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Anais Mitchell: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

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Her voice is soft and sweet, her guitar work deft and evocative, but Anaïs Mitchell is a songwriting storyteller first and foremost. Robbed of a gift for melody and poetry, Mitchell would probably (and may yet) write some tremendous novels. Her ambitious recent discography bears out that notion: The 2010 album version of her star-packed folk opera Hadestown recasts Greek legend in America, while this year's Young Man in America turns her thoughts to the pitfalls of modern life, inspired in part by the works of Mitchell's writer father.
Thankfully, as this Tiny Desk Concert in the NPR Music offices demonstrates, Mitchell possesses a warm and ingratiating style to go with her evocative, impeccably crafted lyrics. Singing and playing alongside guitarist and longtime collaborator Michael Chorney, she performs three of Young Man in America's most bracingly beautiful songs with clear-eyed directness that requires no adornment. --STEPHEN THOMPSON
Set List
"Shepherd"
"Young Man In America"
"Tailor"
Credits
Producer: Bob Boilen; Editor: Denise DeBelius; Audio Engineer: Kevin Wait; Videographers: Denise DeBelius, Mito Habe-Evans, Christopher Parks; photo by Lauren Rock/NPR

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@warriorcatskid003 5 лет назад

I’d like like to thank Hadestown for introducing me to a very fantastic musician

@GeoScorpion 4 года назад

Look up the outtakes with Dusty Wright. :D

@delirium341 3 года назад

I'll sign that

@GeoScorpion 3 года назад

Hmm.

@beefstroganoff1774 3 года назад

It's crazy cause now I think I like her music even more than Hadestown, it's so weird 😂😂

@stdev. 2 года назад

So you thank Anaïs Mitchell for introducing herself 💗

@mpgarr 9 лет назад

With all the crap and insanity of this world---it is wonderful that there are people like those featured here on NPR's Tiny Desk Music mini concerts, people who are making simple, elegant, gorgeous and heart felt music. It does give one hope for this crazy world and our species that we have people making this sort of REAL MUSIC.

@MUSIcMaN587 9 лет назад

I wish I could like this comment 1,000 times.

@devinverrette8680 Месяц назад

Very hopeful and inspiring.

@SuperWhatthehuh 7 лет назад

This woman is the real deal and what being singer/songwriter is all about for me. I saw her live about a year ago. She sang a song for my soon to be wife and me, talked to us after the show, and we got a picture with her. Each song is a beautiful piece of poetry with her own style of playing. The genuine article, she is.

@kangier1 10 лет назад

The story in her first song is from her father, Don Mitchell's fable "The Souls of Lambs".

@krupboom 2 года назад

This just never gets old. I've watched 50 times at least.

@sacredgeometry Год назад

Those are rookie numbers you had better work on them. :)

@anahi_naya_ledesma 4 года назад

I hope, in the future, history puts this amazing songwriter on the list of BEST folks musicians of all times. She deserves not only a Tony, but a Grammy and Nobel, and all the praises in the world. Thank you, Anaïs. Thank you for inspiring us with your music, for sharing your art.

@aureas 3 года назад

She's a freaking goddess. She has the genius flowing through her. 🙌🏽🌊✨

@rebeccamari 3 года назад

Didn't the Hadestown album also win a Grammy last year?

@greenangus1 Год назад

“All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.” ― Louis Armstrong

@lewiskirk3125 4 года назад

Hearing Hadestown and Anais Mitchell for the first time today. Mind blown.

@DanFrechette 9 лет назад

This lady just won a lifelong fan.

@chickenofthelord4052 3 года назад

Duo. I'm joining you.

@pratheepanumat6384 2 года назад

สวัสดีครับ

@patthewoodboy Год назад

I introduced a friend to her music , he was hooked , he has dissapeared , last seen 3 years ago 😞

@dstronglax Год назад

Still the best thing on the interweb today - 10 years after. She is so sweet it makes my teeth ache

@govcolin 11 лет назад

that first song is a goddamn masterpiece.

