NaN/100 votes#1 - Laura Gibson
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 4/22/2008
Laura Gibson works through a handful of tenderhearted songs: two of them unreleased and two of them from her full-length debut, If You Come to Greet Me.
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NaN/100 votes#2 - Vic Chesnutt
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 6/5/2008
When Athens, Ga., songwriter Vic Chesnutt was on tour in support of his album, “North Star Deserter,” he stopped by NPR to perform live at All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen's desk. Chesnutt played five songs, including two entirely new ones.
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NaN/100 votes#3 - Sam Phillips
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 6/25/2008
The music of Sam Phillips unfolds like perfect, miniature pop dramas. Of all her incarnations as a performer — first as a Christian singer, then as a pop singer — the current Sam Phillips is one of the most alluring. Phillips performs four songs from “Don't Do Anything.”
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NaN/100 votes#4 - Sera Cahoone
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 7/10/2008
Sera Cahoone got her start playing drums for a few widely adored bands in the Pacific Northwest, most notably Band of Horses and the spell-checker-defying Carissa's Wierd. But her self-titled, self-released 2006 album marked her as a fully formed talent — a warm and inviting singer whose songs convey world-weariness and homespun grace.
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NaN/100 votes#5 - Thao Nguyen
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 9/4/2008
Thao Nguyen makes captivating music. Her songs are raw and infectious, her voice has a distinctive swagger, and she's a remarkably nimble guitarist.
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NaN/100 votes#6 - Lambchop's Kurt Wagner
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/8/2008
Kurt Wagner writes and sings beautiful songs with Lambchop, a hefty Nashville ensemble with a calm, restrained sound. When Kurt Wagner came by the office to play a Tiny Desk Concert, he came alone, with just an acoustic guitar, a stack of lyrics and his humble, good-natured sense of humor.
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NaN/100 votes#7 - Dr. Dog
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 10/20/2008
Dr. Dog isn't an obvious choice for one of NPR Music's Tiny Desk Concerts. For one thing, it's a pretty big group, at least for the small space behind Bob Boilen's desk. The band's music can be pretty chaotic — loud and rumbling, with multiple instruments fighting to be heard. And singer Toby Leaman likes to belt out his vocals in a window-rattling, raspy growl.
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NaN/100 votes#8 - Jim White
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/7/2008
Jim White is a storyteller first and a musician second. It's a kind of storytelling rooted in his own unusual history: He grew up in Florida in a deeply Pentecostal community and fell in love with the white gospel music he heard. But from there, White took a surprising path to becoming a full-time musician. He was a professional surfer, a boxer, a fashion model in Milan and a cab driver in New York City. White's travels recently took him to Washington, D.C., where he stopped by the offices of NPR Music for this live performance.
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NaN/100 votes#9 - Shearwater
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/14/2008
A glorious four-song set that's at once pristine and ramshackle — equal parts clarity and clatter — not to mention one of our best Tiny Desk Concerts yet.
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NaN/100 votes#10 - David Dondero
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 12/30/2008
He should be a name everyone knows by now. Instead, troubadour David Dondero returned to NPR having slept the night before in his car. Dondero travels from club to club, singing his well-crafted songs — songs that have his signature lyrics at their core. His lyrics can make you smile with their wit and hurt with their bite, all at the same time.
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The Best Episodes of NPR Tiny Desk Concerts Season 1
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Season 1 Ratings Summary
"Laura Gibson" is the best rated episode of "NPR Tiny Desk Concerts" season 1. It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 4/22/2008. This episode is rated NaN points higher than the second-best, "Vic Chesnutt".