Frank Turner: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

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Frank Turner writes folk songs that harness the fury of punk and the majesty of Springsteenian rock 'n' roll. But more than anything else, his music is playful: There's conversational wit and bite to Turner's music, even as he's bellowing to the back rows. His songs lose little when you strip away electric instruments and leave the entertainment value to a single skinny, tattooed guy with an acoustic guitar.
For his Tiny Desk close-up, the U.K. singer-songwriter isn't actually alone - he brings along the pianist in his band The Sleeping Souls, Matt Nasir, who joins in on mandolin - but Turner still does plenty to convey the bawdy rowdiness of a full band on his own. Opening with the terrifically anthemic, rehab-themed first single from his new album Tape Deck Heart (sample line: "On the first night we met, you said, 'Well, darling, let's make a deal/If anybody ever asks us, let's just tell them that we met in jail'"), Turner shines in what may well be the most brightly lit performance space he's ever graced. --STEPHEN THOMPSON
Set List
"Recovery"
"The Way I Tend To Be"
"Photosynthesis"
Credits
Producer: Stephen Thompson
Editor: Denise DeBelius
Audio Engineer: Kevin Wait
Videographers: Parker Miles Blohm, Denise DeBelius, Gabriella Garcia-Pardo

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29 сен 2024

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@gracehenry3393 Год назад

This was the first tiny desk concert I ever watched- convinced to give it a watch by my dad. 10 years later it still brings a huge smile to my face and photosynthesis and recovery are still on my most played playlist!

@Donkeykong7771 11 лет назад

The energy is just incredible, he looks like he's having so much damn fun up there

@arondllr2 11 лет назад

That crowd is rowdy. They need to contain themselves.

@guitarist710 11 лет назад

awesome. breath of fresh air from all this depressing music.

@Will-wp2cp 8 лет назад

Thumbs up simply because they are jamming a mandolin.

@joemurray2523 10 лет назад

Does anyone know where I could get the mandolin chords for these songs? :)

@Racewayelko 10 лет назад

thesleepingsouls.com/music.php?mu_id=21 And if you don't trust links from random people (I understand) Google The sleeping souls (his band) the first result (thesleepingsouls.com) then under the music tab is mandolin with tabs to Losing days and the way I tend to be. Good luck and tell me how it goes!! :)

@ethandraught6435 3 года назад

To me, Frank is my generation's Bob Dylan. I can't help but listen, re-listen, and then reflect. His lyrics resonate and he has a natural knack for melody. "But you stood apart in my callous heart and here's what I learned: Love is about the changes you make and not just three small words." Good lord.

@user-vn8jd8yb4o 2 года назад

He's nowhere near Bob Dylan. Let's be serious.

@ethandraught6435 2 года назад

@@user-vn8jd8yb4o I did not say he was Bob Dylan, I said he was my generations version of a sea change in lyrics and melody. He might be one of the hardest working musicians currently doing it. The man does 50 state tours in 50 days. No, he is not as acclaimed as Dylan, that wasn't the point.

@jewdayradio 2 года назад

@@user-vn8jd8yb4o he's better than Bob Dylan

@deathwish6778 2 года назад

He’s bob dylan on steroids x’s 10

@deathwish6778 2 года назад

@@user-vn8jd8yb4o seriously. He is

@symbols_69 3 года назад

we need a 2021 concert from frank. with all his new albums it’ll be amazing

@dizzytheoogle1665 3 года назад

Preaching to the choir bruv Frank please make America great again

@martymankin 2 года назад

Caught him with the counting crows in DC fantastic simply fantastic

@symbols_69 2 года назад

@@martymankin duuuuude i was at the charlotte show. having it just him and matt was really cool. full acoustic set

@virtualk28 2 года назад

I've been following Frank for over 10 years and have NEVER seen a live show. I finally told my wife that we're flying to Dublin to see my first show - I didn't want to wait for a US tour, and I don't want to keel-over and die without seeing this genius in person.

@Dakkadez 9 лет назад

I'm growing to rely on Tiny Desk to reveal music to me that hits home, and makes me want to pick up that old guitar I laid down to start my family. Brilliant stuff.

