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Artist │ Raphael Saadiq
Title │ NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
Label │ NPR Music
Genre │ R&B
Format │ Album
Year │ 2019
Time │ 36:47
Size │ 65.11 MB
Source │ WAV
Bitrate │ VBR 234 kbps
Freq │ 48.0 kHz
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01. I'm Feeling Love 6:36
02. Be Here 5:17
03. This World Is Drunk 6:29
04. Love You Too Much 5:47
05. Call 6:09
06. Still Ray 6:29
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The first time Raphael Saadiq played Tiny Desk, "it was really
a tiny desk."
"And honestly we were kinda complaining about it," Saadiq
laughs, recalling that performance in 2009, back when hosting
intimate little concerts behind Bob Boilen's desk was still a
fledgling idea at NPR Music. "Like, we kinda didn't wanna do it,"
he admits in hindsight. It wasn't until the video-taped version
of his set hit the Internet and began picking up views that the
lightbulb went off for Saadiq, too. "It's like probably the
biggest streaming I ever had, so it's kinda good to be back -
not kinda good; it's really good to be back."
As he tells this story, exactly one decade later, Saadiq's return
to a slightly bigger Tiny Desk ù to close out NPR's live-streamed
Tiny Desk Fest ù coincides with the biggest record of his career.
Named for one of three brothers who succumbed to addiction,
Jimmy Lee is his most personal, most vulnerable, most fearless
work yet, and it comes at a point, more than 30 years into his
career, when Saadiq has nothing left to prove or lose.
This is the same man, after all, who lit the fuse for soul's popular
revival as the lead for Tony! Toni! Tone!, at a time when black
bands bordered near-extinction. Then he led an entire
generation of artists to the well and made them drink. In addition
to a solo discography that cakewalks backward through the latter
half of 20th-century funk and soul, his production credits read
like a score card of black music MVPs over the last 20 years
(D'Angelo, Erykah Badu, Mary J. Blige, Ledisi, John Legend,
Solange). If he's made it look effortless, that's because,
sometimes, it has been.
Take the time when he was walking around the East Village in
New York one day out of the blue. "I was like, let me see
where can I get a joint from," as he recalls during our post
performance conversation. The thought led him to Electric Lady
Studios, where D'Angelo had taken up residence while working
on his second solo album. "I rung the bell: 'Is D'Angelo here?'
He opens the door. He's like, 'What's up!' I said, 'You got a
joint?' 'Hell yeah I got a joint.' He's like, 'Can we do a song?'
I'm like, 'Yeah, whatever....'"
Needless to say the two already had history together - they'd
co-written and co-produced "Lady," D'Angelo's biggest hit until
that point ù and they were about to make more: "We walk in
and we do "Untitled [(How Does It Feel)"] in maybe like two
hours," he says.
True to form, Saadiq is still a talent magnet. For his Tiny Desk Fest
set ù recorded on Halloween, which explains the costumed crowd -
he's joined by rising soul singer and songwriter Lucky Daye, who
released his Grammy-nominated debut album, Painted, and made
his own Tiny Desk debut this year. Daye performs two songs from
that album, in addition to backing Saadiq, who also brought along
a sousaphone player for his Instant Vintage classic, "Still Ray."
His collaborative performance with Daye is yet another testament
to Saadiq's widespread influence, which remains something of an
pen secret to those in the know. Meanwhile, Jimmy Lee continues
to garner Saadiq the kind of attention typically reserved for newer
artists. After a career spent contributing so much of his genius
behind the scenes and painting over the dark spots in his past with
bright, ecstatic strokes, his latest feat feels like a revelation.
"I'm really just shocked about my whole career," he says. "People
say Raphael Saadiq is the most slept-on artist. I think I slept on
myself, too. I would read this all the time [and] go, 'Slept on? I'm
slept on? Cause I ain't Kanye? Cause I ain't talking loud?' Naw,
they know."
Indeed, we always have.
SET LIST
I'm Feeling Love
Be Here
This World Is Drunk
Love You Too Much
Call
Still Ray
MUSICIANS
Raphael Saadiq: vocals, guitar
Lucky Daye: vocals
Rob Bacon: guitar, vocals
Alvin Ford: drums
DaQuantae "Q" Johnson: bass
Daniel Crawford: keys
Brent Gossett: sousaphone
CREDITS
Producers: Abby O'Neill, Bobby Carter, Morgan Noelle Smith
Creative director: Bob Boilen
Audio engineers: Josh Rogosin, Natasha Branch
Videographers: Morgan Noelle Smith, Tsering Bista, Kara Frame,
CJ Riculan, Jack Corbett
Production assistant: Zemoria Mathis
Executive producer: Lauren Onkey
VP, programming: Anya Grundmann
Photo Mhari Shaw/NPR
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