NPR Tiny Desk Concerts: Season 1 - 10 Episode s
1x1 - Laura Gibson
April 22, 2008
Laura Gibson works through a handful of tenderhearted songs: two of them unreleased and two of them from her full-length debut, If You Come to Greet Me.
1x2 - Vic Chesnutt
June 5, 2008
When Athens, Ga., songwriter Vic Chesnutt was on tour in support of his album, “North Star Deserter,” he stopped by NPR to perform live at All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen's desk. Chesnutt played five songs, including two entirely new ones.
1x3 - Sam Phillips
June 25, 2008
The music of Sam Phillips unfolds like perfect, miniature pop dramas. Of all her incarnations as a performer — first as a Christian singer, then as a pop singer — the current Sam Phillips is one of the most alluring. Phillips performs four songs from “Don't Do Anything.”
1x4 - Sera Cahoone
July 10, 2008
Sera Cahoone got her start playing drums for a few widely adored bands in the Pacific Northwest, most notably Band of Horses and the spell-checker-defying Carissa's Wierd. But her self-titled, self-released 2006 album marked her as a fully formed talent — a warm and inviting singer whose songs convey world-weariness and homespun grace.
1x5 - Thao Nguyen
September 4, 2008
Thao Nguyen makes captivating music. Her songs are raw and infectious, her voice has a distinctive swagger, and she's a remarkably nimble guitarist.
1x6 - Lambchop's Kurt Wagner
October 8, 2008
Kurt Wagner writes and sings beautiful songs with Lambchop, a hefty Nashville ensemble with a calm, restrained sound. When Kurt Wagner came by the office to play a Tiny Desk Concert, he came alone, with just an acoustic guitar, a stack of lyrics and his humble, good-natured sense of humor.
1x7 - Dr. Dog
October 20, 2008
Dr. Dog isn't an obvious choice for one of NPR Music's Tiny Desk Concerts. For one thing, it's a pretty big group, at least for the small space behind Bob Boilen's desk. The band's music can be pretty chaotic — loud and rumbling, with multiple instruments fighting to be heard. And singer Toby Leaman likes to belt out his vocals in a window-rattling, raspy growl.
1x8 - Jim White
November 7, 2008
Jim White is a storyteller first and a musician second. It's a kind of storytelling rooted in his own unusual history: He grew up in Florida in a deeply Pentecostal community and fell in love with the white gospel music he heard. But from there, White took a surprising path to becoming a full-time musician. He was a professional surfer, a boxer, a fashion model in Milan and a cab driver in New York City. White's travels recently took him to Washington, D.C., where he stopped by the offices of NPR Music for this live performance.
1x9 - Shearwater
November 14, 2008
A glorious four-song set that's at once pristine and ramshackle — equal parts clarity and clatter — not to mention one of our best Tiny Desk Concerts yet.
1x10 - David Dondero
December 30, 2008
He should be a name everyone knows by now. Instead, troubadour David Dondero returned to NPR having slept the night before in his car. Dondero travels from club to club, singing his well-crafted songs — songs that have his signature lyrics at their core. His lyrics can make you smile with their wit and hurt with their bite, all at the same time.
NPR Tiny Desk Concerts: 18 Season s
S0: Specials
19 Episode s
S1: Season 2008
10 Episode s
S2: Season 2009
30 Episode s
S3: Season 2010
60 Episode s
S4: Season 2011
83 Episode s
S5: Season 2012
77 Episode s
S6: Season 2013
68 Episode s
S7: Season 2014
85 Episode s
S8: Season 2015
84 Episode s
S9: Season 2016
91 Episode s
S10: Season 2017
98 Episode s
S11: Season 2018
128 Episode s
S12: Season 2019
111 Episode s
S13: Season 2020
179 Episode s
S14: Season 2021
137 Episode s
S15: Season 2022
124 Episode s
S16: Season 2023
128 Episode s
S17: Season 2024
122 Episode s
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