NPR Tiny Desk Concerts: Season 2008
Episode Guide
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Laura Gibson
Apr 22, 2008 · 15 min
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.
Vic Chesnutt
Jun 5, 2008 · 27 min
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 de
Sam Phillips
Jun 25, 2008 · 18 min
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 P
Sera Cahoone
Jul 10, 2008 · 21 min
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
Thao Nguyen
Sep 4, 2008 · 18 min
Thao Nguyen makes captivating music. Her songs are raw and infectious, her voice has a distinctive swagger, and she's a remarkably nimble guitarist.
Lambchop's Kurt Wagner
Oct 8, 2008 · 18 min
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 Concer
Dr. Dog
Oct 20, 2008 · 13 min
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
Jim White
Nov 7, 2008 · 22 min
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 f
Shearwater
Nov 14, 2008 · 19 min
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.
Dave Dondero
Dec 30, 2008 · 17 min
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 hi