Nathaniel Rateliff – And It’s Still Alright

Nathaniel Rateliff uses a Shure Beta 58A microphone for vocals throughout his Tiny Desk (Home) Concert performance.

In this video from Gibson, Nathaniel Rateliff discusses and plays his signature model LG-2 Western. He says:

I’m excited to introduce to you my new signature Gibson model, the LG-2 Western.This is a combination of two of my favorite guitars; one is a 1967 Country Western, and the other one is a 1946 LG-2.

The LG-2 I actually just found on Craigslist while i was back home in Denver and went to pick it up and it was in such good condition when i first got it that i couldn't believe that it was from the year it was.

My Country Western, I won gambling with the guys in a game of high card. I ended up winning enough to buy it off of my front of house engineer Jamie Mefford. He had loaned it to me, and after this big game he was like “How much did you win?” and I told him. He's like, “That's kind of what I wanted for that guitar.” I was like, “Here you go.”

The LG-2, my favorite sound on that, a lot of times is just kind of thumbing through it with no pick. There's a really nice quality to the tonality of it.

The Country Western was definitely more of a strummer for me. I really feel like it takes a certain guitar to be able to play really hard for it not to kind of break up, or for the strings to rattle. So I tried to bring some of that into this model so that i could use the single guitar for multiple songs and styles of playing.

I feel like something that has a mixture of picking and strumming like and it's still all right is great for this guitar.

Nathaniel Rateliff owns a Nash T12 guitar, which he purchased from Bill Nash during the early days of The Night Sweats. This guitar has been used extensively in his home studio and was featured prominently in the main lead line of the title track on his 2020 album, And It’s Still Alright. The guitar has also been used in subsequent live performances. This information is supported by a listing on Reverb.com.

This Ampeg Portaflex is owned by Nathaniel Rateliff

This amp was one of two that were used for almost all the bass recordings on And It’s Still Alright.

Nathaniel Rateliff owned and used a Moog Grandmother synthesizer, which he purchased in 2017. This instrument was employed in the creation of his albums And It’s Still Alright and The Future. This information is verified by Reverb, where the Moog Grandmother was listed as previously owned by Rateliff.