It’s a pretty piece of music and of filmmaking. It looks like she recorded the performance at sunrise, with the rays hitting her and her guitar just right. Next to the only window was a tiny desk with a heavy, leather-bound book in the center: the Big Book of Magical Objects. Lenker played the songs single “ anything” solo-acoustic, with one microphone picking up both her voice and guitar. She may have recorded that one at Joshua Tree again in any case, it’s some kind of sandy landscape. Lenker gave her Colbert performance outside. 25K 881K views 2 years ago The Tiny Desk is working from home for the foreseeable future.

Last night, Lenker was the musical guest on Stephen Colbert’s Late Show, and it was even cooler. But Lenker, who released the solo quarantine albums songs and instrumentals last year, knows how to give a TV performance that puts her in the best possible light, figuratively and literally.Ī couple of months ago, Lenker played a quick set for NPR’s Tiny Desk Concerts series while parked in a trailer at Joshua Tree. In the quarantine era, without the rest of her band with her, Big Thief leader Adrianne Lenker can’t possibly hope to conjure the same level of focus and chemistry. Over the past few years, Big Thief have given some truly memorable performances on late-night TV. Big Thief are the latest act to perform a Tiny Desk (Home) Concert, and they filmed it from a space just as intimate as the setting at NPR Studios.

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