@aureas 3 года назад

I mean... That can be said of many of her songs. 🙏🏽✨ Have you been heard Hadestown yet? The whole album? 🙌🏽

@fede22081 2 года назад

I wrote a bachelor thesis on the tiny desk concerts. If I could give it a soundtrack, it would be this song playing in my headphones while I'm hanging fresh laundry, at midnight in the summer Thanks Bob, thanks Tiny Desk, and NPR

@ska4dragons 10 месяцев назад

Wow, Young Man In America was over 10 years ago. This performance is stunning.

@shmaknapublar Год назад

I'm lucky enough to have been blessed by Anais' presence multiple times when running sound for a small club in Austin many years ago. Talent like hers makes one glad to be alive and fortunate enough to witness it.

@JohnMeshna 11 лет назад

Vermont's gift to the world. I just love this girl. Brings tears to my eyes every time I hear her sing.

@cbat09 4 года назад

Michael Chorney has been around Vermont's music scene for quite a while. Viperhouse was briilliant, too bad it was relatively short-lived.

@c05eden273 11 лет назад

This is one of my favorite tiny desk concerts. She seems so humble (aka normal) and nice. Her writing is amazing, and she is really playing that guitar.

@clintonleonard5187 7 лет назад

Something about that first song makes me ball my eyes out. Even before the end, something about how beautiful and delicate her voice is, combined with the pure Americana of the words she is singing. Just pure crystalized beauty. Brings tears to my eyes.

@mysticmavens811 6 лет назад

I've seen her perform it several times - the first time was in a space the size of a living room and I was three feet from her. It still chokes me up every time. Timeless beauty.

@sheriritarrer 4 года назад

Coming back to this after having just watched the Hadestown Tiny Desk Concert fills me with so much joy and also makes me want to ball my eyes out.

@lmll7232 4 года назад

That's exactly why I'm here too.

@MrFragglerock75 8 лет назад

Heard a quiet little voice singing about a shepherd in the background of a Twitch stream earlier today and now here I am. Feel a need and a desire to hear everything that this special soul has recorded now. That don't happen very often.

@lmll7232 2 года назад

Check out the musical she wrote called Hadestown. Hands down, the best theater experience I have EVER had.

@AlasILoveFolk 11 лет назад

Being a woman myself, its so nice to see another woman getting recognition for her TALENT on an instrument. She plays very well, and her lyrics are very intricate!

@kasandravanell9426 8 лет назад

This woman just blows my doors off! If she were a man writing these songs, she'd BE hailed as THE HEIR TO THE THRONE OF DYLAN. Hope she has all the success she wants and deserves. Tell a friend . . . .

@HypnoticHollywood 5 лет назад

You'd also love Monica Heldal

@goodbyepolarbears172 4 года назад

I'm telling EVERY friend Kasandra. Love the songs on Young Man in America. Tailor is brilliant too.

@JIAbbot 4 года назад

Bullseye, Kasandra. Perfectly stated, and so poignantly true.

@littlelamb2112 3 года назад

No one is heir to Dylan. He is immortal. She gets her own, equally special throne, but no one de-crowns the Jester. (:

@briumphbimbles 2 года назад

@@littlelamb2112 Nah, Anais is better than Dylan ever was even on a good day. Plenty of other people are too.

@LPFan33 6 лет назад

Still the best performance on NPR.

@Mihoshika 3 года назад

The Hadestown performance is pretty nice, too.

@maryannetree8995 2 года назад

So beautiful. Sitting here with tears in ym eyes. Thank goodness for the songsters and story-tellers of this world. They save more lives than they will ever know. x

@Peter-qj7yn 2 года назад

i’ve returned to this tiny desk more than any other of the many, many i’ve seen. it speaks to me as much today as the first time i saw it. truly inspiring.

@robst247 6 лет назад

Anais is a fabulously talented artist. I saw her at Paradiso in Amsterdam and it was one of the best live performances I've ever seen -- in more than four decades of concert-going.

@JulianFernandez 8 лет назад

Came back 4 years later... Still gives me chills. Amazing.

@oliviarachel05 3 года назад

come back. its been 4 years

@JulianFernandez 3 года назад

@@oliviarachel05 Your comment brought me back. Listening right now. Goosebumps still. Thanks so much.

