When a performer has an exceptional night, we sometimes say he or she “left it all on stage“ — the “it“ being effort, energy, passion, sweat. To close a concert with a raw throat and a rumpled appearance signifies full disclosure, proof that the person on stage has held absolutely nothing back. Diane Cluck’s performances, at their best, take a near-opposite approach: unfolding melodies of winding complexity without the barest hint of strain or struggle.
A rich 15-year recording career precedes this year’s Boneset, as thrilling a showcase of Cluck’s clawed, counterintuitive fingerpicking and elastic voice as anything she’s ever released. Witnessing the same process live, however, jams the senses — it’s almost easier to imagine some tiny spirit in her chest is controlling the action, turning a pitch wheel with one hand and a tone knob with the other. In three songs at the Tiny Desk (two from Boneset and a sparkling new piano number, “Grandma Say“) she bro
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Diane Cluck: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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Lucifer
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Half a Million Miles from Home
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Easy to Be Around
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Diane Cluck - Sara - (Official Video)
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Listen To This
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Diane Cluck — Welcome Table
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Diane Cluck, May 2000 -- Camera in the hands of Tom Ruth
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Diane Cluck with Rajasthan Roots - ’Hai’
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Diane Cluck - Nowhere to go & Everywhere to stay | A Take Away Show
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DIANE CLUCK Far Too Witchy / Bad Bonn Song Book Tutorial
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Clip Get More Into Music: Dianne Cluck
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Marian McLaughlin: NPR Tiny Desk Concert
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Diane Cluck: Sara, Live in The Greene Space
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Diane Cluck - Phoenix and Doves (Live at The Rickshaw Stop. SF, CA.)
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Diane Cluck “Draw Me Out“ on WNYC’s Spinning On Air
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Diane Cluck “Not Afraid to Be Kind“ & “Why Feel Alone“ on WNYC’s Spinning On Air
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