Butcher Brown: 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. Nikki Birch, April 21, 2021 Butcher Brown takes to a restaurant s rooftop terrace in the band s hometown of Richmond, Va. , for a home concert and sizzles from the first note. The band opens with Sticky July, a tune every bit as catchy as its name implies; think rollerskating with a popsicle under a cloudless sky of blue. When you think you ve figured it out, keyboardist DJ Harrison switches it up, launching into a solo so funky you wonder if it s a new song, that is until Marcus Tennishu Tenney brings us back home with some sweet trumpet. That s the thing about Butcher Brown: are they playing jazz. .. or funk. .. or soul They scoff at the limitations of adjacent genres with th