@Curby32582 7 лет назад

Utter. Perfection. Her songwriting, voice, and performances are among the best in the world.

@deejaysexay 9 месяцев назад

No matter where time’s river flows I always comeback more and more ❤

@emisun 9 лет назад

Anais Mitchell is very skilled both as a guitarist and a poet.

@jakubotevrel5058 7 лет назад

The farewell little speech: "Thanks so much for lending us your ears..." What humility for such a legend. Sent here from other place, I am sure, as few people in these comments noticed. Also - have you noticed the comments? Restored my faith in humanity.

@GeoScorpion 3 года назад

I understand what you were trying to say, but 'humility' wasn't the word you were looking for...

@RichardHBlumberg 9 лет назад

"Her voice is soft and sweet, her guitar work deft and evocative, but Anaïs Mitchell is a songwriting storyteller first and foremost. Robbed of a gift for melody and poetry, Mitchell would probably (and may yet) write some tremendous novels. Her ambitious recent discography bears out that notion: The 2010 album version of her star-packed folk opera Hadestown recasts Greek legend in America, while this year's Young Man in America turns her thoughts to the pitfalls of modern life, inspired in part by the works of Mitchell's writer father". "Thankfully, as this Tiny Desk Concert in the NPR Music offices demonstrates, Mitchell possesses a warm and ingratiating style to go with her evocative, impeccably crafted lyrics. Singing and playing alongside guitarist and longtime collaborator Michael Chorney, she performs three of Young Man in America's most bracingly beautiful songs with clear-eyed directness that requires no adornment". --STEPHEN THOMPSON

@ligialewis2182 6 лет назад

What a lovely singer/songwriter/guitarist/storyteller/warm human being . She is charmingly humble as she is talented . This was my first view and I will follow her career . She and Michael played beautifully together . This concert was truly a gift to all who see it. George Lewis, Sr

@altertheskyy1 8 лет назад

if she sang back in the 60's/70's she would have been huuuuuuuge

@jakubotevrel5058 7 лет назад

She´s gonna be yet. No worries .)

@laurelcrown9293 5 лет назад

@@jakubotevrel5058 Good news!

@LiveHigh90 11 лет назад

There's something about the NPR Tiny Desk Concerts that allow musical artists to emote the depths, inner workings, and messages of their songs in a way that no other recording could capture. Every time I listen to someone whose words have the power to evoke a naivety of all that is good in the world, it is because I first heard them here, on NPR.

@yriafehtivan 4 года назад

I'm so glad I got Young Man in America from a sample pack of albums in my then-local record store. It's one of my favorite albums ever.

@mvargashi1 4 года назад

To this day this is one of the most beautiful performances of music/storytelling that I've witnessed. Thank you Anais & NPR.

@MrBrandonBlades 7 месяцев назад

My longest running bucket lister. I LOVE LOVE LOVE HER! I need to see a Live Concert of hers. Pretty Please

@sendwhitesupremaciststothe8618 5 лет назад

Anïas Mitchell never gets enough praise for her art... In 2019 we're appreciating this woman and her genuis or I will kick your shins.

@lizzabbott 5 лет назад

Tony Nominated now ! Yay ! So deserved ! I bet she’ll win, too ! Tune in on June 9, 2019 on CBS !!

@Haven2U 9 лет назад

Beautiful lady and beautiful song. She's playing an old Kalamazoo guitar made by Gibson of Kalamazoo, MI (then) for the department store trade. Such an earthy and unique sound. Love it.

@georgeglen 9 лет назад

Morris Starkey So inspired by her wonderful misic ... I searched and bought a KG-11 myself! What an amazing sounding and playing instrument ... 80 years sure adds some beautiful tone to a guitar! Cheers!

@Haven2U 9 лет назад

George Glen They sure do. I have a couple I picked up before I even knew that much about them. I just liked the sound and knew they were a notch above the average guitar for that trade.

@georgeglen 9 лет назад

Morris Starkey cheers Morris!

