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- March 7, 2016 by BOB BOILEN
There are nine spare, simple songs on Julien Baker's debut album, Sprained Ankle, and every one of them is sad. In fact, she came to the Tiny Desk with an untitled new one - since given the name "Funeral Pyre" - and she appropriately introduced it as "Sad Song #11." But Baker's shimmering electric-guitar picking, the purity of her voice and the yearning way she sings make each of her songs lovely and memorable rather than merely somber. She takes raw emotions and weaves them into perfect bits of memorable poetry like this, from the song "Good News":
In the thin air my ribs creak
Like wooden dining chairs when you see me
Always scared that every situation ends the same
With a blank stare
For fans of Torres, another Tennessee musician, there's a similar intensity to that electric guitar and lonesome sound. But unlike the intensity Torres unleashes with her voice, Baker lets her words carry the volume. It's a tone that lulls you into her world and has me eagerly anticipating "Sad Song #12" and beyond.
Sprained Ankle is available now.
iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/album/spr...
Amazon: www.amazon.com/Sprained-Ankle-...
Set List:
"Sprained Ankle"
"Funeral Pyre"
"Something"
Credits:
Producers: Bob Boilen, Niki Walker; Audio Engineer: Josh Rogosin; Videographers: Niki Walker, Kara Frame; Production Assistant: Jackson Sinnenberg; Photo: Emily Bogle/NPR.
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its amazing what you can do with nothing but a looper and a telecaster and 200 metric tons of talent
What an exceedingly gentle and lovely human Julien seems to be. She's one of the those people I want to buy a coffee and just listen to her life story.
6 years later, this is still one of my favorite live performances of all time. whenever i feel like the world wont stop crushing me, julien is always there for me.
Me too 💕
@@jorb1903 wishing you well friend
hope you are well now
@@qkdtoal hey, taking it day by day. hope you're alright as well.
I’ve been fighting cancer for a year and I regularly find myself coming back to this performance. Your comment summarises why so well
"Thank you for your courteous laughter." My heart just melted.
"taking time out of your work day, I appreciate that." such a simple thing but a sweet sentiment.
+Jack Hogan thought the exact same thing. It stood out to me.
julien is not only absurdly talented but also so gentle and respectful towards the people appreciating her art she's just an awesome person overall
Coming to this after discovering her through boygenius. How have I never heard of her until now??? She's amazing, but I have to mention her remarkable guitar tone.
She knows the way of the tone for sure!
Estamos iguales, estoy enamorada
"thank you for your courteous laughter"
ohmylord i have melted and cannot regain shape sorry
It was such a sweet moment!
She has no idea how many bad days, rejections, breakups, and losses she’s gotten me through listening to her albums on repeat for hours in my headphones -feeling like at least one person on earth understands me. I wish I could thank her personally.
Same
Same. 😊
if we experience these feelings even if we are far away or we do not know each other, never feel alone, we are next to each other but this reality that surrounds us distracts us. ciao
Your comment is just plain cool.
@@broadcastocazzo thank you. ❤️🩹
Why am I finding out about this ARTIST just this year? I could listen to her sing anything and be mesmerized. Talent infuses every fiber of her being.
"call me a coward, but im too scared to leave; cause I want you to be the last thing I see"
damn that hits hard
I read this and burst into tears. Ughhhhhh.
Literally read it as she sang it
Just saw her live and she was probably the smallest person in the room but one song in she bared her soul to us all and had us in the palm of her hand for the next hour. She's something special
That tone though
Alec Schmutte its the Audio Weber Descent reverb pedal. Not cheap but totally worth it.
bandofmountains walrus audio**
Rene Fierro well which is it
bandofmountains ?
Walrus audio descent reverb is what they were referring to.
It feels so personal, like she's just singing to me.
That's Grammy Award winning Julien Baker.
Her guitar just drowns me in emotion. This is the first time I've seen or heard her, and I bought concert tickets 15 minutes after watching this. There's just something in her that brings all my emotions to the surface of my mind. Thank you for sharing your amazing talents.
