Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats announce new anniversary holiday shows December 10 & 11

Tickets and VIP packages for the concert will be available starting with an artist presale beginning Tuesday, October 21 at 10 A.M. (local). Additional presales will continue throughout the week ahead of the general on-sale beginning Friday, October 24 at 10 A.M. (local) here. Full details and list of upcoming dates can be found here.

Last week saw Rateliff sit in alongside Louis Cato in the Late Show Band on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert; the band performed both tracks from the debut album including “I Need Never Get Old”—watch Colbert’s glowing highlight of the anniversary on the episode here.

A monumental album in Rateliff’s career, Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats kickstarted a ride that has only accelerated in the ensuing decade with career-making moments along the way: From the band’s first appearances on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and Saturday Night Live, tours and collaborations with everyone from Paul Simon to Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson, and ever-growing venue sizes from clubs to theatres to Rateliff’s beloved Red Rocks to arenas including a sold out Madison Square Garden show on his recent landmark arena tour.

On the eleven new demos added to the project, Rateliff shares, “The journey of a song has to start somewhere. Songs can be ideas that sit for years. Sometimes they are hiding from within, and it is up to us to become available, to welcome their melodic birth. Here are eleven unheard ideas that started in my attic a little over ten years ago. I had one mic, a two-channel interface, a two-channel preamp, and my laptop. I used those tools just well enough at the time to capture ideas in the moment they arrived. The process of recording these demos came as such a surprise and lead to making one of my most treasured friendships. I thought I was going to make the last record of my career. Instead, it was the start of a new life.”

After years working to moderate acclaim as a more folk-leaning singer-songwriter, Rateliff was considering returning to his previous, more stable, career as a gardener when inspiration struck in the form of the first ever track written for the Night Sweats, “Trying So Hard Not To Know.” The spigot was opened and the songs poured out in the exact blend he’d imagined of bracing Stax-style R&B and richly crafted roots rock. Recording demos in his attic on GarageBand, this experimentation ultimately comprised the band’s eponymous, gold-selling 2015 debut album, which spawned four top twenty Triple A hits in “I Need Never Get Old,” “Look it Here,” “Wasting Time,” and the two-times platinum “S.O.B.”

Produced by the late, great Richard Swift, the album holds one of the most poignant looks at

Swift and Rateliff’s long road of collaboration.

The band’s first late night appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon in 2015 proved a major turning point in the band’s career. In a full circle moment, Fallon made a surprise appearance at the band’s landmark, sold-out show at Madison Square Garden this year, joining them for their encore and giving an electric rendition of “S.O.B.”—watch here. Watch the band most recent appearance on The Tonight Show here.

The reissue comes following Rateliff and band winning Album of the Year at the 2025 Americana Awards for their critically acclaimed fourth full-length studio album album South of Here, out now via Stax; they were also nominated for Song of the Year for “Heartless.” South of Here saw two #1s: “Heartless” and “Call Me (Whatever You Like)” topping the Adult Alternative Chart, marking their 7^th and 8^th #1s to date. The band’s video for the title track from the album, directed by Brantley Gutierrez on 35mm film, exclusively premiered on Rolling Stone and was featured by Kodak Shoot Film—watch the video here.

Additionally, Rateliff has been appointed as Newport Folk Steward, the first artist to hold such a role at the legendary festival since Pete Seeger. The position holds a three-year term, which will see Rateliff serving as Steward actively for two years and advising the next recipient during a third transition year. Rateliff has chosen to devote his term to artist advocacy, fellowship and mentorship both at the Fort and beyond.