@alankcpa 8 лет назад

+Morris Starkey My dad played an old Kalamazoo double F-hole archtop acoustic. I still have it. He was self taught. The top is cracked, but it has such a unique mellow voice. It reminds me of the rare times when he wasn't working himself to death for family. I miss him a lot.

@Haven2U 8 лет назад

+Alan Kumashiro Such a sweet memory. Cherish it. I have an old Kalamazoo. I was inspired by Anias to get it out, clean it up and play it for a while. My old fingers, accustomed to my other guitars and a softer fretting, stumbled a little, but the sound is...sweet.

@grandpianist 2 года назад

I just watch u for the fist time on Saturday morning news. Wow. Another long standing musician that the main media and now social media has opened up to me. I hope to see u live ine day....your new faithful fan....Robert zeligson. Thanks for having the courage to do what u do!

@faucetsrunning Год назад

Can we talk about how Shepherd is a lyrical masterpiece?

@joanwendt2028 Год назад

as is bright star. O. M. G.

@NewWorldOrgone 10 лет назад

My god, wish when I found artists like this that I automatically knew all of their songs that I liked. Add Anais to the list of artists I need to explore more. For now Add to: Playlist.

@bobhasnewtacos 10 лет назад

***** dude, there is literally more music available than you can possibly listen to.

@fridgemagnet 10 лет назад

***** Tosh!! You've fallen into the age old trap of thinking you can define art, no one can, it's totally subjective. If that's what you look for in music then fine, but that's just your opinion. Music affects and touches people in as many ways as there are people to hear it. peace.

@craigthomable 9 лет назад

What?! You need to "automatically know all of the her songs that you like"? Get a grip. You can't have it all at once. You got Modern Life Disease. Don't over-complicate. All her records are great. Buy them or go to Spotify and listen to them.

@JumpinJohnny0 8 лет назад

Getting psyched up to go see her again. This time at the Stone Church in Newmarket, NH. I don't care what she sings. Her songwriting and storytelling skills are awsome. These three choice songs from "Young Man" are fine examples. I was impressed at Langdon Stree Cafe. Still listening intently 8 years later.

@devinverrette8680 Месяц назад

This tiny desk and lots of anais' work give me the frissons and remind me time and again how devastating, hopeful, and beautiful existence can be. grateful to be here.

@markstevens4010 9 лет назад

what a find...wow. Brilliant lyrics, and musically enchanting...a true gem.

@huyked Год назад

My god, this is the first time I've heard of her. First song in and I'm in love with her sound and storytelling. Amazing.

@etph1997 7 лет назад

I'm in awe... Young Man In America is truly magnificent !!!

@thewarthog7438 2 года назад

One of the best musicians alive today. Respected by so many awesome artists. She’s part of Bonnylight Horseman another awesome band.

@potato.pancake 5 лет назад

her voice calms me so much... there’s just something about it that’s so soothing

@GauvinK 8 лет назад

Had the pleasure to hearing Anais open for Milk Carton Kids in Toronto. What an amazing singer/ song writer & poet!! Can't wait to pick up her albums.

@joshgarbemusic 8 лет назад

I was there too! Great night overall. MCK were hilarious.

@PhilipBowenMusic 8 лет назад

+Kyle Gauvin Saw them in Ann Arbor last night. She was fabulous

@wtfisthis10123 8 лет назад

I watched her open up for them last night in Chicago. An absolute pleasure. She sounds even better in person.

@ashleydenomme9946 8 лет назад

+Philbow55 I was at the Ann Arbor show too! I now own 4 Anais Mitchell albums. She is just phenomenal. Young Man in America is one of the most beautiful albums I've heard.

@PhilipBowenMusic 8 лет назад

+Ashley Denomme it was such a good show! I really like the Clyde Waters song from one of her other albums as well. I really wish she'd recorded her Bob Dylan cover on one of those albums.

@jipes 4 года назад

THis first song breaks my heart each time I ear Anais singing it. She's such a huge talent and a wonderful songwriter

@abarton1978 11 лет назад

"Hymns for the Exiled" and "The Brightness" are both brilliant albums.

