Adrianne Lenker at the Club Passim Summer Outdoor Series in Harvard Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts on September 6, 2012. adriannelenker.bandcamp.com/
Yeah how is this possible? I’m a recent convert to Big Thief and to her, and I can believe she’s 30 now. That’s shes even this good back this many years blows my mind. Some people just have that radiance, so very rare.
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to stop in my bloody tracks and listen to every word and every chord that is issued from Adriane Lenker if I'm lucky enough to be moseying past her while she's busking in the street.
adrianne is an angel, she knows that life is a gift and is able to articulate life into words like nobody i have ever known, she is the most talented and heartfelt singer and songwriter i have ever and will ever come across, she is so unbelievably beautiful
I've played lots of these "outdoor series" shows here in Minneapolis. It's such a strange feeling. You'll spend hours or days working on a new song, and when you play it for folks while they go about their day, it feels like it just evaporates. Nobody who is walking to catch a bus or get a bite to eat is expecting to engage with a song they've never heard before, and most people don't share the same taste in music, so what little attention you get is usually surprising. Adrienne is younger than me, but I feel some kinship with her here, and it feels good to know that songwriters I admire have done these kinds of "shows" too and received similar reactions from passersby.
@@eyeojo Do you mean that she's not focused on how other people feel about what she's made? That's probably true - she's really true to herself. I've spent my whole life working on that!
One time decades ago a friend of mine saw The Violent Femmes playing on a street corner in Greensboro N.C. I've done my share of busking and some days I'd reach people and walk with a couple hundred bucks other times I'd feel lucky to walk away at all. Especially when the isolated church folks came down out of the hills for their monthly restock of booze. One day i was playing in Yadkinville N.C. and a woman walking by took one look at me and started crying and screaming for her husband like I was going to attack her on the street in broad day light. He came running up like I was one of those fake street punks from the Deathwish movies. I told him she needed therapy if seeing a musician playing guitar on the sidewalk hit her like that. He was like "Well you don't exactly look normal!" I said "NORMAL PEOPLE DON'T FREAK OUT WHEN THEY SEE OTHER PEOPLE!"
I haven't known of her for very long. I was really missing out. She's incredible,! I love her gifts! Thank you so much for the way your music moves me Adrianne! Live long and happily, I hope you are doing well. Bless your heart and may love fill your heart, your an awesome soul!!
looks like most comments are from 2020 and 2021. Everyone having the time is finding all the good shit. This page has felt like a place in my life for the last 5 years. I really hope more people keep coming and sharing their love for Adrian. She is so amazing.
The song was released 2 years after this video, so at the time of posting it was potentially unnamed - or tentatively named Only Seventeen in her set list
Yes! I recognized it. Looks like it's at the Club Passim Summer Outdoor Series in Harvard Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts on or around September 6, 2012
Those 2 women off to the right seem to be put off by the music...at one point rolling their eyes and shaking their heads as if to say." Ugh...why do we have to hear this on our lunch break?". The side eye shade from the woman in black on her cell phone is an energy really out of place- Adrienne's music - you can tell - just really isn't her jam.🎵🎶🎼🎤👧🏻🎸 👂🏾👀👂🏾🙅🏾
the lady @ 1:05 just kills me with that look as if she's seeing someone play music for the first time
Hysterical! 🤣😂Adrianne's voice nearly did the same for me when I first heard her sing with Big Thief.
sarcastronaut She just seems naturally slack-jawed
That's Aldous Harding checking out the competition.🤣
It's Harvard, it's full of ignorant and bigot people. That was well hidden by the love of God, but has now been exposed as a result of their betrayal.
@@JuvoII Show me where Harvard hurt you
God even way back then she was so good
Yeah how is this possible? I’m a recent convert to Big Thief and to her, and I can believe she’s 30 now. That’s shes even this good back this many years blows my mind. Some people just have that radiance, so very rare.
I read that she auditioned for Berklee college of music and was admitted right off.
baby sounds at 2:15
most appropriate sample ever
The presence of the baby is an added jewel to this already delicate magnificent work of art.
I can't understand how everyone is just walking by. I wouldn't know what to do with myself if I just heard this in the wild
You'd walk by because you'd be listening to music through your headphones.
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to stop in my bloody tracks and listen to every word and every chord that is issued from Adriane Lenker if I'm lucky enough to be moseying past her while she's busking in the street.
Harvard square - take out them earbuds
word
adrianne is an angel, she knows that life is a gift and is able to articulate life into words like nobody i have ever known, she is the most talented and heartfelt singer and songwriter i have ever and will ever come across, she is so unbelievably beautiful
exactly, you get it
totally exactly accurately!!!!!!!!
young Adrianne was jacked
she still is tbh i wanna know How
@@444han I'm glad I'm not the only one jonesing for Adrienne's workout secrets
@@olgafedorova6745 no i need to knowww
@@444han She's a black belt in karate.
