
“After touring relentlessly, Nathaniel needed a break, so he went to work on a solo album. This time around, the singer was exploring another side of himself with a somber, folksier-style of music, similar to his work previous to the Night Sweats albums. His 2017 design for the Red Rocks shows was, at the time, the largest lighting and video rig that Brown Note Productions had ever put in for a non-EDM show.

Roth has been designing all of those shows as well as their tours. Every year since then, Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats, all Colorado natives, have sold out multiple night runs at Red Rocks.

This led to bigger productions as his popularity grew,” says Roth. “A few years later, after that record had gotten a lot of acclaim and attention, Nathaniel called me to help out with production elements for a club-and-theater tour. Through mutual friends, a kinship was born. Back around 2014, Swift had the then-relatively-unknown singer Nathaniel Rateliff in his studio making his first Night Sweats album. One of them was musician and recording producer Richard Swift.

Production designer Jeremy Roth resides in the small covered-bridge capital of Oregon known as Cottage Grove, where he’s been fortunate to share this small, forested hamlet with a few industry friends over the years. Jeremy Roth and Brown Note Productions Light Socially Distanced Gigs at Landmark Venue Nathaniel Rateliff plays in front of the forged metal lamps.