@benschebella673 7 лет назад

did you pick it up?

@justinx590 4 года назад

I'd love to hear you play (:

@8-bitcentral31 2 года назад

Watching this after hearing that Frank just got his first no1 album in 2022 with his 9th album. About bloody time. Pure genius.

@MrJal67 3 года назад

Photosynthesis is the greatest song EVER live...in show he loses his mind, as does the crowd. So much fun to see and dance to!

@velezpedro 8 лет назад

HOLY COW. That's an amazing mandolin solo right there. Specially for someone who plays only for 6 months O__O

@ArnaudFTW 8 лет назад

That is not a man who's been playing stringed instruments for 6 months though ahah, I bet he knows his way around the guitar. Still very impressive nonetheless.

@velezpedro 8 лет назад

Yeah, he's a very accomplished guitar player, but its still impressive to see someone play a new instrument that well in such a small amount of time :D

@soggymobflip 7 лет назад

Pedro Velez yeah, he picked it up for Frank for this album.

@philaeew4866 7 лет назад

Yeah, although Matt's the piano player in the Sleeping Souls, the guitar is actually his main (first?) instrument. However, the mandolin isn't tuned like a guitar at all, so yes, it is indeed impressive!

@Goof4 Год назад

A mandolin is tuned gdae whereas a guitar is EADGbe. It is just the top four reversed

@jordanweimer788 8 лет назад

Frank Turner: I won't sit down. I won't shut up. And most of all I will not grow up. Cut to: Audience of NPR employees and assorted Librarian types quietly singing; the only reason they aren't mouthing the words is that they're too polite to defy a direct order to really sing the finale. After the concert work resumes as normal, and a man holds in a fart for several hours.

@albertmctorre4789 8 лет назад

I feel sorry for the sequestrated fart :-(

@gerardocamilo4037 8 лет назад

I know. It seems they all took a shot of laxative before the show.

@lilredccc 8 лет назад

Hey, I'm a librarian and I live for being in the pit at Frank Turner gigs. \m/ (Altho this audience IS especially hilarious.)

@jordanweimer788 8 лет назад

That's how punks become adults. They become librarians. \m/

@lilredccc 8 лет назад

Jordan Weimer I did it in reverse then - I didn't find punk until after I'd been a librarian. Does that mean I'm aging backwards? :-)

@scottgipson6437 10 лет назад

Love these NPR Tiny Desk Concerts. I highly recommend Frank Turner's TAPE DECK HEART album.

@jmpayette85 5 лет назад

Still his best in my humble opinion.

@Lyuze 4 года назад

@@jmpayette85 agreed

@micahldixon 7 лет назад

Good god. How have I not heard of Frank Turner before?...I am obsessed.

@barbaraautrey7363 6 лет назад

Micah you need to see him live! He is incredible!!

@Zthreve 5 лет назад

My feeling exactly.

@boweewowee 4 года назад

Best Live show I have ever seen....and I have seen a lot of them.

@soulieonashoestring9578 4 года назад

He's always been amazing, from his days as frontman of Million Dead to now! I saw him on his first UK solo tour, upstairs in a pub in Cambridge, there were about 10 people there!

@Darragh1 4 года назад

Haha... because you sit and listen to Daily Mix 2 on Spotify all day haha. Discovered him when preparing to do to Download in 2011. He is sick. Really good feeling music. A slight genius too ha.

@ianepps5327 10 лет назад

I've seen Frank twice in America and both times it was transcendent. Dude definitely knows how to work a crowd.

@ANTIV15T 8 лет назад

The presence these two have in a room full of people that all seem tired or just shy and confused is so overwhelming. Pure energy.

@Bimagragaireacht 7 лет назад

ANTI V15T my god I expected a massive crowd too

@1omgz1 9 лет назад

Lmao i could not picture a more awkward crowd

@keepcalmycarryon 9 лет назад

+1omgz1 I could. And I have.

@henrylewis1454 8 лет назад

+Brighton DeChienne I've been part of one.

