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George Clinton & The P-Funk All Stars
The rhythm of family has been a constant thread throughout P-Funk’s long lineage and the myriad iterations the band has undergone in its 50-plus years. From The Parliaments to Funkadelic to Parliament Funkadelic to the P-Funk All Stars, George Clinton has conducted the mothership as a reliable father figure. When he commands you to „put a glide in your stride and a dip in your hip, and come on up to the Mothership,“ he’s presenting to you the first law of Funktonian physics. We at NPR pledged our groovellegiance when he and his P-Funk All Stars touched down to bless the Tiny Desk.
Clinton has brought his own bloodline into the most recent lineup of P-Funk: His grandchildren are the newest backup singers, while another grandchild serves as tour manager. Though this was a much smaller outfit than their traditional stage shows — no horn section, no dancers, no Sir Nose D’Voidoffunk — the extended family was also in full effect. Garrett Shider on rhythm guitar, filling in for his late father, Garry Shider, aka Starchild. Even original trumpeter Bennie Cowan, who still tours with the group but didn’t make it to the Tiny Desk, typically plays alongside his son Benzel on drums. Blackbyrd McKnight and Lige Curry cement the foundation as elder statesmen who’ve been rocking with Clinton since 1978.
Indeed, the funk father refuses to let the musicianship slip — the band was as sonically tight as ever, blessing us with a canonical three-song set list of classic jams. P-Funk’s influence shaped ’90s hip-hop and culture immeasurably; without Clinton, we’d have no NWA, no G-funk, no Tupac, no EPMD, no Ice Cube… and, of course, no one’s forgotten about Dre. Clinton and P-Funk brought world class funksmanship, and it was our pleasure to air the room out and squeegee the floors after soaking up their cosmic slop.
Set List
„Standing On The Verge Of Getting It On“
„One Nation Under A Groove“
„Give up the Funk (Tear the Roof off the Sucker)“
MUSICIANS
George Clinton (lead vocals), Dwayne Blackbyrd McKnight (guitar), Lige Curry (bass), Garrett Shider (guitar), Danny Bedrosian (keyboard), Benzel Cowan (drums), Tonysha Nelson (backup vocals), Patavian Lewis (backup vocals), Tairee Parks (backup vocals)
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Gogol Bordello
We’ve been filming Tiny Desk concerts for more than 10 years. While revisiting our archives, we discovered that some of our earliest concerts never made it to YouTube!
Watch Gogol Bordello’s Tiny Desk concert from 2010: https://www.npr.org/2019/09/11/128111…
Stephen Thompson | June 28, 2010
If you watch this video and don’t get to the part where Eugene Hutz is dancing on the desks, then you’ve missed the most rollicking and insane Tiny Desk Concert of all time.
I’ve seen Gogol Bordello at a nightclub, and its live show is a gypsy punk circus, complete with a high-wire act. So when the band arrived at the modest NPR Music offices, I wanted to make sure we were covered technically; I figured they’d move around and wind up singing far away from our microphones. I asked Sergey Ryabtsev — Gogol Bordello’s Russian-born violinist — if he thought bandleader Eugene Hutz might wind up dancing on my desk. With a huge smile and a large shot glass of vodka in hand, he said, „Don’t worry about it!“
By the third song, Hutz was sitting with the NPR crew in an office chair, singing his ode to alcohol. By the fourth, he was jumping from desktop to desktop, singing and dancing.
Gogol Bordello is based in New York City, and has been performing its theatrical concoction of accordion, violin and guitar since the late ’90s. The band writes songs about immigration and the celebration of cultural differences. Now, for 2010, Gogol Bordello has its fifth album out — its first on a major label. Producer Rick Rubin, known for his Johnny Cash production and for co-founding Def Jam Records, helped make Trans-Continental Hustle. It’s an album with more range than sheer thrust, and though the band played a few songs from that album at the desk, when Gogol Bordello is in front of a crowd, it’s in full-throttle mode. No complaints there.
Set List:
„Immigraniada (We’re Comin‘ Rougher)“
„My Compenjara“
„Alcohol“
„Pala Tute“
„Start Wearing Purple“--
"I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered." - George Best --- Dienstags und donnerstags, ab 20 Uhr, samstags ab 20.30 Uhr: Radio StoneFMFogerty’s Factory – John Fogerty + Family
The Tiny Desk is working from home for the foreseeable future. Introducing NPR Music’s Tiny Desk (home) concerts, bringing you performances from across the country and the world. It’s the same spirit — stripped-down sets, an intimate setting — just a different space.
