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Sense of Place: Nathaniel Rateliff cultivates new crop of Denver talent

XPN | By Raina Douris,
Kimberly Junod
Published October 11, 2024 at 10:22 AM CDT

There are few bands more enmeshed in the Denver music scene than Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats.

Rateliff started out playing in the city in the early 2000s, and now he’s helping nurture Denver's next generation of musicians with a venue he co-owns called The Skylark Lounge. That’s where we met up with Nathaniel to record this session and kick off our brand new series, Sense of Place: Colorado.

Rateliff performs live and talks about writing his latest album, South of Here, in a bat-infested room; dealing with anxiety; the impact of his breakout hit “S.O.B.”; and his journey to Colorado with his longtime friend and Night Sweats bassist Joseph Pope.

Credits

  • Audio Recording: Robert Davis, Ashell Fox
  • Recorded by Colorado Sound Studios
  • Song Mixes: Patrick Meese
  • Video Producer: Doug Usher
  • Cinematographer: Steve Roberts
  • Camera Operator: Ben Hess
  • Video produced by The VIA Company
  • Video post production: George Murphy
  • Video editor: Bob Sweeney

This episode of World Cafe was produced and edited by Kimberly Junod. The web story was created by Miguel Perez. Our engineer is Chris Williams. Our programming and booking coordinator is Chelsea Johnson and our line producer is Will Loftus.

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Raina Douris
Raina Douris, an award-winning radio personality from Toronto, Ontario, is the host and writer of NPR's daily nationally-syndicated music interview and discovery program World Cafe. She has interviewed artists like Bruce Springsteen, Barbra Streisand, Questlove and Brandi Carlile, and was a 2022 keynote lecturer on the topic of Folk Music and music discovery at the Chautauqua Institution.
Kimberly Junod
World Cafe senior producer Kimberly Junod has been a part of the World Cafe team since 2001, when she started as the show's first line producer. In 2011 Kimberly launched (and continues to helm) World Cafe's Sense of Place series that includes social media, broadcast and video elements to take listeners across the U.S. and abroad with an intimate look at local music scenes. She was thrilled to be part of the team that received the 2006 ASCAP Deems Taylor Radio Broadcast Award for excellence in music programming. In the time she has spent at World Cafe, Kimberly has produced and edited thousands of interviews and recorded several hundred bands for the program, as well as supervised the show's production staff. She has also taught sound to young women (at Girl's Rock Philly) and adults (as an "Ask an Engineer" at WYNC's Werk It! Women's Podcast Festival).