@keepcalmycarryon 8 лет назад

Condolences & kudos to you, +henry lewis (the future of man kind) _Good Day?_

@jeremyapplegate4868 4 года назад

I came here for Frank Turner. I stayed for the mandolin solo.

@wigster25 4 года назад

I've seen Frank about 7 times and have said this before..."I will always go back and see Frank Turner" he is that good live! Probably some of the best gigs and nights out I've had!

@juliahenry5547 3 года назад

We’ve seen him 4 times and they are hands down my favorite shows! Can’t wait to see him again!

@Pelleradjilly 9 лет назад

Huh... 28 people accidentally hit the thumbs down. Better aim next time!

@LNClubsTheaters 9 лет назад

+Pelleradjilly Agreed!

@kmacdizzle 10 лет назад

show number 1500 was in front of maybe 100 people at a coffee shop in midtown Detroit and it was a fucking amazing little acoustic set

@CammojoDragon97 7 лет назад

The Way I Tend To Be really REALLY shines in this performance, I don't know what it is, maybe the more intimate setting just pushes it that little further, but it really resonated with me in a way it hadn't before

@roblinton1261 7 месяцев назад

Hard to imagine putting so much energy into a black-hole-of-enthusiasm crowd like this! Today's version would be everyone looking down at their phones while Frank' belting out "and I won't sit down, shut up or most of all grow up!". Like water dripping on collective stones but I bet everyone of those wallflowers will remember the day Frankie stopped by NPR and made them shout out (a little!)

@xkbix 8 лет назад

This crowd is painful to watch yet Frank manages to shout himself hoarse at the end. Some spirit!

@RevanTheSavage 7 лет назад

J.W. he has always stated whether he plays for one person or an arena full of people he always gives his all

@mattputnam5652 5 лет назад

Meh - they're in their workplace in the middle of the day. I thought they were enjoying themselves.

@andrewrutledgemusic9540 8 лет назад

I now officially LOVE Frank Turner. Amazing set, personality, and energy.

@Kadin_Bergen 11 лет назад

I had the biggest, dorkiest smile on my face during this entire video. I'm gonna have to check out this guys music, because this was awesome.

@1981AdamGs 2 года назад

I can't believe this was 8 years ago. This is hands the best Tiny Desk Concert.

@rxxdoc 10 лет назад

OMG music is back.

@ThePrincepiggy Год назад

I just keep rewatching this several times a week

@e1gengrau___ Год назад

Same, currently listening on lunchbreak at work

@thevolkskrant 10 лет назад

A flowering of the vocal genius he showed back when he was in Million Dead.

@christmasunicorn. 2 года назад

jesus, the man can sing

@samgorrie 11 лет назад

Sorry that wasn't supposed to be a comment, I thought it was the search bar. Haha. I just bought a mandolin, thanks to Matt, Franks mandolinist there. Met him at a radio concert thing in vegas, he recommended a specific one for beginners, the Gretcsh New Yorker. I got it and now I want to learn how to play this song!

@max_mittler 2 года назад

I saw Frank at SXSW in austin and felt so bad because the crowd wasn't super respectful but it was honestly one of the best shows at the whole festival. What an amazing songwriter and powerful performer

@kurtduvel4345 9 лет назад

Never thought much of the mandolin, but it sounds stunning on 'The Way I Tend To Be'. It has this resonance that almost sounds like it's plugged in.

@PurpleCanuck 8 лет назад

+Kurt Duvel Mandolin is fantastic in the right places! It can just be a bit overpowering sometimes, I'd say they nailed it in this performance though

@justanotherhopeless 6 лет назад

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-jFycqnOpifQ.html have fun :) I've probably watched this one 100 times

@TheNightwatchman 10 лет назад

Frank is the best. I've seen him live three times now, and he always puts on a great show.

@dustycurrie7008 11 лет назад

The man is pure genius!

@spaghettiyeti6408 10 лет назад

The strange thing is that my old science teacher used to open the lessons with 'Sit down and shut up', so Photosynthesis is quite an accurate song for me (and also brilliant) :)

@pTheMonkeyKingq 9 лет назад

love his voice, his accomplice resembles joe rogan, lol, frank also has the cutest dimples, they're in their most prominent state around the 4:40 mark

@JasonWaltonGoPanthers 9 лет назад

Oh my god, that was FUCKING awesome!

