Big NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

March 5, 2018, Rodney Carmichael Grandmothers never truly die. Especially not when they bear as much influence on your life as Big grandmother has on his. The Mississippi spitter has kept her spirit alive through his music since his breakout mixtape, Wuz Here, which he released the same year she passed in 2010. So it only makes sense that he would bring her with him for his Tiny Desk concert. Halfway through his threesong set at NPR Music headquarters, stops to pull out an oldschool tape recorder the same one his grandmother would use to record him singing and reciting poetry as a child. I have to feel like my grandmother was my first mix engineer, he says before pressing play to reveal he and his brother as kids singing a duet of R B crooner Donell Jones 1999 slow burner, Where I Wanna It s a sublime interlude one that resonated so strongly with that he had to start his last song, Bury Me In Gold, over to catch the proper beat. I m super emotiona