One day in the summer of 2015, Jimmy Fallon, the host of The Tonight Show, received an e-mail from a close friend, Corbin Day. "Check out this video," Day wrote. "He should be on the show." There was a link to a YouTube clip by Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats, an eight-piece band unknown outside Denver. "Everybody has an idea of how to make the show better, who I should have
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