If you want it, Faye Webster's Tiny Desk can offer an escape. Featuring her longtime band and a string quartet, Webster guides us through a swooning and sweeping set culled from her quickly growing catalog.

Webster's Underdressed at the Symphony was inspired by just that: Buying last-minute tickets to the symphony orchestra in her hometown of Atlanta and finding the experience otherworldly. She performs "But Not Kiss" and the title track from that album. Webster is a gentle but captivating performer in this space, at times grooving with her locked-in band. But she also appears to be in a trance of her own, like on the Atlanta Millionaires Club cuts "Jonny" and its spoken-word reprise. The horns heard on those original recordings gave everything a brassy warmth, but here, Trey Pollard's string arrangements enhance this Tiny Desk's dream-like quality.

SET LIST

• "In A Good Way"

• "But Not Kiss"

• "Underdressed at the Symphony"

• "Jonny"

• "Jonny (Reprise)"

MUSICIANS

• Faye Webster: vocals, guitar

• Noor Khan: bass, backing vocals

• Matthew Stoessel: guitar, pedal steel 

• Nick Rosen: piano

• Charles Garner: drums, percussion

• Ellen Riccio: violin 

• Danielle Wiebe Burke: viola 

• Stephanie Barrett: cello 

• Annie Leeth: violin

TINY DESK TEAM

• Producer: Elle Mannion

• Director/Editor: Kara Frame

• Audio Technical Director: Josh Newell

• Host/Series Producer: Bobby Carter

• Videographers: Kara Frame, Maia Stern, Joshua Bryant, Sofia Seidel

• Audio Engineer: Andie Huether

• Production Assistant: Ashley Pointer

• Photographer: Estefania Mitre

• Tiny Desk Copy Editor: Hazel Cills

• Executive Producer: Suraya Mohamed

• Series Creators: Bob Boilen, Stephen Thompson

• VP, Visuals and Music: Keith Jenkins

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