Courtney Marie Andrews: Tiny Desk ( Home) Concert

The Tiny Desk is working from home for the foreseeable future. Introducing NPR Music s Tiny Desk (home) concerts, bringing you performances from across the country and the world. It s the same spirit strippeddown sets, an intimate setting just a different space. Bob Boilen, August 20, 2020 In a sunlit room in Nashville, Courtney Marie Andrews sings about the fear of love. I ve grown cautious, I ve grown up, I m a skeptic of love, Don t wanna lose what I might Yet, Burlap String is also a song about how love s memory lingers, and how the mind rekindles its beauty. Complex emotions are a hallmark of Courtney Marie Andrews s music over these past 10 years, and she s still just 29. In an intimate setting such as this, her voice is also her strength. You can hear it in her 2019 Tiny Desk Concert and hear the way her pleasing vibrato intertwines with Mat Davidson s Twain) pedal steel guitar. Bassist Paul Defiglia also re