Season 2008
(2008)
Cast
Episodes
Laura Gibson 0.0
April 22, 2008
Laura Gibson works through a handful of tenderhearted songs: two of them unreleased and two of them from her full-lengt…
Vic Chesnutt 0.0
June 5, 2008
When Athens, Ga., songwriter Vic Chesnutt was on tour in support of his album, “North Star Deserter,” he stopped by NPR…
Sam Phillips 0.0
June 25, 2008
The music of Sam Phillips unfolds like perfect, miniature pop dramas. Of all her incarnations as a performer — first as…
Sera Cahoone 0.0
July 10, 2008
Sera Cahoone got her start playing drums for a few widely adored bands in the Pacific Northwest, most notably Band of H…
Thao Nguyen 0.0
September 4, 2008
Thao Nguyen makes captivating music. Her songs are raw and infectious, her voice has a distinctive swagger, and she's a…
Lambchop's Kurt Wagner 0.0
October 8, 2008
Kurt Wagner writes and sings beautiful songs with Lambchop, a hefty Nashville ensemble with a calm, restrained sound. W…
Dr. Dog 0.0
October 20, 2008
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 l…
Jim White 0.0
November 7, 2008
Jim White is a storyteller first and a musician second. It's a kind of storytelling rooted in his own unusual history: …
Shearwater 0.0
November 14, 2008
A glorious four-song set that's at once pristine and ramshackle — equal parts clarity and clatter — not to mention one …
David Dondero 0.0
December 30, 2008
He should be a name everyone knows by now. Instead, troubadour David Dondero returned to NPR having slept the night bef…