Does it really seem that unlikely that Carrie Brownstein would release an album of 16th-century English folk ballads? She does live in Portland, and she is probably friends with at least a couple of Decemberists. I could kind of see it. In any case, Brownstein was a guest on Stephen Colbert's Late Show last night, promoting her new memoir, the just-published Hunger Makes Me A Modern Girl. On the show, she sat for an interview with Colbert and did a pretty incredible job fielding this impossible question: "Are you cool?" And as a bonus online comedy bit, she performed a bit of O Dreary, Baneful Morning, the English folk album that she is definitely not going to release in real life. Below, watch the interview and the comedy bit.
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You can watch Brownstein's full Late Show episode, which also featured Hillary Clinton and Antony Bourdain, here. Hunger Makes Me A Modern Girl is out now, and we should all totally go buy it.
