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 #tinydesk #nprmusic #fayewebster