Julien Baker: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

March 7, 2016 by BOB BOILEN There are nine spare, simple songs on Julien Baker’s debut album, Sprained Ankle, and every one of them is sad. In fact, she came to the Tiny Desk with an untitled new one — since given the name “Funeral Pyre“ — and she appropriately introduced it as “Sad Song #11.“ But Baker’s shimmering electric-guitar picking, the purity of her voice and the yearning way she sings make each of her songs lovely and memorable rather than merely somber. She takes raw emotions and weaves them in