Classic country music, the stuff of AM radio and the Grand Ole Opry, is a study in contrasts. There’s glitz and grit, reveling and wallowing, wretchedness and showmanship. Country music’s greats wore their battered hearts on sequined sleeves. From Bakersfield […]
NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert features many of your favorite musicians performing at All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen’s desk in NPR’s Washington D.C. office. Since Boilen announced this week that he’s in search of a great unknown band to welcome to […]
Great singers aren’t easy to come by, so finding three in one band is something special. The Wild Reeds’ music shines when Sharon Silva, Kinsey Lee and Mackenzie Howe harmonize, but each also takes a leading role — and that’s […]
She came to the Tiny Desk a little unsure, and left singing “West Memphis” with intensity and passion. Lucinda Williams has a voice like no other, and it shines in these intimate moments. Williams is on a roll with a […]
So I’m in Nashville, standing in line at a food/music festival ordering some kind of pulled pork bun when this guy behind me says hears my voice, recognizes me and says “hey Bob Boilen…Bobby Bare Jr. here, I’ve been hoping […]
After spending time with Christopher Paul Stelling’s third album, Labor Against Waste, I expected a certain intensity to his performance. But I didn’t expect him to nearly implode behind my desk, as the fierceness of his heartfelt songs was set […]
It says a lot that, with almost 7,000 entries to choose from, we selected Fantastic Negrito as the winner of our Tiny Desk Concert Contest. For his winning submission, he performed “Lost In A Crowd” in a freight elevator in […]
It wasn’t always this way: In the past, Rateliff would be more easily described as a folk artist. When I saw him recently at a sold-out Sunday-night show in D.C., he expressed intense gratitude for the new audience that’s found […]
We probably should have shot this Tiny Desk Concert in black-and-white. Listening to Leon Bridges, I hear a sound with its heart and soul rooted in 1962. There’s purity in his voice that’s unadorned, untouched and unaffected by 21st-century pop. […]
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