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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.
This is so enchanting. The painted scrim, the scenery trees are not only a setting for Sara Watkins and her bandmates, but we also discover a magic desk. And as Sara lifts the desk s top, we hear a guitar playing an alluring melody; in fact, it s Harry Nilsson s dreamy song Blanket For a Sail.
I admired Sara s talents first as a fiddler, guitarist and singer playing in Nickel Creek, then her solo work, and much later with the trio I m With Her. However, none of her music, even her solo recordings, ever sounded quite like the music on this Tiny Desk (home) concert. The songs are from her new album,
Thursday, May 13, 2021 by Bob Boilen (NPR)
Sara Watkins performs a Tiny Desk (home) concert.
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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.
This is so enchanting. The painted scrim, the scenery trees are not only a setting for Sara Watkins and her bandmates, but we also discover a “magic desk.” And as Sara lifts the desk’s top, we hear a guitar playing an alluring melody; in fact, it’s Harry Nilsson’s dreamy song “Blanket For a Sail.”