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Tiny Desk Concerts - Audio

Tom Adams

Tiny Desk Concerts - Audio

NPR

Music

4.61.8K Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2020

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

The singer and songwriter plays four new songs from his home in Cornwall, accompanied by a modular synthesizer and fronted by Adams' gifted falsetto.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey there Bob Boilin here.

0:01.8

This concert's part of our Tiny Desk Home Concert series.

0:05.0

We started back in mid-March of 2020 when we couldn't record concerts at my desk at NPR

0:10.1

due to the pandemic.

0:11.4

You can watch this concert at npr.org or on the npr music YouTube channel.

0:16.8

Enjoy. Ooh.

0:25.0

Ooh. Ooh.

0:28.0

Ooh.

0:30.0

Ooh. Ooh. Ooh.

0:31.0

Ooh. Oh, The I'm going to And every year we gather here on the Western Coast,

1:20.0

and for a week just disappear in this place that I love the most.

1:31.0

We turn the most. We turn the year, we turn the year. In this company of gold.

1:37.0

In this company of gold. the youth go.

1:47.0

walking out into the hills and scattered. Walking out into the hills and scattered in the wind.

1:57.7

And after dark through force of will, make it home again.

2:07.0

What a day!

2:11.0

What a day!

2:12.0

To share. What a day? day to share with these good friend.

2:17.0

Ooh. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, no, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, We sing the songs that we always sing until we've sung more.

2:59.0

And through the evening our voices ring

3:07.0

after so's all the home

3:11.0

and watch the dance, the dance, the oldest dance of all. civil.

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