Nathaniel Rateliff and Colorado Symphony Orchestra

I can always appreciate a singer songwriter accompanying themselves on a guitar. I can sympathize with that, deeply because I’ve been a singer accompanying myself on a guitar for the last seven years, and it takes time, such does any music to penetrate that glass ceiling that you can see bands or artists that you would call your contemporaries, doing what they love, making a splash somewhere, somehow. But seriously, lets talk about Nathanniel Rateliff, a singer songwriter who has been doing what he does for a long time, with a vast discography behind him, but giving this guy a chance was a great decision. His music definitely speaks louder than words, and so do his songs, which are fantastically crafted. One of the ones that really stuck with me was “Early Spring Till”, which he performed accompanied by his nylon strung acoustic guitar and the belting vocals from Julie Davis, who is pretty much an unknown, but the marriage of their vocals together is just a force to be reckoned with. Their voices blend so well and you find yourself singing them for days afterwards.