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&lt;p&gt;Summer Fridays are great, but &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.npr.org/series/tiny-desk-concerts/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Tiny Desk Concerts&lt;/a&gt; are better. And if you don&#39;t know what Tiny Desk Concerts are, I both envy you and feel sorry for you. I envy you because you have so many great Tiny Desk Concerts to experience for the first time. And I feel sorry for you because you&#39;ve missed so many great Tiny Desk Concerts over the years.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I also envy anyone who&#39;s ever &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=181881227&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;interned&lt;/a&gt; for NPR in Washington, D.C., because they&#39;ve been able to attend these live, intimate concerts as part of their jobs. And I can&#39;t imagine a better perk. Imagine, as part of your job, getting to watch Wilco live in concert with about 20 other people. Or Chance the Rapper live with a handful of your coworkers. Or The National, Adele, Hozier, Yusef/Cat Stevens, Sylvan Esso, Death Cab for Cutie, or xx. All as part of your job. Or, at least, while you&#39;re at work.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;To give you an idea of this amazing summer perk (which, yes, is available to full-timers at NPR in D.C., too), here are a few of my favorite Tiny Desk moments in recent years.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1. Natalie Merchant.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This entire concert, featuring Merchant&#39;s transcendent voice, is excellent, but if you skip ahead to the 20:40 mark you&#39;ll see how Merchant gets all of NPR&#39;s staff in attendance to sing along with her. And if you need a little musical healing these days (I sure do), this should help.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;iframe width=&quot;560&quot; height=&quot;315&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/iOdsAE8Mq7I&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; allowfullscreen=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&#160;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&#160;&lt;strong&gt;2. Watkins Family Hour featuring Fiona Apple.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The bluegrass collective Watkins Family Hour are virtuoso musicians. And so, when you add Fiona Apple&#39;s voice to the mix on the old standard &quot;In the Pines&quot; (which many major musical acts, including &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOZKz_sPM6U&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Nirvana&lt;/a&gt;, have famously covered) you get gold. Skip to 3:40 and be prepared to be stunned by the notes coming out of Apple&#39;s body.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;iframe width=&quot;560&quot; height=&quot;315&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/qQ4PZVj66ac&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; allowfullscreen=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&#160;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&#160;&lt;strong&gt;3. John C. Reilly &amp;amp; Friends.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Reilly, you probably know, is an accomplished comic actor (&lt;em&gt;Boogie Nights&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Talladega Nights&lt;/em&gt;,&#160;&lt;em&gt;Step Brothers&lt;/em&gt;, etc.). But you probably don&#39;t know that he&#39;s also a pretty good guitarist and singer. Here, he showcases all of these skills, telling jokes, singing old folk songs with his all-star band, and even giving the NPR staff a couple of &quot;tips&quot; during the intro and outro to the band&#39;s final song, which begins at 12:12.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;iframe width=&quot;560&quot; height=&quot;315&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/f2rkstacMlg&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; allowfullscreen=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&#160;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Follow me on&#160;&lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/vaultfinance&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Twitter&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Follow us on&#160;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.instagram.com/vaultcareers/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Instagram&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&#160;&lt;/p&gt;

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