April 24, 2020 | Bob Boilen — When John Fogerty breaks out his baseball bat guitar and swings into that famous guitar lick from „Centerfield“ to open his Tiny Desk (home) concert, I can almost taste the Cracker Jacks. Welcome to Fogerty’s Factory, the tricked-out basement where the Fogerty Family (John, his sons Tyler and Shane, and his daughter Kelsy) make music in these quarantined times. His desk is the road case his band Creedence Clearwater Revival used when they played Woodstock, and John shows off a guitar he played at the festival as well. He plays three of his CCR classics from 50 years ago (still singing in the same key), surrounded by family and sending out words of encouragement to all of us.
SET LIST
„Centerfield“
„Down On The Corner“
„Long As I Can See The Light“
„Proud Mary“--
"I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered." - George Best --- Dienstags und donnerstags, ab 20 Uhr, samstags ab 20.30 Uhr: Radio StoneFMEin Auftritt der American Primitive-Gitarristin Marisa Anderson aus Portland/Oregon von Juli 2014.
Gespielt bzw. improvisiert werden „Hard Times Come Again No More“ (vom im Dezenber 2013 veröffentlichten Album „Traditional and Public Domain Songs“), „Sinks and Rises“, „Hesitation Theme and Variation Blues“ und „Galax“ (vom im Juni 2013 erschienenen Album „Mercury“) und das zuvor unveröffentlichte „Canaan’s Land Medley“.
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"Bird is not dead; he's hiding out somewhere, and will be back with some new shit that'll scare everybody to death." (Charles Mingus)The Smile
SET LIST
„Pana-vision“
„The Smoke“
„Skrting On the Surface“MUSICIANS
Thom Yorke: vocals, piano, guitar, bass
Jonny Greenwood: bass, guitar
Tom Skinner: drums
Robert Stillman: saxophone--
Hey man, why don't we make a tune... just playin' the melody, not play the solos...Toll! Danke @atom.
Ein Auftritt der Singer-Songwriterin Joan Shelley aus Louisville/Kentucky von September 2015.
Gespielt werden „Easy Now“, „Stay on My Shore“ und „Not Over by Half“, alles Songs vom damals gerade neu erschienenen Album „Over and Even“.
Begleitet wird Joan Shelley von Nathan Salsburg an der zweiten Gitarre.--
"Bird is not dead; he's hiding out somewhere, and will be back with some new shit that'll scare everybody to death." (Charles Mingus)Ein sehr sympathischer Marc-André Hamelin
SET LIST:
C.P.E. Bach: Rondo in C Minor
William Bolcom: “Graceful Ghost Rag”
Marc-André Hamelin: Toccata on “L’homme armé”--
Hey man, why don't we make a tune... just playin' the melody, not play the solos...Ich hatte auch schon gesehen, dass endlich wieder hinterm Desk gespielt wird! Bei der At-Home-Serie habe ich manchmal gedacht, „was haben die denn für Wohnungen“?
Sehr locker und schön: King Princess
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If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.Großartig!
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"Man kann nicht verhindern, dass man verletzt wird, aber man kann mitbestimmen von wem. Was berührt, das bleibt!Die akustischen Versionen funktionieren wirklich fabelhaft, und Mikaela Straus ist einfach klasse. Frei nach Robbie: All the handsome girls are gay.:)
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beabadoobee
Mein Song des Tages „Glue“ ab 11:41.
Beatrice Laus, who performs as beabadoobee, possesses the sort of soft, lilting voice that often runs the risk of getting lost in her signature sound — a mix of grungy, ’90s rock and noisy dream pop. Mix Laus the wrong way in a live setting and you miss out on vocals that lend whatever song they’re paired with an undeniable sweetness and sincerity. But in her Tiny Desk performance, beabadoobee drops her rock and roll tendencies to a low simmer, giving her voice ample room to shine in a collection of songs suited for our quiet little corner. She begins with “See You Soon” on her acoustic guitar, the first of a string of tracks from her latest album, Beatopia, backed by a trio of strings and her longtime guitarist and collaborator Jacob Bugden (who she at one point politely ribs for failing at a recent attempt at crowd surfing while on tour). “Ripples” and “The Perfect Pair” follow, before she closes out with an unreleased song. “I could have played ‘Coffee,’ but I’m not,” she says, laughing, referring to her 2017 viral hit, a song that sounds so simple given how far her music has come. Instead she plays what she refers to as “Glue song,” a love song about a romance so strong it sticks its lovers together — you guessed it — like glue.