I feel like there is an aesthetic to her music that has been missing from "indie" music for awhile. The soft heartfelt sadness of her songs kind of reminds me of how the indie scene was in the 2000's with Bright Eyes, Death Cab, Rilo Kiley, Tegan and Sara, Sufjan, ect.
you should see her cover of Death Cab's Photobooth
well there are alot of Indie Artists who can transmit that feeling.
first ones that come to my mind are Bear's Den and The Staves for example. :)
I feel like the 1975 and aquilo sort of do that
what does indie even mean anymore today not much back then indie meant somthing now its just a other easy genre section :/ but she is greath tho
Soft heartfelt sadness has been missing from indie music? Seems like 80% of tiny desk concerts are soft heartfelt sadness.
Oh my god, what beautiful guitar work.
Agreed. The first note struck reminded me instantly of Keaton Henson's opening song on his Tiny Desk appearance.
+Levi Warnos I thought the same thing. The song you're thinking of is You Don't Know How Lucky You Are. A beautiful song as well with beautiful guitar work.
+Ducky
Indeed. When I discovered Keaton's performance, it rocked me to the core. I can still remember the shower I took with his voice and vibrations soothing my confused, bruised, and battered thoughts and soul, crying to depths that I refuse to touch or release, almost to the point of absurdity after certain family deaths, close friends and community elders, often very tragic/strange/close knitted circumstances.
I was in the trenches; I also had gone through a nearly 3-year break up the July prior (2014). Then, some time later, it was the first major winter blizzard in Michigan's Upper Peninsula - the white, muted, endless landscape outside and in my mind that I had to face to survive... I can remember the wind howling outside the bathroom window of the cabin my parent's rented for the weekend that we hunkered down in... the soothing steam and my gnarled spine, the stone of the floor where the water pooled and drained, the lyrics that said what I couldn't so perfectly, that in ways both generally and specifically paired frighteningly close with my life and my struggle with expressing what, in many ways, seemed surreal, for it was all too real.
Like how my parent's struggled to listen to their poetic graduate student son and his newest venture in 'Spiritual Writing or the Lack Thereof', confronting his deepest fears and anxieties for 4 credits, trying to make sense of anything in the wake of loss and unsaid words and clenching regret that still, at times, haunts or follows me two years later (not simply spiritually or metaphorically, but physically, too), while C-Span debated and droned, reading speeches about ISIS, some new threat, and Captain Kirk and the original Khan (not Benedict Cumberbatch, but a sexist in tune with the tone of the times) met on the adjacent channel.
My life, or my perception of what is mine and more, has been strange and skewed as any or few. His music helped me heal and grieve so much. I wanted to show my mother 'Nests', but never have. Simply put, I'm so thankful for people like this, when I run out of words.
8 or 9 years ago, I met Julien at a friend of mines studio in Atoka, TN. My brother had somehow became acquainted with her and realized her talent and got her to track a 5 song demo at our friends studio. She did the whole thing live, in one take. She's a beast! We were all blown away from her seemingly, effortless display of raw, talent. She was the first artist to help expand my musical pallet and introduce me to indie music. I listened to that demo for the longest time on my ipod. Time had separated me from this artists work. I am so glad that she is getting the recognition she has deserved for years!
wasnt she like 7 then?
@@timothy790110 13
Awesome story. Thanks for sharing.
What always strikes me about artists like this is there true and genuine humility. You can tell she is truly appreciative that the audience took time out of their workday to watch her perform. I hope she knows that it is they that should be thanking her.
Her beauty mixed with the soft sadness of her songs just melts my heart away. This is perfect "lay in bed introspectively looking up at the ceiling" music
she creates the most beautiful soundscapes wit that one guitar. doesnt even need a band 👏👏
Top Floor Inc behold the beauty of Loop Pedal Technique
She's so quiet and shy...but, her music speaks volumes! Beautiful!!!
I'm 63 and I'm madly in love! I wish I had 40 more years, just to hear the beautiful music this young women will create.
