Nathaniel Rateliff, upright bass player Julie Davis, pianist James Han, guitarist Joseph Pope III and drummer Ben DeSoto are the kind of band that comes along so infrequently that we tend to believe that they don't exist.
We can all only hope for something similar in our lives, but this is only a small, small portion of this group's excellence and it still has nothing to do with its music. They poured each other glasses of wine, into red plastic cups, rarely left each others' sides and showed what it means to be doing something together - doing something because it's greater than all of the smaller parts put together. It was a group of people - two life-long friends from a town of 60 people in small-town Missouri and the other three dedicated friends picked up along the way out to and in Denver, where they now all live - who demonstrated the vast and yet simple explanations of loving and care for others. What was witnessed on some stormy nights, mostly cloudy nights or nights that have no known peers for their exactness, was a band in Nathaniel Rateliff's five-piece travel set that easily spoke to souls every single time it was its time to perform. It's a bold thing to say that, as much as the births of our children and other such pivotal moments in any human existence, what was witnessed every evening in some wooden barns in far-off corridors of Midwestern lands was so lasting and earnest - but it's the truth. Scroll down to view the lyrics to “Redemption”.Over the course of five days this past late-April, as the pollen counts were high and the seeds were just getting tucked into their black earth beds for a roast, there were some very specific and very emotional, nightly occurrences that I and a small collection of others - who saw the same things consecutively for those five nights - will likely draw upon for the rest of our lives. The song is also featured in the film’s trailer. Listen to “Redemption” by Nathaniel Rateliff via the player below or through your preferred streaming platform. I saw that in the characters and did my best to add to the scene in the film.” But it wasn’t until I had a conversation with Justin that helped me to put the song together. “The melody and the opening line came to me immediately.
“When I was first asked to write a song for Palmer I was told what the film was about and where the song was going to be used,” Rateliff said in a press release. In the film, Timberlake plays a hometown hero turned convicted felon who returns home after 12 years in prison to gather the pieces of his shattered existence, all from under the prying eyes of the community. While Rateliff is solely credited with writing the song, he actually received some guidance from the star of Palmer, Justin Timberlake, when discussing the song’s thematic purpose. If it had not come some 10 months later and attached to a feature film, the track could even have been mistaken as one cut from And It’s Still Alright. The sparing nature of “Redemption” is familiar to students of Rateliff’s blooming solo catalog with its sparing instrumentation and poignant lyricism. DJ Premier, Elvis Costello, Nathaniel Rateliff, More Related: Black Thought Details New Supergroup Dopamine Ft. “Redemption” comes as the gap between Rateliff and his backing band The Night Sweats, with whom he found commercial success in 2015 with the hit single “S.O.B.”, grows further as the singer-songwriter continues to mine a solo career.
This new composition comes following Rateliff’s critically-acclaimed solo album And It’s Still Alright, released in February. The song is set to appear in the upcoming Apple Original film Palmer, out January 29th, 2021 exclusively on AppleTV+. Nathaniel Rateliff released his first new music in 10 months on Thursday with the single, “Redemption”.
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