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Ted Leo: Tiny Desk Concert

Leo's work has, more often than not through the decades, addressed an anxious world, growing and shifting with it and with its listeners. Seven years after his last solo album, he's turned inwards.
Ted Leo performs a Tiny Desk Concert on Oct. 23, 2017 (Claire Harbage/NPR).

The Ted Leo who showed up to perform at our office this fall was no stranger to NPR Music; in fact, he'd stood on that very spot a few years earlier, trading verses in their collaborative project The Both. But he did seem like a changed man.

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