@lukeclark7907 2 года назад

Best tiny desk ever!

@danielrushton 8 лет назад

What an amazing profile performance! I love it :)

@masterallcock 10 лет назад

THAT MANDOLIN SOLO WAS INCREDIBLE!

@CaitlinSmith-c6k Год назад

Look how empty his arms are of tattoos. I love Frank - sooo much.

@partycountry743 11 лет назад

Love the guitar/mandolin combo!!

@KayleighMorganMusic 10 лет назад

oh my god those people at the end were NOT enthused haha. the lucky bastards should have put some effort in. ungrateful much!

@AdamShameimusic 10 лет назад

no kidding eh ! i was thinking the same thing :P

@erickleinwolterink3524 10 лет назад

Woohoo, this was great! I'm just sorry I was in my apartment and unable to bellow along for fear of having my neighbors call animal control.

@avalonperez3806 5 лет назад

FRANK TURNER saved me from weeping into my notebook of depressing contemporary poetry once more. Thanks, Frank.

@jameshickey100 Год назад

Frank turner live in my hometown

@AprilSampsonNS 11 лет назад

Wish we had that kind of lunch time entertainment in my workplace.

@drewblood 2 года назад

This is the roughest Tiny Desk audience I've seen so far. Frank sang his heart out to a dead room.

@DanMcShea 6 лет назад

I listen to so much talk radio lately that music has been lacking in my life. Putting on Frank Turner for the first time since I saw him a year ago in Boston literally made me tear up. This guy puts everything into his music. Love it!

@loucat2779 3 года назад

whip it out our Matthew!!

@WGBHMusic 11 лет назад

Incredible audio recording. Love the acoustic guitar + mandolin combo. Suits FT really well.

@switchingtime 9 лет назад

I haven't had that much fun just watching somebody in a long damn time. Frank Turner, you are always on-point.

@shruggzdastr8-facedclown 3 года назад

I dunno bout anyone else, but I'd love a solo album of Matthew playing instrumentals on his mandolin!!!

@SmittenKitten. 4 года назад

So I've been listening to this guy for a long while now, purposefully not looking up what he looks like (not sure why) and I finally broke down and have come here. He looks much different than I'd imagined all this time... In the best ways...

@bigtardoin4007 11 лет назад

I'm a new fan of Frank Turner. I just watched them on Guitar Center Sessions and I immediately have all of his songs locked in my head. He's a very talented songwriter/performer.

@Jnash85 6 лет назад

Saw Frank open for Jason Isbell last year. I had never heard of him prior to that. I was completely won over after his set.

@braunihawk 2 года назад

Exactly all my three favourite songs, that i´m learning at the moment, cause they fit soooo much in my situation of life. if im gonna listen to this, i feel really understood by frank turne whats drives me.

@GenXJames 2 года назад

His talent makes him hotter than he already is

@TojoFreestyles 11 лет назад

had such a shite day at work... first thing I did after I got home was crack a cold one and watch this

@LIamaLlama554 5 лет назад

TojoFreestyles well played

@lookattheclouds 3 года назад

s/o to the one girl thats super happy to sing with them

@joex-mn4we 4 года назад

They have to do another one with No Man’s Land.

@fayedatfangirl2330 4 года назад

Having a quarantine dance party, all invited. Just came from Gaslight Anthem. Bopped over here.where should we go next?

@mollyhobson8915 4 года назад

Faye datfangirl I ended up at Tim Barry

@TimInNashville 6 лет назад

Frank is the man. Finally get to see him live in a few days. Cannot wait.

@mw7857 3 года назад

Thank you for existing 😊❣️

@boweewowee 4 года назад

Thank you Mathew and Frank for making music that matters, I won't sit down...I won't shut up.

@rednaxela97 11 лет назад

Tried to play recovery on my guitar like he does. Took a look at the chords and played it. Thought it was pretty good. Listened to him playing it again. However, guess I have to fucking keep on learning, he plays the guitar like a god! Not to mention his awesome voice and everything.

