Nathaniel Rateliff plays his song "Something Beautiful" live in concert before a sold-out crowd at the Orpheum Theatre in San Francisco, California on November 15. 2023. Something Beautiful appeared on Rateliff's Closer EP (2015). Nathaniel Rateliff is a Colorado-based singer-songwriter who also performs with the rock/soul band Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats. Joining him onstage were Joseph Pope III (bass / harmonica), Luke Mossman (guitar), Patrick Meese (drums), Mark Shusterman (keyboards / vocals)--all members of The Night Sweats--and Joy Adams (cello), Rachel Sliker (violin), Adrienne Short (violin), Chris Jusell (violin), and James Barone (drums).This was one of the final nights of his And It’s Still Alright Tour, which was abruptly cut short after it launched in March 2020 and then relaunched this fall.

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Official show announcement:

And It's Still Alright Tour 2023
An Intimate Evening With Nathaniel Rateliff

After a three year hiatus Nathaniel Rateliff is relaunching his ‘And It’s Still Alright’ solo tour. The acoustic and intimate evening will feature an opening set from Kevin Morby. On March 2nd, 2020 in Minneapolis, MN, Nathaniel Rateliff kicked off his highly anticipated tour supporting And It’s Still Alright, the singer-songwriter’s acclaimed new solo album which had just been released. Nine days later everything changed—the pandemic hit, and the sold-out nine-month run was cancelled. The ‘And It’s Still Alright Tour’ shows will feature various aspects of Rateliff’s stellar musicianship, vacillating between warm, stripped-back moments with just voice and acoustic guitar to a full 10-piece folk band accompaniment including a string quartet—and all manner of configurations in between.

In 2018 Rateliff recorded the acclaimed album ‘And It’s Still Alright. On the album, he’s a wounded prophet, a weary seeker with a poetic genius and flickering faith who has seen and felt far too much pain and loss in his life. “I think it was Ursula Le Guin in The Earthsea Trilogy who says, ‘Never trust someone without a limp.’ Character isn’t defined by our strengths but by what we overcome,” says Rateliff. He was determined to make some sense of his early travails on And It’s Still Alright, hoping against hope that it’s all part of a bigger plan. You can feel him faltering but never losing his hope across these 10 songs, always believing that there is a way out of the murky dark, a yearning for transcendence and rebirth that gives this record a spiritual incandescence.

Growing up in Herman, Missouri, Nathaniel Rateliff started his music career playing in his family’s band at church, and music became an obsession for him and his friends. In 7th grade, Rateliff’s father was killed in a car crash, which forced him to drop out of school to help provide for his family. One of Rateliff’s full-time jobs was working as a janitor at what would have been his high school. At 19, Rateliff moved to Denver where he worked night shifts at a bottle factory and a trucking company while testing out songs at open-mic nights. After relocating to Denver and playing rock music in various incarnations, Rateliff began gravitating towards a folksier sound. In 2010, he released In Memory of Loss, a solo album on Rounder Records. In 2013, Rateliff released Falling Faster Than You Can Run on modyvi records followed by the Closer EP.

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And It's Still Alright Tour live dates (2023):

November 1 — Boston, MA @ Orpheum Theatre
November 2 — Brooklyn, NY @ Kings Theatre
November 3 — Washington DC @ The Anthem
November 5 — Louisville, KY @ The Louisville Palace
November 6 — Nashville, TN @ Ryman Auditorium
November 8 — Fort Worth, TX @ Will Rogers Auditorium
November 9 — Austin, TX @ Bass Concert Hall
November 12 — San Diego, CA @ Balboa Theatre
November 14 — Los Angeles, CA @ Orpheum Theatre
November 15 — San Francisco, CA @ Orpheum Theatre
November 17 — Portland, Oregon @ Keller Auditorium
November 20 — Seattle, WA @ Paramount Theatre

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Something Beautiful lyrics:

I was out
Skippin' stones
In the end it's what you know
Found my feet
They were firm
What you leave is what you burn
Won't find me
In the second verse
Never found me in the first

Away
Does it bound and break
And you look so vain

Broke my heart
Broke my will
It was all so much to fill
Every turn
Every road
It would all lead back to you
Feel my words
Running out
How we end we're livin' down

Away
And I have a say
And it's not too late

Show me something beautiful
Show me something beautiful
Show me something beautiful

I was out
In the dust
Kickin' weeds out from the trucks
I was old
You were young
Who believe it ever come

Away
My hands can take
The trucks and breaks
But there's nothing left of me

Show me something beautiful
Show me something beautiful
Show me something beautiful

Written by Nathaniel David Rateliff

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