@danbellis1624 7 лет назад

Last night I was listening to my local radio channel that sometimes streams NPR, and there was a live recording of Anaïs Mitchell singing Al Helwa Di. Immediately, I was captivated. What a wonderful sound to find!

@edenclark1928 8 лет назад

A very moving song, which was sung by a beautiful voice.

@my_girl_seraphine5294 3 года назад

I like listening to this whenever theres a storm, it makes me feel less afraid

@jesscarol929 4 года назад

I loved watching this so much. Anaïs Mitchell is truly so talented in her music and songwriting. ❤🎵😍🎶

@maartenaalsmeer 6 лет назад

Anais was opening for Josh Ritter in Amsterdam in 2017. I never heard of her but she blew me away with her songs. Amazing :-)

@adrienneledoux9037 6 лет назад

I've listened to her music for almost 2 years now, but this is the first time I've watched her perform. I've gotta say, I think I'm in love !

@marctucciaronemusic7738 8 лет назад

This performance is just other - worldly !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@DrummerBoyJason 11 лет назад

Folk music that sounds like folk music, glad there are still people making it.

@danthebeachman 4 года назад

Terrific artist,composer,poet,and playwright.....in my opinion!!

@susansharp3899 10 лет назад

Saw anais last year in Sheffield and was blown away by her tender gift for song...a truly amazing performer.I can't wait to see her in Nottingham next week!

@barefootcarefully9915 6 лет назад

feel so grateful that this AWESOME performance was recorded and shared, love every moment of her songs, deep, chilling, beautiful soul food thank you,

@klinker171 10 лет назад

Just got back for seeing her live with Patty Griffin, if you get the chance go. Could have played another 45 minutes that voice, that playing is GOLDEN. Thank you Anais.

@EmergencyChannel 10 лет назад

"And the shepherd's work is never done..." hits home with those of us that work the dirt and tend to our herds. Life may hit us hard, but our work is never done...

@krisptaco 6 лет назад

Shrek ... I took it to mean that he killed himself with the cleaver. That's why his work was never done.

@tkikitp 6 лет назад

That's what I was thinking!

@sacredgeometry 5 лет назад

@@krisptaco I am pretty certain that that isn't what it meant. That's not as sad nor as meaningful as what the literal interpretation and the general implication of him living on are.

@CalmBlue 5 лет назад

@@krisptaco There's a sort of storied history to the lives of farmers and how they're romanticised. The idea is that they're building something to provide for their family that they can pass on to their children. His work will never be done because the end goal of his work no longer exists.

@goodbyepolarbears172 4 года назад

That was my interpretation too@@CalmBlue. His work was his family. His whole purpose. I'm not too proud to say I get a certain degree of 'wet eye' each time I hear this song.

@keiradickson2354 5 лет назад

her sound just fills up a room, so warm and pleasant. wow i love her

@mitchellpalermo 10 лет назад

The first song is so gorgeous. It haunts you and also makes you hate it.

@2wayplebney 11 лет назад

In terms of songwriting this young lady is right up there with Richard Thompson and her namesake Joni.

@shnootch 2 года назад

she's writing at a level up there with RT's best (and he was a younger man then. Still love him, ofcourse). I imagine when she opened for him he must've been pretty knocked out

@SummerSunShines 4 года назад

I came because of Hadestown but when the video started, I recognised the Shepard... I used to listen to it when I was younger, and its a song flooded with so much emotion already so plus the nostalgia...

@t-manderback6725 3 года назад

I've heard this probably ten times the past week, SO DARN GOOOOOD!

@leafnlore2712 2 года назад

My first time hearing Anais. She definitely draws you in with her storytelling. Wow.

@rider132 11 лет назад

I heard a cut from her "childs ballads" release that is due in March, "Sir Patrick Spens" while traveling through the Boston area. What a beautiful, haunting piece. I had to FDA a google search and finally found who the artist was. Here she is. I' can't wait for the release.

@johnc5160 2 года назад

Look for the videos of the songs she recorded with Jefferson Hamer, and Bonny Light Horseman.