@paulrhyslloyd1 5 лет назад

This performance was wasted on this audience, they should of helped Frank rock photosynthesis even on an acoustic in office show. Frank always seems to put on a brilliant show.

@coldknee 8 лет назад

Awesome Job to Frank Turner to be able to play to that crowd with such Energy. Very Cool.

@jonesal3 9 лет назад

That is some impressive mandolin playing, given that he's only been playing 6 months in this video. Holy cow!

@robertdebarge276 9 лет назад

I'm sure he could rip a guitar beforehand, nobody has that talent without having experience with stringed instruments.

@cathallynch8269 9 лет назад

Robert DeBarge Yeah, he's also a pianist, so musical talent knowledge and experience can be transferred between instruments, too.

@LNClubsTheaters 9 лет назад

+jonesal3 Very Impressive!!

@juliusgrisette 10 лет назад

Wow, this guy is great! Love the breedlove mandolin too.

@LinauLee 11 лет назад

Frank has something special...new fan here!

@edens6thday 10 лет назад

I sang along!! Frank Turner and Matt Nasir -- awesome and pure performance. Thank you NPR for bringing these guys in. LOVE love love!

@IViewMusic 9 лет назад

9:07 That's how I felt at that point and would have loved backing this sort of punk folk with that unhinged joy on mandolin.

@IViewMusic 9 лет назад

And he's good!

@visualkidd 3 года назад

Man, those high notes hit every time, this is just the best! So much skill and talent from these two, that mandolin rips, love this!

@MAPresentsOfficial 10 лет назад

Another awesome performance by Frank Turner, gotta love Frankie T!

@AnthonyBowman 6 лет назад

FTHC FOREVER

@elrosgaming 3 года назад

2020 SZ

@benjamincasey6617 7 лет назад

50 people have no taste

@samgorrie 11 лет назад

Mandolin strum

@ThirdEyeBlindApologist Год назад

Shockingly good at mandolin for 6 months 😅

@dustycurrie7008 11 лет назад

The man is pure genius!

@codyphilpot4736 11 лет назад

I now can't stop listening to Frank. Well crap.

@mtnbkr2011 11 лет назад

Been a fan of Frank Turner for a while! Thanks NPR for this fantastic session!

@scottknowsnothing2153 8 лет назад

Are you playing the same chords as frank on the guitar but the mandolin versions or are changing some of the chords due to them not sounding as good on the mandolin?

@PatFreakinRickTV 11 лет назад

These guys are like legit entertainers. I enjoyed this.

@RPM25 9 лет назад

Great show at the Horseshoe last night!!!!!

@AndyOverby 11 лет назад

Amazing performance! Had me singing along too!

@Orf2008 9 лет назад

So amazing. That audience didn't deserve him. Bunch of dilettante corporate drones. Come to Portland, OR, Frank!

@gregmoore3007 7 лет назад

Jan 31, 2017. Wonder Ballroom.

@renekitty2 7 лет назад

Do you know how blessed we are to have this NPR with Matt on the mandolin?? DO you know how good this is with the mandolin??? It's incredible, if you didn't know. We are very very blessed.

@urzishra14 3 года назад

"Take a nip of whiskey" - cut to people who literally look like they would get kicked out of every bar in the world.

@Seggy75 2 года назад

Anyone know what the brand of that mandolin is? It’s lovely looking and sounds great.

@JedMcConkey 9 лет назад

Fella's! You are Great!! Infectious beautiful friendly welcoming vibe! Great tunes and I really enjoyed my time here. Peace, light and Much Love to you both.

@DaveJMcGarry 6 лет назад

@00:01 Recovery @5:05 The Way I Tend To Be @8:44 Photosynthesis

@tranquilized13 9 месяцев назад

I just don't even know how you can't have fun watching Frank Turner play, best live show I've ever seen.

@nofxniko 6 месяцев назад

best mandolin solo evah

@fredymendez855 3 года назад

I saw him last week but he was the opener and it was only him and another person.. basically like this npr segment as there were no drums etc I hope to see him with a full band.