“I had one person come up to me because her husband was an alcoholic and has been sober for twenty years now. It’s not just Rateliff's bandmates who’ve been moved by “S.O.B.” and its tale of hands shaking while a heart is aching. I’m sorry I let it get to that and I wasn’t there to help you.’” When we first started to play the song, Joseph - who I’ve been playing with for 21 years now - said at one point, ‘Man, when I first heard that song, I just wanted to cry because I feel like such a bad friend. I was in another country, and I was alone. “I wrote that song about having delirium tremors in order to make light of it, but it was a pretty traumatic situation,” he says. But Rateliff got deeply introspective when asked how he wrote such a cathartic, intensely personal song about substance abuse without glorifying alcoholism, which is such a serious subject at its roots. It’s a foot-stomping drinking song - or might seem to be at first listen. “S.O.B.,” the revival-worthy song Rateliff sang on The Tonight Show, definitely seems to make everybody happy. As soon as you do something people like, there are people who don’t like you because of that. “Mostly I get nervous about backlash, because I’ve been doing this for a long time. “I think I’m overwhelmed with the amount of work I have to do,” Rateliff says. The elephant in the room, perhaps, for those who were well aware of Rateliff’s talents before he and the Night Sweats slayed “S.O.B.” on The Tonight Show in August, is what such a sudden breakthrough (the band’s eponymous LP just sold over 20,000 copies in its first week) feels like after years of slow progress. I’m excited, but it’s gonna be a lot of work. “All the venues sold out, and then were moved to bigger rooms and sold out again. “We’ll be gone until about Thanksgiving,” Rateliff said just before leaving for the forty-show run. Last week, Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats began a lengthy tour that will take the Denver soul sensation from Salt Lake City to Europe, with a stop at Red Rocks over the weekend.
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