Nathaniel Rateliff and longtime friend Gregory Alan Isakov have unveiled new single ‘Flowers’. The pair will perform the duet on Jimmy Kimmel Live! tonight in the US, marking Isakov’s late-night television debut. The song lands in advance of Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats’ landmark headline show at Madison Square Garden on March 27, part of their milestone first-ever arena tour, with Isakov to support. Listen to ‘Flowers’ HERE.
Rateliff and Isakov have known each other since the early days of their careers, rising through the local Denver-Boulder area music scene together. The pair initially crafted ‘Flowers’ as a demo around Rateliff’s 2020 solo album And It’s Still Alright; however, the song remained unfinished for five years before the two revisited it recently.
Rateliff shares, ‘In the moment, because so much time had passed, it was hard to remember who had written what – our words becoming each other’s. Now, listening back, I remember lines Gregory offered and others I did, but it truly is a work of us together, as one.’
Isakov reflects, ‘My longtime friend Nathaniel Rateliff brought some pieces of a song by the farm a little while back and we finished it and tracked it late that night. We ran around the studio tracking instruments and ideas thinking we might re–track it all later, but just loved how the first take came out. Hope you love it as much as we do.’
Around the band’s recent Los Angeles show at Kia Forum in February, Rateliff & The Night Sweats held an initiative to help raise wildfire recovery funds for the Los Angeles area alongside supporting acts Waxahatchee and Iron And Wine, with proceeds from the fundraising efforts going to the Musicares Fire Relief Fund.
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