Hope this is real cause that's so pure
This comment made me cry.
Why’d this comment make me cry tho
@@Jermthewerm801 it did me too.
Bryant - I feel as if you should check in with us every year, just to know that we're all still surviving and listening to incredible music together! (:
Julien Baker is one of the few artists that convey sorrow in such a form that it causes euphoria
Yep. That’s it. You nailed it perfectly. She picks out the strands from sorrow that are the most crystalline and reflective and she spins them into something close to pure euphoric release. It’s all so brittle but unbreakable, and the sounds that pass her lips meld with the sounds from her fingertips and they all become instant monuments to every feeling she’s ever felt, monuments of perfect glass that will stand forever, tall and unyielding, never losing their light.
I've never heard a clearer voice in my life. wow
Something about her voice never fails to give me chills. Honestly makes my eyes well up. Supremely talented
She seems so fragile and her eyes tell they've been through some things. Very powerful
NPR Tiny Desk always makes me buy music because the artists are so small and so good that I can't just torrent them.
+Username47948 no literally. you can't torrent them. They are too little ;D
+Username47948 do not torrent music ever, they need to make money from their art, it's not free and what they do for a living
Exactly and they earn so little with their music. Take Kanye west for example: He is in personal debt of 50 million and that's just because you the Torrenters - obviously
+Jens P If you're trying to make me feel sympathy for Kanye West, you're failing miserably.
+raziell He was making a point...
00:00 Sprained Ankle
03:01 Funeral Pyre
07:49 Something
thank you for this! i’m rewatching these old videos of julien and couldn’t quite put my finger on funeral pyre 🥰
My band played a show in a basement in Memphis. Follow your heroes was the touring band. There was another local band playing that night. Julien was the singer of that band. Everyone in that room knew she was going to go and do great things. Its so amazing to see after all these years. She did it. She did great things.
Forrister?
the way she feels her music while performing. so phenomenal to watch
I absolutely LOVE the artists NPR chooses for their TDCs. I've found so many great artists, Julien Baker being one of them for sure. Fuck yea
Mark Medina My favorite one so far is PWR BTTMS. Within a minute of seeing their NPR set I was in love.
High Deaf Radio man I don't even like pwr bttms but they did do a great show for tdc
Mark Medina Pinegrove is my favourite
That look and arm movement on 7:41 and the fact that she is always saying "thank you", made me fall for her and even enjoy her music even more. Julien Baker, if you ever read this, I want to let you know that you definately got a new fan and that I am grateful for your music.
Anyone else getting Explosions in the sky vibes from her guitar melodies? Beautiful..
D T Your Hand in Mine is one of those songs I’m always in the mood to listen to at night. I got the same vibes.
omg first thing I thought of! glad someone else was on the same page
chetanddesai Speaking of which, how great would a new Explosions album be!
most relevant comment ever
I get like a more laid back Covet/Yvette Young tone from her
40 seconds in and I'm already hooked. I so want to hug her and tell her she can fix anyone's sad day with her voice.
Right! I have loved daughter and Jose Gonzalez for a long time and to discover her is like a new warm blanket of music.
0:00 Sprained Ankle
3:21 Untitled (Funeral Pyre)
8:06 Something
I love this whole set, but sometimes I have to come back for just Funeral Pyre...
same feelsbadman
Absolutely agree.
That is the most beautiful telecaster i've ever seen.
ClassicalQuack and head
Is that a new gender pronoun?
Oh I already have a nice MIA tele, the lake placid blue is gorgeous though.
I actually think it's agave blue. I used to own one.
Isn't it.. I have one as well bahahahah ♥
3 years later still my number 1 tiny desk performance
I feel like Julien is going to become a legend soon. we only get talent like this every so often.
"Something," is one of my favorite songs of all time.
Not my usual style at all, but there's no question this girl is incredibly talented, and her vulnerability is also very endearing.
this performance changed the trajectory of my life forever
i watch this whenever im sad and it manages to make me more sad but the sadness is more bareable somehow. her voice isn't a sound, it's a feeling.
