Leon Bridges: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

September 08, 2015 by BOB BOILEN We probably should have shot this Tiny Desk Concert in black-and-white. Listening to Leon Bridges, I hear a sound with its heart and soul rooted in 1962. There’s purity in his voice that’s unadorned, untouched and unaffected by 21st-century pop. It’s just soul. Still, the songs from this 26-year-old Fort Worth singer feel refreshing in the context of the day. Surely there’s touches of Sam Cooke’s spiritual sound, but Leon Bridges has a way of making the familiar feel adven