@EricMichaelManuel 10 лет назад

A lovely performance. Not sure if it is only because I found this music in this form but I think Young Man In America is much better in an acoustic format. It captures the soul of exactly that, a young man in America. Thanks for the lovely stories

@chickenmonger123 3 года назад

And it was in those years I learned of sorrow. Of pain endured by the living, regarding what was lost. Of the ache of bearing life, so that those who don’t deserve to suffer might endure until the grave comes, or the light returns. It isn’t for pity, or loathing we sorrow and endure. It is for the loss of good, and it only makes what is good sweeter in contrast. So for the sweetness of good lives. A toast. -A Young Mans Resolve;

@dewardkb 11 лет назад

No words can describe his. It is fabulous beyond measure.

@rscottenglish 7 лет назад

She is AWESOME...shades of Pentangle...poetica

@tmudd24 8 лет назад

i listen to this woman while cycling here in KY. she has something, i don't know what, but its defiantly something.

@PotatoIsNotCute 5 лет назад

How the hell does she not sob singing Shepherd? Every time I hear it I'm already choking up at the first line.

@TimPrendergast 7 лет назад

the guitar work on these songs is gorgeous...

@roseelliott2728 3 года назад

I just found her from Big Red Machine❤️

@cormacmacdonncha6244 10 лет назад

Fantastic lyrics and a sweet, chilling voice ... really enjoyable to listen to. Come to lreland.

@muralmarshall5044 4 года назад

Sheppard should have made her a Tiny Desk winner

@kreisimkreis 10 лет назад

the shepherd made me cry

@piepersplaying 3 года назад

Many of her songs have made me cry.

@bearitf 11 лет назад

I saw her live last night. SHe opened for The Punch Brothers. She was absolutely amazing. And yes she is as beautiful as her voice is . :)

@katherinemeichel 8 лет назад

Lovely heart flowing voice. Beautiful Songs

@MuckyPuddleDuckling 8 лет назад

I love Anais - in case this helps anyone, the second song is introduced as Young Man In America, but is in fact Wilderland. Young Man In America starts at 7:34 :)

@rtaskyy 11 лет назад

thanks NPR! anais is one of my fav artists. love all her older stuff as well

@FreeRivers85 3 года назад

I cried watching this.

@nicolafigini784 4 года назад

This is beautiful beyond description.

@lenderpro 11 лет назад

A young woman songwriter at its best in a long time. Thank you, Anais.

@owenprice4072 9 лет назад

Oh god, I think that Shepherd song is the saddest thing I've ever heard.

@Snikrepnai 6 лет назад

Owen Price, one time is just got to me. Must have had something stressful going on, and this song just slaughtered me.

@joekirklin 3 года назад

This is twice as sad as the pony sinking in the swamp in the Never Ending Story. I cry at that one every time. I weep by the end of this song.

@elevenkrause 11 лет назад

To me, Anais' music is always beautiful, always spiritual.

@annanas9684 10 лет назад

please come to Amsterdam, Anais! I love this music and these lyrics and this voice...

@poorjudjement 6 лет назад

The Shepard song! Only song I ever wanted to learn to play it exactly as the artist/Anais Mitchell plays it!

@shnootch 7 лет назад

check out Thousands, out of Seattle. In the ballpark- rich guitar interplay and subtle musicality, fine nuanced vocals and words...

@shnootch 7 лет назад

so incredible!

@craigmunger1343 10 лет назад

love the poetry can't wait to see her live

@Feedurehed 11 лет назад

Her songs are from a different age, wonderful!

@accuser_of_the_brethren7816 5 лет назад

The last song called like "Tailor" or along those lines has been giving me goosebumps/happy tears for like 6 years now. I learned it but it doesn't sound the same without 2 guitars at all. Plus on the second verse when she does that vocal step down like 4 chords its amazing. I'd totally marry her just so we could write music and I could hear her sing all day lol

@patrickbrownson1 2 месяца назад

DAG, what a brilliant woman. That gorgeously idiosyncratic sense of melody & composition, the unparalleled craftsmanship of her lyrics- who else do we have that’s writing on this level? I can name John K. Samson & Josh Ritter and before I start listing dead folks.