Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats Share Buoyant ‘Buy My Round’ Single

Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats premiered a new single entitled “Buy My Round.” The new song will appear on the group’s forthcoming EP, What If I, which is set for release via Stax on June 2.

“‘Buy My Round’ is a song about trying to keep a friendship together with someone that keeps pulling away,” Night Sweats’ Mark Shusterman stated. “It’s something that had been bouncing around in my head for a while, so I was excited when Nathaniel wanted to help me finish it for this recording. It was great to get to sing together on this one.”

The EP was produced by Bradley Cook and R.M.B. (the production team of Rateliff, Pat Meese and James Barone). Four of the songs making up What If I were recorded during sessions for the band’s 2021 album The Future, including “Slow Pace of Time” which features Preservation Hall Jazz Band’s clarinetist Charlie Gabriel. They appear along with the newly written and recorded “Buy My Round.”

“Mark had been playing this one [“Buy My Round”] while we were writing for The Future but we never got a chance to dig into it,” Rateliff revealed. “This is our first big collaboration on a song together and it turned out great.”

Stream “Buy My Round” below: