbor, Gregory Alan Isakov. If you’re going to have an outdoor show when the air quality hasn’t been great, the best place to have it would be in the lush green mountains where the air is normally superior. The air had significantly improved and didn’t seem to affect anyone’s enjoyment of the show. ![]() Most of us live in Denver, so we’ve had to deal with the smoke too.” Rateliff told the Deer Valley audience. “We want to thank y’all for coming on out here tonight. Lately, the extra safety blanket an outdoor show normally provides from the COVID-19 virus has been countered with risky, poor air quality from summer fires. In Utah lately, and other parts of western states, live musicians have not only had to navigate through a resurgent COVID-19 variant, but also nasty smokey skies. We’ve seen Cancel or Postpone many shows it was great to see this show take place. Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats were able to successfully bring the energy to Deer Valley on August 20, despite multiple recent obstacles. ![]()
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