During Brittney Spencer's NPR Tiny Desk Concert debut, the Baltimore-born musician performed the first live performance of “The Last Time,” a soulful track from her debut album. My stupid life. As she explained midway through her six-song set, the song grew out of a conversation about the scarcity of love songs in her back catalog. It's often in those moments, when she leans into the creative acts she avoids, that Spencer finds breakthroughs.
“This album, I feel like it really opened me up and made me be a little more honest,” Spencer explained of the album. “And now when I look back, I say why were you so nervous? You didn't even say anything embarrassingly revealing.”
All six songs from her Tiny Desk set are featured My stupid life, including “Bigger Than the Song”, “If You Say So”, “Night In”, “My First Rodeo” and “I Got Time”. Joining Spencer for the performance were vocalist Abbey Cone, vocalist and drummer Jordan West, vocalist and guitarist Omri Skop, vocalist and bassist John McNally, and vocalist and keyboardist Martin “Harrison” Finks.
Spencer was released My stupid life in January, just over two months before she appeared alongside Reyna Roberts, Tanner Adell and Tiera Kennedy on “Blackbeard,” a deep cut into Beyoncé's country opus Cowboy Carter.
Looking ahead to her next record, Spencer explains: “My writing has changed since then. I'm talking about all genres now and I can't wait to be able to put out new music.”
The musician's Tiny Desk debut comes during Black Music Month, for which NPR has scheduled a series of performances by nine black women. Spencer's appearance follows sets from Tems, Lakecia Benjamin, Tierra Whack, Chaka Khan and Kierra Sheard.
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