Finally, Explosions in the Sky got a singer
+Tyler Nunes Funny, cause that's exactly what I was thinking
+Tyler Nunes Post rock has been around for decades. She's not the first to sing over post rock guitars just because you're hearing it for the first time in 2016 haha.
Sense of humor has been around for milleniums. Youre not the first to not get a joke haha.
Brqinstorm I got the joke. But it was a joke made in ignorance by someone who thinks all post rock is "Explosions in the Sky".
Brqinstorm My point is that this guy is devaluing Julien's music by saying it's just "explosions in the sky with a singer'. No need to write a fucking essay about it.
I never thought i'd see someone dwarfed by a telecaster. my god this girl can sing, though.
She came through Omaha a few weeks back, a friend and I managed to get tickets, got there super early and actually stood there as she hopped out of her tour van and walked down the street not even two feet from the two of us. We got into the venue (The Waiting Room Lounge) as soon as we could and got right up to the stage. The opening band I forget, but they were a super chill folk group. Then when Julien came on stage, after the initial applause, the silence in the room as she performed was absolutely stunning. She sometimes would step away from the mic and wouldn't come through the PA, but we were close enough that we could hear her natural voice as she just poured her heart into her music. It was an absolutely breathtaking show, one that I wish I could see again. Unfortunately, it's almost made me not want to listen to her recordings, because the live show was so absolutely good. After the show my friend and I hung around for a while, she came out and my friend actually managed to get her signature and a few pictures with her, I was super jealous because I couldn't get in for anything. Julien actually did recognize my friend, though, from both outside of the venue and from actually talking to her during the show.
Jeeze, this is rambly as fuck but I needed to say it. TL:DR Julien's shows live are so fucking awesome, if you ever get the chance to see her, do it, you will most definitely not regret it.
That Red Panda I had a similar experience with Daniela Andrade. I was front and center, stood outside waiting for the doors to open for four hours. I was third in line. Her manager came out a few times and was impressed we were all waiting in what was maybe 40°F weather. He asked if we wanted to meet her and take pictures and I sort of just babbled when she came out and got a few pics with her. I’ll never forget the natural timbre of her voice. It was a bit changed by the mic and all but she had a very good sound guy so the two were pretty identical. But that open sound that just engulfed her surrounding and me being perhaps 7 feet away. It’s something I’ll never forget.
This is the first I hear of her and I can tell I’d have similar experience if I saw her live.
I’m planning on seeing her on September 24th in Minneapolis. Hopefully I will be able to join her onstage since I helped write some songs for her!
@@LAVISHING Wow! Jealous! Have fun!
IM GOING TO SEE HER NEXT WEEKEND!!!!
I'm seeing her today omg!!!! This video is how I heard of her music 🥲
*discovers her 4 years too late*
New album coming out in March!
Not late. Might be early, and a lucky find.
album out tomorrow!!!
Better late than never
Never too late :-)
I fell in love about 20 seconds in.
same
hell yeah
same
I know........me too.
Sometimes I feel like I connect more with the people in the comment sections who appreciate the same music than people i see everyday in real life.
I gave a good fight but gave in by 1:30.
Kudos to the engineer on this session - great work.
Well, yes and no. Those shotgun microphones do solve the problem of cutting out anything coming from the sides, but through the same effect they cut out the reflections of the vocalist's own sound, including the low-frequency "help" those reflections bring due to room effects. This leads to all voices on NPR sounding sort of "body-less" and "dry". But the rest sounds great, I can agree with that.
@@d0nj03 I guess that's why everyone raves about the sound quality of these...
This video started me down a Julien Baker rabbit hole and I'm so happy I did so. 8/29/2020 and i found new great music
hands down the best tiny desk i've seen
holy shit funeral pyre is unreal
+Nick Burnham I nearly applauded at the end of it.
She is actually incredible. She makes you feel such an intense sense of emotion and her voice is so pure. She makes you miss someone you don't know, touch a part of your heart you didn't know was there.
