Alana Springsteen: Tiny Desk Concert

Robin Hilton | August 5, 2024
We first started talking with Alana Springsteen about a Tiny Desk concert more than a year ago, back when she began releasing the three EPs that would make up her stunning debut album Twenty Something. By the time we finally got her in the office, she showed up ready to make it count, with a carefully arranged setlist she delivered in an impossible-to-miss, bright red, leather suit, backed by an incredible band.

Springsteen’s set featured multiple surprises, including a version of the Tiësto song “Hot Honey” (a track she guested on when Tiësto released it last month). She also performed a brand new song we’re premiering called “feels good,” a twisted tale about flirting with death, going to extremes and self-sabotage.

Springsteen also included a slow-burning version of “ghost in my guitar,” swapping the electric guitar performed by Chris Stapleton on her album for a cello, before closing with a stripped-down version of the title cut to Twenty Something, a deeply moving coming-of-age song that left a lot of us at the office in tears.

SET LIST
“ghost in my guitar”
“Hot Honey”
“feels good”
“twenty something”

MUSICIANS
Alana Springsteen: lead vocals, acoustic guitar, piano
Alec Parrish: drums, vocals
Josh Beatty: lead guitar, acoustic guitar
Gideon Klein: steel guitar, cello
Daniel Cooper: piano, guitar, vocals

TINY DESK TEAM
Producer: Robin Hilton
Director/Editor: Kara Frame
Audio Technical Director: Neil Tevault
Host/Series Producer: Bobby Carter
Videographers: Kara Frame, Maia Stern, Joshua Bryant, Grace Raver
Audio Engineer: Valentina Rodriguez Sanchez
Production Assistant: Ashley Pointer
Photographer: Sofia Seidel
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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