Faye Webster: Tiny Desk Concert

Elle Mannion | January 31, 2025
If you want it, Faye Webster’s Tiny Desk can offer an escape. Featuring her longtime band and a string quartet, Webster guides us through a swooning and sweeping set culled from her quickly growing catalog.

Webster’s Underdressed at the Symphony was inspired by just that: Buying last-minute tickets to the symphony orchestra in her hometown of Atlanta and finding the experience otherworldly. She performs “But Not Kiss” and the title track from that album. Webster is a gentle but captivating performer in this space, at times grooving with her locked-in band. But she also appears to be in a trance of her own, like on the Atlanta Millionaires Club cuts “Jonny” and its spoken-word reprise. The horns heard on those original recordings gave everything a brassy warmth, but here Trey Pollard’s string arrangements enhance this Tiny Desk’s dream-like quality.

SET LIST
“In A Good Way”
“But Not Kiss”
“Underdressed at the Symphony”
“Jonny”
“Jonny (Reprise)”

MUSICIANS
Faye Webster: vocals, guitar
Noor Khan: bass, backing vocals
Matthew Stoessel: guitar, pedal steel
Nick Rosen: piano
Charles Garner: drums, percussion
Ellen Riccio: violin
Danielle Wiebe Burke: viola
Stephanie Barrett: cello
Annie Leeth: violin

TINY DESK TEAM
Producer: Elle Mannion
Director/Editor: Kara Frame
Audio Technical Director: Josh Newell
Host/Series Producer: Bobby Carter
Videographers: Kara Frame, Maia Stern, Joshua Bryant, Sofia Seidel
Audio Engineer: Andie Huether
Production Assistant: Ashley Pointer
Photographer: Estefania Mitre
Tiny Desk Copy Editor: Hazel Cills
Executive Producer: Suraya Mohamed
Series Creators: Bob Boilen, Stephen Thompson
VP, Visuals and Music: Keith Jenkins

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