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KQED.

For NPR music you're connected to all songs considered?

I'm Bob Boylan.

When singer Laura Stevenson came to play a tiny desk in late 2019, we put together a

string quartet to support the gentle songs.

The songs were from a album The Big Freeze.

Somewhat hidden behind her quiet electric guitar was her very pregnant belly, and it all

made for a profound and tender concert.

Now there's new music from Laura Stevenson, and the opening track to herself titled album

is Anything But Tender.

We document some life altering events, the birth of that child during the pandemic, and

the near death of a loved one.

I'm going to play a song called State and have Laura Stevenson tell you more about the

song.

I finished this record like two weeks before I came in to do the tiny desk.

I was fairly pregnant at the time if you remember, and it was a really difficult undertaking

to make this record not because of the physical stresses of pregnancy, which were present,

but because of the material I was actually dealing with.

When I wrote these songs two years prior, I was freshly on the other side of a crisis,

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