SET LIST
“See You Soon”
“Perfect Pair”
“Ripples”
“Glue”
MUSICIANS
beabadoobee: Vocals, Guitar
Jacob Bugden: Backing Vocals, Guitar
Kristine Kruta: Cello
Erica Swindell: Violin
Bobby Hawk: Violin
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"I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered." - George Best --- Dienstags und donnerstags, ab 20 Uhr, samstags ab 20.30 Uhr: Radio StoneFMEin Highlight für Folkfreunde ist das Tiny Desk Concert von Mama’s Broke, einem Folk-Duo aus Kanada, bestehend aus Amy Lou Keeler (rechts im Bild, Gitarre und Banjo) und Lisa Maria Bates (links im Bild, Mandoline und Fiddle). Sie präsentieren hier fünf Songs von ihren beiden Alben, Count the Wicked und Narrow Line (drei vom Debüt und zwei vom aktuellen Album). Mama’s Broke sind Label-Mates von Cinder Well (Amelia Baker) und auch mit ihr befreundet; das taugt vielleicht als Orientierung, wenn man das Duo noch nicht kennt. Ihre Musik ist aber vielseitig und bewegt sich frei zwischen Old-Time Mountain Music und zeitgenössischem Folk. Der Promo-Text zum Auftritt fasst es gut zusammen:
Lisa Maria Bates and Amy Lou Keeler make powerful songs with haunting harmonies and a mesh of fiddle, banjo, mandolin and guitar. (…) Elements of Appalachian folk, Celtic ballads, Nova Scotian traditions and Ukrainian folk from Lisa’s grandfather’s collection are woven into the duo’s music. (…) The opening song, written in Lisa’s uninsulated Nova Scotia cabin in the throes of the first pandemic winter, is filled with poignant resignation.
Just pick one, it’ll hurt some if it needs to
I know weakness is a sickness and a virtue
And cold bitter winds are never-ending
So just pick one, it’s a season, it’ll run throughThe songs come from Mama’s Broke’s new album, Narrow Line, and its 2017 debut, Count The Wicked. There are moments of hope in this set of somewhat dark songs: “What Can May Come” is one of those moments, and also, in the final tune “The Ones That I Love,” where Amy and Lisa put down their instruments and send love through those perfect harmonies.
SET LIST
“Just Pick One”
“Wrecking Need”
“What Can May Come”
“Even Though”
“The Ones That I Love”--
To Hell with PovertyFred again..
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Es ist Breitling, scheiß auf deine Aldi-Uhr / Auf meinem nächstem Cover halt ich das ExcaliburRaye
„I’m a songwriter for a living, okay. I usually have all the words but I’m genuinely speechless.“ RAYE told the audience at her Tiny Desk. „All I’ve wanted is to be seen and respected as a musician.“
The South London-bred singer-songwriter had finally made her way to NPR headquarters, her signature cherry-hued pin curls full of bounce and a radiant smile spread across her face. It was a long time coming, and in a re-arranged set of songs from her stunning debut album tailored to the Tiny Desk, RAYE exuded the confidence and abilities of a veteran vocal powerhouse.
In the game for over a decade, RAYE’s debut album was 7 years in the making after being stuck in a major label deal that had her confined to recording mainstream pop and electronic records, and penning hits for other artists instead of executing her own creative vision. Now independent, she released the genre-busting My 21st Century Blues this year, an impressive and raw album that touches on some of the artist’s most vulnerable life experiences. Over the course of her Tiny Desk, RAYE’s musicianship shines as she displays a melange of jazz scats, gospel and blues inflections. Closing out her set with „Buss It Down.,“ she recruits the audience for some call and response action only after giving us a brief vocal lesson, ‚cause that’s just how particular she is. If this Tiny Desk concert is your introduction to RAYE, prepare to be enraptured.
Set list:
Worth it
Five star hotels
Mary Jane
Buss it down--
out of the blue
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