Wow Leo Porter, that was beautifully put! Very nicely sad and I couldn't agree with you more! NS San Diego, CA
+Nancy Scarbrough sorry, I meant said
+Nancy Scarbrough Makes me wish i lived anywhere near America so I could go and see her live! Brisbane, Australia.
I met Julien back in August, she played an amazing show, joked around and told a few stories, I waited around after the show then just as I was told to leave, she came out to meet the fans. I was lucky enough to get my album signed and even a hug! I often come back and watch this performance, it was the first time I’d heard Julien and I haven’t heard anything close since. Her music, and this performance specifically, brings me back to a real complicated time in my life, but not in a bad way. I look back at this performance and think of how much I’ve grown as a person since first discovering her, and I can’t wait to grow more now that I have her music to accompany me. Thank you, Julien.
She writes brilliant guitar riffs.....
Julien opening for Daughter would be fantastic
Would be epic!
Daughter opening up for Julien
+Josiah Shank I was thinking the same thing. I would like to see their personalities together too.
+Josiah Shank I was thinking the same thing. I would like to see their personalities together too.
Same!! I think she'd bring back some of the acoustic spirit that Daughter had in their first albums... I loved "Not to disappear", but I loved them most with just two guitars and thrumming drums, Elena's voice making my heart swell and lulling me to sleep like this girl did now
Holy shit. I feel like I just need to give her a hug or something. This is beautiful and utterly heartwrenching
I’ll say exactly what my dad said about Julien when he first introduced me to her: “Her voice could make me believe in God.”
Amelia Rae your dad is awesome
♥️
I believe!
Yeah that'd a really cool dad
Julien is actually a devout christian lol
I keep on going back to this performance of hers. Her songs and her voice really saved me during the Pandemic. Julien Baker thank you for saving my life.
i finally beat the Tiny Desk to a new musician!
so stoked to see her on here!!
+Sean Lee haha, same here, except I found her from audiotree sessions!
im always down for discovering new sad music ^^
I love her sound. Layers and layers of melancholy reverb and oscillating melodies.
you should check out Dying Elephants then :)
Jeremi L. look at run for cover records, no sleep, or topshelf
Elliott Smith. eventually it stops being sad. I've been listening to him so long that through all of my depression he's the only one who has ever stopped me from killing myself apart from my best friend. simply because I realized that his music was his own healing process, although most might say it never really worked for him.
You are welcome to visit my channel ^^
She seems so diminutive. Yet packs a whole lotta soul in that voice. She is totally adorable
The telecaster is my fav electric guitar. Theres no other instrument that makes that tone and she uses it perfectly
I first caught Julien opening with The National at the Belly Up in Aspen over New Years. I was just completely leveled. And I mean completely. I cried. The last time I cried was holding my small daughter years earlier while watching a Carl Sagan video that just buried me in beauty. We got a chance to talk. I was so moved I think I paid double for her album and asked for her signature and a photo. I think she said "Really?" when I asked to get my photo with her. I'll be seeing her 3 more times this summer and I even managed to book one of the 3 for my own place. :)
she's playing at your house??
u suc:)
man you need to get out of the house more
He probably owns a venue
Max, could be. A lot of people at her level of success still do shows at people's houses. For example, you can find videos of Glen Phillips doing show shows.
this is incredible. that tele is gorgeous.
I've loved Julien since this Tinydesk and she's the reason I followed boygenius. Im excited for her new music but I loved boygenius so much. Best supergroup since The Traveling Wilburys. So grateful for their music. Cant wait to see what the boys have in store.
She has this beautiful, small songs, like little gifts. You could listen to her and let her music warm your heart while rain keeps pouring outside. I'm so thankful that TH-cam recommended this
I'm so grateful to discovered julien and her music
Funeral pyre is the best - I keep finding myself coming back to this video! Thanks!!! :D
i will be there at your funeral
well done creepus
Man, the "X"s on her hands really shows you, she's still just a kid. So much to feel then. So much to endure with the innocent mind. The painful learning that life is harder than you'd thought it would be, that people will let you down harder than you'd ever thought. She articulates the losing of that innocence we all felt at 18 or 20.
