![]() (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "MISTY MOUNTAIN HOP") Nathaniel Rateliff was a kid in small-town Missouri when he found a tape that changed his life. LED ZEPPELIN: (Singing) Walking in the park just the other day, baby. NATHANIEL RATELIFF: Well, it was actually - it was in the barn when we lived out in Bay (ph). Get the embed code Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats - Tearing at the Seams (Deluxe Edition) Album Lyrics1.A Little Honey2.Babe I Know3.Baby. LED ZEPPELIN: (Singing) Hey, boy, do you want to score? Piontic (ph), he - I guess for some of the country kids, it was, like, a place to party in the middle of a cornfield, and he found the Led Zeppelin tape up out there and I found it in the barn. KELLY: Rateliff's parents were devout Christians. He wasn't allowed to listen to secular music, and he did not like having to play in his family's band at church. So that tape opened up a whole new world. It was always the strangest thing to me because growing up in church was like, well, if God made music, why is this secular stuff so much better? RATELIFF: Secretly, we'd listen to it, which I'm surprised my dad didn't know that I was - you know, I'd have my headphones on and playing "When The Levee Breaks" and "Misty Mountain Hop" on my drums. RATELIFF: Then why did I find this tape? I was like, why aren't our worship songs as good as that? KELLY: If God didn't want me to listen to Led Zeppelin, why did he (laughter) why did he allow it to happen? RATELIFF: I don't think the devil is trying to trick us. NATHANIEL RATELIFF AND THE NIGHT SWEATS: (Singing) I've been coolin' out, baby. KELLY: Now, Nathaniel Rateliff makes his own very different style of music. Enjoy the live experience: Buy your tickets & Marigold Package today. ![]() He and his band, Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats, found huge success with their first album. The upcoming tour dates for Nathaniel Rateliff, and Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats. It's surprising and a little unnerving for me to see it now.' Similarly, Rateliff shared that ' Time Stand ,' a song about his divorce, had him in tears when he finished recording. NATHANIEL RATELIFF AND THE NIGHT SWEATS: (Singing) Now it might be that I'm being swayed in a lie. Is it as much fun to play it as it sounds like it must be? KELLY: Nathaniel Rateliff, it is hard to listen to this music and sit still. ![]() You know, I'm so fortunate that my bandmates and I are - it's like a gang of brothers, really. We roll into a place and people are like, are you guys in a band? I was like, can you tell? There's, like, eight of us. RATELIFF: (Laughter) Yeah, I know, right? You know, before we walk onstage every night, we just tell each other we love each other and just, like, remember to have fun. Come in late at night when Im alone You want whats right but you tell me all the time that I only seem to do it wrong Baby Ive got your number Ill call. NATHANIEL RATELIFF AND THE NIGHT SWEATS: (Singing) We'll be dancing and having fun. Tell your mama that you're leaving home and your friends are going to come along.
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