![]() Then she ignites the burner to begin the slow boil of this frog by empathizing with him. This is thinking you're the guest of honor at a surprise party and realizing it's an intervention. That's when you know you aren't where you thought you were. "My only son this will be so hard to hear" From the first note, I can feel him calling out expecting to be received like the Prodigal Son. Hey Mama embodies this notion perfectly. The song starts out with the character saying "Hey Mama, it's me." Reaching out to his mother after a long absence running down his dream and feeling dejected. For the support you need that shit has to be paid for in blood and tears. Just be careful, because you get what you pay for. You can get that kind of advice on the street from a stranger for free. You want to be coddled and reassured that what your feeling is OK. So it makes them feel good to just offer up what you want to hear. That's easy to come by, most people care too much about feeling good. " "It's okay you shucked your responsibilities to yourself and others and now, as a result, your life looks bleak".įuck that. " It's okay that you tried, failed, and are now going to call it a wrap, I'll hug you and it will all be fine. The kind of support I'm talking about now usually starts with "it's okay". It's so easy to give hollow support and it feels so good to do it. It's about the rare support that tells you what you don't want to hear, but need to hear all the same. To me, that's what the song Hey Mama is about. ![]() What starving artist needs more than bread in their jar is support, real support which is the hardest kind to give and recieve. The fact is they were just kids once and then starving artists for a long time after that. It was a beat of time that allowed me not to just see their success as a band headlining at Red Rocks, but to see a more complete story. I know they thought it was goofy and that this may have gone on for too long by the way Nathaniel Rateliff said "Fuckin' Shit! Let's do this already!" But the truth is it was a nice moment and likely very unique to this show. They encore with Hey Mama. But just before they do, in a tongue and cheek way they start to point out all their moms that are in the audience. So they leave the stage and the crowd roars for their return. It was the sax man Andy Wilds Birthday so they brought him out a cake and the crowd and the band sang Happy birthday it was cool. That's part of the beauty of Nathaniel Ratliff's music, you may not know what he is saying but you believe every word. Plenty of people knew the words but everyone at least knew the sounds that were going to come out of Nathaniel Rateliffs' mouth. So, the venue is electric, the show has got everyone out of their seats and doing their best to sing along.
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