Georgia Anne Muldrow: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

April 8, 2019 | Bobby Carter -- Georgia Anne Muldrow is all about showing and spreading love. That fact became clear as we discussed the set list for her Tiny Desk performance. She and the band were floating the possibility of swapping the duet with her partner in music and life, Dudley Perkins with another song. But she decided it was more important to showcase their shared love on the song “Flowers,“ originally from Perkins’ 2003 album A Lil’ Light. The first song I ever heard from Georgia Anne Muldrow, back in the early 2000s, was called “Break You Down.“ The opening line spoke directly to my experience as a twentysomething coming into my own: “Don’t let them make you forget who you are Don’t let them break you down“ I later found that she wrote, produced and performed that song when she was only 17-years old. She possessed talent and perspective beyond her years and I became a fan. Some time would pass before she eventually released her debut album, Olesi: Fragments of an Earth, in 2006. Since then,