“Life isn’t always easy, so you kind of just roll with the punches … I’m still struggling in my own ways, but I seemed to get through the worst of it that was there for a while.” “I hadn’t thought of it in terms of a bounce back,” he conceded.

“So I just had to deal with that discouragement, while still trying to be grateful for the position I was in and feeling fortunate in a lot of ways.”Įventually, the juices began flowing again and - inspired by the pandemic - Rateliff wrote 11 songs that comprised “The Future” and reconvened the Night Sweats, which he formed in 2013, to record it.Ĭonsidering the emotionally devastating events of the past few years, did Rateliff consider “The Future” a rebound of sorts? “One, it was kind of nice to be home, and I think I just needed to let things lie and accept that we weren’t going to be out on the road, and I wasn’t going to get to tour that record. “At first, I wasn’t even being creative when I came back,” he said. Louis, Missouri, native felt anything but productive.

If that wasn’t enough, a planned solo tour was cut short by the arrival of COVID-19, although he managed to squeeze in a solo date at Roy Thomson Hall in March before he was forced to return home to Denver.īut when he finally got home, the 43-year-old St.

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