We first began speaking with Alana Springsteen a few Tiny Desk live performance greater than a yr in the past, again when she started releasing the three EPs that may make up her gorgeous debut album Twenty One thing. By the point we lastly bought her within the workplace, she confirmed up able to make it rely, with a fastidiously organized setlist she delivered in an impossible-to-miss, vibrant purple, leather-based go well with, backed by an unimaginable band.
Springsteen’s set featured a number of surprises, together with a model of the Tiësto music “Scorching Honey” (a monitor she guested on when Tiësto launched it final month). She additionally carried out a model new music we’re premiering known as “feels good,” a twisted story about flirting with demise, going to extremes and self-sabotage.
Springsteen additionally included a slow-burning model of “ghost in my guitar,” swapping the electrical guitar carried out by Chris Stapleton on her album for a cello, earlier than closing with a stripped-down model of the title reduce to Twenty One thing, a deeply transferring coming-of-age music that left numerous us on the workplace in tears.
SET LIST
- “ghost in my guitar”
- “Scorching Honey”
- “feels good”
- “twenty one thing”
MUSICIANS
- Alana Springsteen: lead vocals, acoustic guitar, piano
- Alec Parrish: drums, vocals
- Josh Beatty: lead guitar, acoustic guitar
- Gideon Klein: metal guitar, cello
- Daniel Cooper: piano, guitar, vocals
TINY DESK TEAM
- Producer: Robin Hilton
- Director/Editor: Kara Body
- Audio Technical Director: Neil Tevault
- Host/Sequence Producer: Bobby Carter
- Videographers: Kara Body, Maia Stern, Joshua Bryant, Grace Raver
- Audio Engineer: Valentina Rodriguez Sanchez
- Manufacturing Assistant: Ashley Pointer
- Photographer: Sofia Seidel
- Tiny Desk Copy Editor: Hazel Cills
- Govt Producer: Suraya Mohamed
- Sequence Creators: Bob Boilen, Stephen Thompson
- VP, Visuals and Music: Keith Jenkins
