This Black Music Month, Tiny Desk is giving the women their flowers. We’re releasing 9 Tiny Desk live shows from Black girls artists, from veterans who’ve paved the best way for what we hear at the moment in Black music, to those that are carving out their very own paths.

Brittney Spencer arrived on the Tiny Desk holding Reppy, her inexperienced stuffed dinosaur, tightly underneath her arm. She smiled as she appeared across the workplace, taking all of it in. Maybe she was fascinated about her journey and the numerous years it took to get to this second — singing as a woman in church in Baltimore, transferring to Nashville to pursue a music profession full time and the challenges she has confronted as a Black lady attempting to interrupt into the nation music scene.

Part of a brand new era of nation music artists who’re pushing boundaries, Spencer is a celebrated singer-songwriter who’s shortly rising within the style. Her debut album, My Silly Life, got here out earlier this yr and this set options a lot of these songs. Every is a private story formed by the completely different sorts of music she loves, all woven along with a rustic sensibility. She informed the viewers midway by means of the set, “This album actually cracked me huge open and it made me really feel somewhat extra sincere.”

Vulnerability is among the many strengths that highlights her magnificence. “Is there lipstick on my enamel?” she requested playfully proper after the live performance. “That was actually my thought by means of the entire present.” Then she took Reppy off the Desk and tenderly shared that he was her emotional assist animal. She hugged him onerous and determined to go away him behind on our cabinets.

SET LIST

• “Larger Than The Music”
• “If You Say So”
• “Evening In”
• “The Final Time”
• “My First Rodeo”
• “I Obtained Time”

MUSICIANS

• Brittney Spencer: lead vocals
• Abbey Cone: vocals
• Jordan West: drums, vocals
• Omri Skop: guitar, vocals
• John McNally: bass, vocals
• Martin “Harrison” Finks: keys, vocals

TINY DESK TEAM

• Producers: Bobby Carter, Ashley Pointer
• Director/Editor: Joshua Bryant
• Audio Technical Director: Hannah Gluvnah 
• Videographers: Joshua Bryant, Maia Stern, Kara Body, Mitra I. Arthur
• Audio Engineer: Josephine Nyounai
• Audio Combine: Josh Newell 
• Photographer: Alanté Serene
• Animation: Jackie Lay
• Florist: Kelanda Edwards
• Tiny Desk Copy Editor: Hazel Cills
• Government Producer: Suraya Mohamed
• Sequence Creators: Bob Boilen, Stephen Thompson
• VP, Visuals and Music: Keith Jenkins