Courtney Barnett: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

Courtney Barnett can tell you a story like she s your best friend provided your best friend is a funny poet with an Australian accent. Listen to Avant Gardener, an autobiographical account of trying to turn a life around through gardening, only to be foiled by a severe allergic reaction. The tale that follows at this Tiny Desk Concert, History Eraser, is a ramble in an alcoholfueled dream state; it features some of the best lyricwriting in music today. Here s a sample from that song: I found an Ezra Pound and made a bet that if I found a cigarette I d drop it all and marry you. Just then a song comes on: You can t always get what you want The Rolling Stones, oh, woe is we, the irony The Stones became the moss and once all inhibitions lost, the hipsters made a mission to the farm. We drove by tractor there, the yellow straw replaced our hair, we laced the dairy river with the cream of sweet The only downside for a fan like me is that these songs have been kicking around my head for m