Sharing some of the emails from those friends and fans of Nathan who do not have a MySpace account:

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Nathan was one of those driving forces in a person's life that assures they will never be the same. He made me angry, and he made me smile, and I cannot count the times we stumbled home together through the streets of whichever town we were in, until we both decided it was too much and made promises to each other and our families. I remember my first and only sober New Year's Eve, the one I spent driving around with him and that we decided was the first day of the rest of our lives, until everything spun topsy-turvy and we ended up right back where we started.

My favorite memory of Nathan will always be him tucked on my couch, fresh out of rehab and hiding from the world, reading me a Nate the Great book and making promises. He was a bastard and he broke his promises again and again, but there was something about how unapologetic he was in every single part of his life that always made it forgiveable. I loved him most when he was the Nathan you get when you're alone with him, when it was just the two of us and our guitars making plans to blow this whole world apart with our music. Goddamn that boy could work a crowd though, and it was a pleasure to watch him.

So, Nathan: thanks for the memories, thanks for the songs, thanks for the fire. Thank you for teaching me how to live and breathe music instead of just playing, and thanks for continuing to push me to play every time we talked. Thank you for each and every word you've written, because who you were in songs is the true you, the purest you, and I can keep that forever. I won't lie: I'm angry, so very angry, that you turned your life and songs into a self-fulfilling prophecy, but I'll stop being angry one day because I love you so much. I promise.

To Nathan's parents: you were extraordinary people, and you gave your son everything. I'm not much for prayers, but you're in my thoughts today because I cannot imagine how this has undone you.

Shannon Campbell
http://www.shannoncampbell.info

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I so appreciate your contacting me again. We are so very sad about his death. My son is broken hearted over this. He cared for Nathan as a friend and had played music with him many times. We saw them play a coffee house in Charleston in July, and then went to a late dinner.
His death is a huge loss to his family, and to all who knew how gifted he was in his career.
May good somehow come from this.
 
Sorrowing with you,
Libby Acuff

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Lloyd,our son Brandon and I were at the Gig at the Blue martini Saturday night.
I took some pictures,, I cannot even take them off the camera to see what is there...
I have done nothing but cry since Paddy called on the way to his gig at Husk Hardware...
As a mother, I always knew Nate was going to fight his addiction to his last breath. I wanted him to win, to live to be a hundred, to live longer than me,to regale us with his music forever.
I am so glad we got to spend one last night filling my heart and soul with him... and to let him know we still were out there for him. He always had that effect on me..from the very first time I heard him play with Alibi, with Chad  John Henry and  the Alexander boy... he filled me up  and even though his music could often be depressing, it had the opposite effect on me...it made me feel cleansed.
I am bereft and a piece of me is gone with him.
No matter how many times we all reached out to him, he, in the end ,was the only one to fight the inner demon.
Only the good die young and he died way too soon..
He wrote his own legacy.."I"ll be singin from my grave", and that is all we have left..
Vickie

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Ria,
 
Rebecca called me and told me that Nathan passed.   I am so sorry to hear that.  I know that you were so very close and it must hurt like losing a family member since you two seemed like best friends.
 
I am glad that I got the chance to hear him play at least once. He seemed like a real stand-up kind of fellow when we briefly met.    His talent will be deeply missed. 
 
I hope that you take care of yourself. My best thoughts are with you and my prayers go out to Nathan and his family.
 
take care,
your friend,
Darrell