Tiny Desk Meets SXSW: DUCKWRTH

Every year, NPR Music participates in the SXSW music festival, whether it’s curating a stage or simply attending hundreds of shows at the annual event in Austin, Texas. Last year, the festival was canceled due to the pandemic, but it returned this March as an online festival. We programmed a ’stage’ of Tiny Desk (home) concerts and presented them on the final day of the festival. Now, we present to you Tiny Desk Meets SXSW: four videos filmed in various locations, all of them full of surprises. Bobby Carter | April 7, 2021 DUCKWRTH decided to do something special for Tiny Desk Meets SXSW: brand new music. “Welcome to my Tiny Desk,“ he says. “We are gonna play some new songs for y’all if that’s OK. Y’all ain’t got no choice!“ The dynamic R&B singer proceeded to debut two exclusives: a slow jam titled “make u go,“ which he dedicates to the “lovers and freaks,“ and the upbeat “Birthday Suit,“ which KCRW astutely compared to Estelle’s “American Boy.“ The new material wasn’t the only thing that made this Tiny D