![]() ![]() I got to get a little outside of myself to write about that versus being stuck in my own head.” Like in art class, when they said you can do whatever you want-some people struggled. “I always get a kick out of that,” he says. In that way, he could play freely and experiment without a certain familiar pressure. Rateliff says he enjoyed the process, especially because the song wasn’t for a personal band or solo project. ![]() He reached out to a singing group of three sisters he’d met when asked to perform at a Black Lives Matter rally in Englewood, Colorado, and he enlisted some of his band members in his group, The Night Sweats, for claps and other percussion. He started with guitar and then layered his voice, then added drums. So, the only thing to do then was to “chase down the song.” Rateliff experimented with some drum ideas and he and a studio crew methodically built the track. He showed the song to some trusted collaborators and they assured him he was on the right track. Talking about this idea of continuing to struggle until we find an answer, until we find peace in our lives.” I also tried to insert some of what I saw in the film and what I see in the world. “It helped me shape what I thought this character was going through. “The title came from that conversation,” Rateliff says. The conversation and the particular wording stuck with the songwriter and informed his writing. Rateliff, a longtime Colorado-based musician who rose to fame in 2015 with the song, “ S.O.B.,” says Timberlake described a specific “redemptive” courtroom scene in the film to him over the phone. Through their friendship, both are transformed, though it’s not easy. He befriends and begins to take care of an abandoned neighbor boy, who is often picked on in school. He tries to re-acclimate in his old hometown but it’s not easy. In the movie, Eddie Palmer, a former football star, comes home after spending a long time away in prison. I’m certainly familiar with that, and just the idea of having to live with family.” People who can’t seem to get away from bad situations even if they’re great people. People who, every time they seem to get ahead, they stumble right back. “You just see a lot of people struggling to have opportunities. “I grew up in rural Missouri,” Rateliff says. The result of Rateliff’s efforts is the new hopeful track, which mends as much as it inspires. Later, he talked with Timberlake about the essence of the movie and core scenes. He began humming melodies into a voice recorder as he propelled over long highway stretches. Because he’s personally familiar with people like Palmer (played by Justin Timberlake), Rateliff had a keen point of view from which to start writing the film’s culminating song, “ Redemption.” He received the opportunity out of the blue one day on his cell phone, while he was driving long distance to visit his girlfriend. Missouri-born songwriter, Nathaniel Rateliff, says he knows a lot of people like Eddie Palmer, the fictional main character in the dramatic movie, Palmer, which is out today on Apple TV+. ![]()
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