You know the X’s also stand for straight edge, right?
FOR THE STRAIGHT EDGE
She's straight edge I guess
those could be just voided club stamps yall
peace
There are a few tiny desk concerts that led me to discover some of my favorite artists. After seeing this I became a huge fan of her and I keep coming back to watch this set 5 years later.
Usually, the people from Tiny Desk Concert will open up with - and keep on with the chattering (50/50 - inane/funny). But here they apparently didn't dare interrupt Ms. Baker... Thank God. Great recording!
Julien Baker rules. Goddamn.
+Hot Pepper Gaming Vernon! damn, I knew you had good tastes. Hot peppers, hotter women.
Hot Pepper Gaming yes, I should marry her, but
Rip
i love rewatching these concerts bc i always find something new to be in awe over. For example, the black X's on her hands bc she wasnt 21 yet. Crazt to me that she was so young and already making such deep amazing music
"Thank you for your courteous laughter."
"Funeral Pyre" is definitely one of Julien's best songs. Can't wait for her next release, which will hopefully have that song on it.
+William Lim I concur - that song really stands out! Hoping for a new record relatively soon. Julien is an amazing musician.
She’s an angel who plays the telecaster in place of a harp.
Always an angel, never a God
Ugh! She is so talented and adorable. How in the world am I just finding out about her music 🤦🏾♂️🙄
welcome to the club! lots of good material from boygenius too
Presence is spotless, song outstanding. guitar work pro level. what a honor to listen to this.
I would die if Julien Baker and Keaton Henson were making music together cause that'd be either the somberest or happiest moment of my life.
Godspeed You, Black Emperor! + Julien Baker would be an instead death for me.
+Bagas Asfriansyah I'm dead anyways, brother :P
Dude I literally just found her but that was seriously my thought too.
it would be both
We can only hope
I've been listening to this for three days straight
I discovered Julien two months ago and honestly, there have NOT been a single day when I’ve not heard her music.
I can feel the melancholy along with her, her music is a journey and I can relate to it so much. I’m just so grateful you exist, Julien.🌸
Oh well, found my comment. Nothing has changed.
These songs are my fav songs, as a guitar player of 25 yrs. ty so much
She's so humble.
The telecaster can do it all...really good accompaniment by Julien.
I love many Tiny Desk Concerts, but this has got to be one of the best
she is amazing ... so sooo nice
According to last.FM I have played her songs 121 times in last 7 days. Last time I was this much addicted to an Artist was Tool (very different in genre though) but she is so amazing. It's so beautiful!
+Salekeen Nayeem good to see a fellow Tool fan (i spammed all their albums on my phone about 5 years ago) appreciate other genres. Besides this I've been listening to modern hip hop all around the world. Music is such an incredible and powerful thing.
I don't believe in the concept of perfect, but I do believe in Julien Baker.
The ambient, melancholic guitar.. Her beautiful, gentle, fragile voice, perfectly landing on every note. I just popped in for a quick listen, and ended up falling in love. NPR never fails to bring me new, amazing artists.
the timbre of her voice is so pure... angelic like white light
Getting a real Pictures of Success vibe with those harmonics.
Wow she made it to NPR, come a long way :D
julien is truly such a special soul.
“Sometimes” hits close to home. It’s one of those, “damn I wish I wrote that.” Kinda things
First time I've heard of her, and I already know she is going to be one of my favourite.
I'm only about a minute and a half into the first song and I can feel my face fill up with emotions.
ok this grew on me pretty fast. now I delight in the sadness of it all.
When I started writing my own songs at 12, I thought that my music and type of voice would be boring and not liked by others.
Now I find Julien Baker and with her how wrong I was. She reminds me of that 12-year-old me..., she's far better obviously, but her voice and feelings that she shows are quite similar to mine.
I'm thankful she's taken that path in music that I was afraid of, the results are stunning and she's incredible.
Where can I listen to your songs?
She has the best voice, it's so unique.