@@444han shes a karate champion
I've played lots of these "outdoor series" shows here in Minneapolis. It's such a strange feeling. You'll spend hours or days working on a new song, and when you play it for folks while they go about their day, it feels like it just evaporates. Nobody who is walking to catch a bus or get a bite to eat is expecting to engage with a song they've never heard before, and most people don't share the same taste in music, so what little attention you get is usually surprising. Adrienne is younger than me, but I feel some kinship with her here, and it feels good to know that songwriters I admire have done these kinds of "shows" too and received similar reactions from passersby.
Something tells me it has nothing to do with them or their reactions.
@@eyeojo Do you mean that she's not focused on how other people feel about what she's made? That's probably true - she's really true to herself. I've spent my whole life working on that!
One time decades ago a friend of mine saw The Violent Femmes playing on a street corner in Greensboro N.C. I've done my share of busking and some days I'd reach people and walk with a couple hundred bucks other times I'd feel lucky to walk away at all. Especially when the isolated church folks came down out of the hills for their monthly restock of booze. One day i was playing in Yadkinville N.C. and a woman walking by took one look at me and started crying and screaming for her husband like I was going to attack her on the street in broad day light. He came running up like I was one of those fake street punks from the Deathwish movies. I told him she needed therapy if seeing a musician playing guitar on the sidewalk hit her like that. He was like "Well you don't exactly look normal!" I said "NORMAL PEOPLE DON'T FREAK OUT WHEN THEY SEE OTHER PEOPLE!"
@@chrissawyer4060 Yikes! I've always thought I should do more busking, but now I'm reconsidering!
Big Thief is my favorite band. Sitting here in my bath robe, eating a Reese's cup, getting goosebumps through most of this...
2:18 i never never let you go and the baby cries in the background
great recoridng
The song is Lighthouse
I haven't known of her for very long. I was really missing out. She's incredible,! I love her gifts! Thank you so much for the way your music moves me Adrianne! Live long and happily, I hope you are doing well. Bless your heart and may love fill your heart, your an awesome soul!!
Adrienne and Big Thief some of the best music ever
I got so excited when i heard lighthouse! She’s such a talented artist even all these years ago
Isn't this Lighthouse from Hours Were The Birds?
Yep
looks like most comments are from 2020 and 2021. Everyone having the time is finding all the good shit. This page has felt like a place in my life for the last 5 years. I really hope more people keep coming and sharing their love for Adrian. She is so amazing.
This is incredible 😍
So much heart!
So crushed on Adrienne such a talent 👏👌
So beautiful
omg LOVE.. an it chokes me up.
so beatifull
Holy shit she's good. I heard Simulation Swarm and found this.
btw the name of this song is "Lighthouse" by Adrianne Lenker, not "Only Seventeen"! 😅
The song was released 2 years after this video, so at the time of posting it was potentially unnamed - or tentatively named Only Seventeen in her set list
she was just a baby!
No she's the one playing the guitar, we don't know who the baby is
I was that baby and I’ve been searching for this song ever since that day. So glad I finally made my way back. So comforting
as jojo richman says "just about seventeen"
So very talented and brave, and moreso a decade later. What model Yamaha is that anyway? Anyone know?
Would’ve been late for wherever I was supposed to be
People look so tiny and shy walking past her.
I want to buy this song....
its called lighthouse!
Collective Pursuit Project oh my gosh, thank u!!!
@@jadechang2530 Damn, your comment sent me down a rabbit hole of 80s hair metal videos.
Anyone know where this is? I’m just curious.
Yes! I recognized it. Looks like it's at the Club Passim Summer Outdoor Series in Harvard Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts on or around September 6, 2012
@@donovanlittler7798 lmao
everyone walking by is like :0
Smooth.
sounds like laura marling
Is that matilda soderlund in the background😭😂
함박웃음이 레어로 나오네
Is this her song?
Charlotte Hamilton
it's called lighthouse now! ua-cam.com/video/PEMsgRgCceA/v-deo.html
her and justin vernon are the best
side lady at 1:06 is from the future.
Is that really?
*people walking by* 👁👄👁
Has she always had giant muscles?
hell yeah bruther
Right? !
I always been so impressed and envious! I want those arms really bad ahah
According to Wiki, "Her other interests include studying Taekwondo, and she was the State Karate Champion three years in a row" - wow
Is there a pocket sized Adrianne lenker I can buy?
@ 2:45 shameless dude
Can’t expect everyone to stop besides if you stopped to listen to every musician on the road, you’d never get to where you set off to go.
Those 2 women off to the right seem to be put off by the music...at one point rolling their eyes and shaking their heads as if to say." Ugh...why do we have to hear this on our lunch break?". The side eye shade from the woman in black on her cell phone is an energy really out of place- Adrienne's music - you can tell - just really isn't her jam.🎵🎶🎼🎤👧🏻🎸 👂🏾👀👂🏾🙅🏾
such inspiration. my heroes were once the same slop i am today
this is me now