Laura Jane Grace & the Mississippi Medicals: Tiny Desk Concert
Lars Gotrich | July 3, 2024
The set list kept changing, right up until showtime. Laura Jane Grace had to cram more than two decades of music — both solo material and from her influential punk band Against Me! — into 15 minutes. Her band was used to this gleeful chaos. Grace’s wife, Paris Campbell Grace, Drive-By Truckers’ Matt Patton and The Ergs’ Mikey Erg make up the Mississippi Medicals, a loving and stabilizing force for a catalog of songs about American injustice, creative frustration, identity and broken promises… but also hope through collective action and personal revelation. In this Tiny Desk, you’ll see them play newer songs (“I’m Not a Cop“ and “All F***** Out“), but also throwbacks to “Pints of Guinness Make You Strong” (a personal request) and an absolutely powerful version of “Black Me Out.“
An Against Me! show changed my life. Before Grace’s set, I shared a story about a sweet, sheltered suburban kid who spent his freshman year at shows instead of studying for class. (I lost my college scholarship, but, hey it worked out for me in the end.) Reinventing Axl Rose had just come out, but everyone knew every single word. In the small living room, the mass of bodies moved like high tide, pushing and pulling as we gleefully sang, “ ‘Cause, baby, I’m an anarchist / And you’re a spineless liberal.“ We knew that the world can be rotten and cruel, yet could be beautiful, too, in how we fight for freedom together. At one point, the swell spilled over and I fell out the back door, then was quickly pulled back up because that’s what we do when someone falls.
Walking back to my dorm room afterward, beaming and bruised, I had a realization: Punk is complex and contradictory; it will fail and frustrate you… but it will also set you free. That paradox still haunts and challenges me, but I wear these songs — and all that have come after — like armor.
SET LIST
“I’m Not a Cop”
“All F***** Out”
“Supernatural Possession”
“Pints of Guinness Make You Strong”
“Black Me Out”
MUSICIANS
Laura Jane Grace: vocals, guitar
Paris Campbell Grace: vocals
Matt Patton: bass, vocals
Mikey Erg: drums, vocals
TINY DESK TEAM
Producer: Lars Gotrich
Director/Editor: Maia Stern
Audio Technical Director: Josephine Nyounai
Host/Series Producer: Bobby Carter
Videographers: Maia Stern, Joshua Bryant, Elizabeth Gillis
Audio Engineer: Carleigh Strange
Photographer: Estefania Mitre
Tiny Desk Team: Hazel Cills, Kara Frame, Ashley Pointer
Executive Producer: Suraya Mohamed
Series Creators: Bob Boilen, Stephen Thompson
VP, Visuals and Music: Keith Jenkins
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