KELLY: It's funny because anybody who's seen you perform live is going to have a hard time reconciling that guy with somebody who's shy. But I really wanted to be a guitar player, and songwriting was sort of a second to that. And my mom and my dad played and so did my sister, and I was always encouraged to sing or forced to sing. RATELIFF: Actually, in the beginning, I was a little shy. NATHANIEL RATELIFF AND THE NIGHT SWEATS: (Singing) Wait did you think that I would break underneath the pressure in here? Now at the heart if not to feel is a wandering waste in the driest land (ph). (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "TEARING AT THE SEAMS") And I didn't really expect for all of this to happen.
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And, you know, I think when you're young, you have these ideas and aspirations of becoming a, you know, rock star or a professional musician. And then we just continued to make music together. And he kind of immediately started playing guitar and writing songs. Joseph, I think at the time when I met him, played trumpet. RATELIFF: You know, we immediately started playing music together. KELLY: And was this something you two arrived at together, like we're going to grow up, we're going to be musicians, we're going to have a band? And, you know, sometimes you meet people in your lives and you just realize that you're supposed to spend your life together. You know, we grew up together and moved to Colorado in '98 together. She's like, I didn't realize when I was marrying Joseph that I was also marrying you. Joseph and I are very close, closer than brothers really. KELLY: I want to ask about one of your bandmates, who I gather you're particularly close to. Tell your mama that you're leaving home and your friends are going to come along. NATHANIEL RATELIFF AND THE NIGHT SWEATS: (Singing) We'll be dancing and having fun. 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. 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. You know, I'm so fortunate that my bandmates and I are - it's like a gang of brothers, really.
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. NATHANIEL RATELIFF AND THE NIGHT SWEATS: (Singing) Now it might be that I'm being swayed in a lie. He and his band, Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats, found huge success with their first album. KELLY: Now, Nathaniel Rateliff makes his own very different style of music. NATHANIEL RATELIFF AND THE NIGHT SWEATS: (Singing) I've been coolin' out, baby. 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. 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. So that tape opened up a whole new world. He wasn't allowed to listen to secular music, and he did not like having to play in his family's band at church. KELLY: Rateliff's parents were devout Christians. 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. NATHANIEL RATELIFF: Well, it was actually - it was in the barn when we lived out in Bay (ph). LED ZEPPELIN: (Singing) Walking in the park just the other day, baby. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "MISTY MOUNTAIN HOP") Nathaniel Rateliff was a kid in small-town Missouri when he found a tape that changed his life.
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