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Music Video Saturday
By Ned | February 23, 2008
Because it looks like this is becoming a regular thing. This week, it’s up and comer Bon Iver (pronounced like Bonne Hiver).
The album has an incredible backstory, which I’ll just quote at length from the AV Club article that turned me onto this music:
Singer-songwriter Vernon holed up in his father’s cabin in northwestern Wisconsin for several months after a series of personal setbacks, including breakups with his band and girlfriend, and a lingering bout with mononucleosis that attacked his liver and kept him in bed for three months. Vernon whiled away the days recording lonely folk songs, radically altering the way he approached songwriting and singing, and subsequently producing a hauntingly beautiful record far removed from his previous work.
Holy crap, right? And if you look at how he’s dressed in the video, I don’t think our sad acoustic friend ever truly left the woodland cabin. Good stuff.
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