The Staves: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert

The Tiny Desk is working from home for the foreseeable future. Introducing NPR Music's Tiny Desk (home) concerts, bringing you performances from across the country and the world. It's the same spirit — stripped-down sets, an intimate setting — just a different space.

Bob Boilen | Sep. 1, 2021
Gathered in their kitchen are sisters, Emily, Jessica, and Camilla Staveley-Taylor; best known as The Staves. “We haven’t got a tiny desk; we’ve got our kitchen table.” But where The Staves gathered, along with guitarist and tenor horn player Marcus Hamblett, is deeply embedded in their family history. “We’re coming to you from Watford, England, in the house we grew up in and the table where we wrote most of our songs around. And we would road test every song in this kitchen, so we thought we’d play some songs for you from here.”

The four songs in this home concert all come from Good Woman, their first album in six years. It was produced with John Congleton (who’s previously worked with an ocean of artists, from St. Vincent to Nelly Furtado) and written after the passing of their mom and the birth of Emily’s first child. This stripped-down performance is a beautiful way to experience these sisters’ gorgeous harmonies through their songs of strength, loss, life and womanhood.

SET LIST
"Nothing's Gonna Happen"
"Good Woman"
"Satisfied"
"Waiting on Me to Change"

MUSICIANS
Jessica Staveley-Taylor: vocal, guitar, keys
Camilla Staveley-Taylor: vocal, guitar
Emily Staveley-Taylor: vocal
Marcus Hamblett: guitar, tenor horn

CREDITS
Video: SJ Film
Audio: Iain Graham
Audio Mix: Josh Rogosin

TINY DESK TEAM
Producer: Bob Boilen
Video Producer: Kara Frame
Tiny Production Team: Bobby Carter, Maia Stern, Gabrielle Pierre
Executive Producer: Keith Jenkins
Senior VP, Programming: Anya Grundmann

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