Stephen Thompson | March 15, 2024
Walking into the room shortly before Justin Timberlake took our cramped stage, I overheard someone on his team wondering aloud if this was to be the most densely populated Tiny Desk concert in history — which is to say, the most musicians we’ve ever fit in a single frame. It’s not, but we don’t often find a way to cram in this many human beings (15 in all) and this much gear.

Timberlake has never been one to give partial effort, but this is a production befitting the occasion: namely, a set timed to drop concurrently with the release of his new album, Everything I Thought It Was. Eschewing the rootsier feel of its predecessor, 2018’s Man of the Woods, the new record is a throwback, an epic and a blowout — and so’s this lavish set, which scales the Timberlake experience down to 25 minutes of maximalist celebration and, when the moment calls for it, chiller vibes.

Backed by his band The Tennessee Kids, Timberlake’s Tiny Desk debut leans heavily on his early solo catalog, as he kicks it off with two songs from 2002’s classic Justified and weaves in three more from 2006’s magnificent FutureSex/LoveSounds — including a set-closing “SexyBack,” which finds the singer trotting out a megaphone in a truly meme-worthy moment.

By the way, in case you’re wondering, the all-time record for musicians behind the Tiny Desk is a whopping 23, a feat pulled off by the fantastic Mucca Pazza in 2015. But Timberlake and company rival that classic performance’s energy — in both cases, the real triumph lies not in the Tetris of it all, but in the way that many people still find ways to move, buoyantly and as one mighty organism.

SET LIST
“Señorita”
“Rock Your Body”
“Pusher Love Girl”
“Until The End Of Time”
“Selfish”
“What Goes Around”
“SexyBack”

MUSICIANS
Justin Timberlake: lead vocals, guitar, keys
RaVaughn Brown: vocals
Camry: vocals
Erin Stevenson: vocals
Kenyon Dixon: vocals
Justin Gilbert: keys
Mike Reid: drums
Elliot Ives: guitar
Derrick Ray: bass
Leon Silva: saxophone
Kevin Williams: trombone, flute
Dontae Winslow: trumpet
Sean Erick: trumpet
Adam Blackstone: keys, percussion, music direction
Andrew Hypes: DJ

TINY DESK TEAM
Producer: Bobby Carter
Director/Editor: Maia Stern
Audio Technical Director: Neil Tevault
Videographers: Maia Stern, Kara Frame, Joshua Bryant, Alanté Serene, Elizabeth Gillis
Audio Engineers: Kwesi Lee, Adam Blackstone, Danny Cheung
Production Assistant: Ashley Pointer
Photographer: Estefania Mitre
Tiny Desk Copy Editor: Hazel Cills
Executive Producer: Suraya Mohamed
Series Creators: Bob Boilen, Stephen Thompson
VP, Visuals and Music: Keith Jenkins

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0:15 Señorita
2:20 Rock Your Body
4:40 Pusher Love Girl
7:30 Until The End Of Time
12:44 Selfish
16:40 What Goes Around
19:56 SexyBack

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This Tiny Desk concert was part of Tiny Desk Fest, a four-night series of extended concerts performed in front of a live audience and streamed live on YouTube, Twitter and Facebook.

Dec. 3, 2019 | Stephen Thompson — “I heard a big thing on NPR about the shrinking of the attention span and how now, with pop songs, everything has like six seconds before you gotta change it, because the kids swipe over,” Sheryl Crow tells the crowd early in her Tiny Desk Fest concert. “I’m just gonna tell you right now: We’re dinosaurs. … And while the kids are all writing fast food — which is super-cool ’cause it tastes great, super-filling — we’re sort of still writing salmon. We’re the songwriters that are here to tax your attention span.”

Twenty-five years ago this fall, Crow was in the midst of a massive career breakthrough: Her inescapable hit “All I Wanna Do” was entrenched in the Top 5 — it would later win the Grammy for Record of the Year — and her 1993 debut album, Tuesday Night Music Club, was well on its way to selling more than 7 million copies in the U.S. alone. The years since have been similarly kind. A heavily decorated but eternally approachable star, Crow has released 11 albums and won nine Grammys en route to her latest, a duets collection called Threads.

For NPR’s Tiny Desk Fest, Crow and her crack band of rock-and-roll lifers performed a 35-minute set (including two unexpected encores) that featured new material from Threads and a handful of hits that have morphed over the years into pop standards. From the easygoing opening strains of “All I Wanna Do” to the rousing final notes of “If It Makes You Happy,” we were in some of the surest hands in the business.

SET LIST
“All I Wanna Do”
“A Change Would Do You Good”
“Prove You Wrong”
“Tell Me When It’s Over”
“Cross Creek Road”
“Out Of Our Heads”
“If It Makes You Happy”

MUSICIANS
Sheryl Crow: vocals, guitar, keys; Peter Stroud: guitar; Frederick Eltringham: drums; Robert Kearns: bass; Jen Gunderman: keys; Audley Freed: guitar; Joshua Grange: pedal steel

CREDITS
Producers: Lauren Onkey, Morgan Noelle Smith; Creative Director: Bob Boilen; Audio Engineers: Josh Rogosin, James Willetts; Videographers: Morgan Noelle Smith, Maia Stern, Kara Frame, Bronson Arcuri, Jack Corbett; Associate Producer: Bobby Carter; Production Assistant: Zemoria Mathis; Executive Producer: Lauren Onkey; VP, Programming: Anya Grundmann; Photo: Mhari Shaw/NPR

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