![]() ![]() For the uninformed, Vernon wrote much of his breakthrough 2007 album For Emma, Forever Ago in his father’s hunting cabin located in the woods near his family’s Eau Claire, WI home. Somehow, it always goes back to this cabin. “Guy breaks up with his girlfriend, retreats to some mythical cabin…” “I’ve heard the story a thousand times,” my old professor joked. I was kind of surprised to hear that each year there was a new generation of me, relating their own personal insecurities through the lens of indie moodsmith Justin Vernon’s falsetto-infused Bon Iver persona. “Every semester without fail, there’s a guy who writes about Bon Iver,” he said, laughing. He still assigns the song review each semester and chuckling to himself he described the next generation of my “Layla” story. Years later, during a dinner with the professor who’d taught the class, I brought up the assignment and the song I’d reviewed. In my head, I was Derek and his pain was mine. “Layla,” of course, was the album’s undisputed masterpiece, and it made the ideal choice for my review. ![]() Between his impassioned vocals and guitar work and Duane Allman’s slide transcendence, what felt like raw, unbridled emotion oozed from my small pair of speakers and into my soul. Eric-or Derek, as it were-and I felt like kindred spirits frustrated by loneliness and unrequited love. At the time, I was obsessed with Eric Clapton, whose Derek and the Dominos recordings had fortuitously made their way onto our building’s illicit servers that spring. There were no real directions other than this. The first time I ever wrote about music was for a journalism class I took during one of my first years in college. A View of the Mountain Pass Called the Notch of the White Mountans (Crawford Notch), 1839. On top of this, Bon Iver has won 2 Grammys and been nominated for 8 more, showcasing their impact on the music industry and straying from the representation of typical norms of mainly pop/rap and dance music within modern-day pop culture.Thomas Cole. The band has released four studio albums: For Emma, Forever Ago, Bon Iver, 22, A Million and I,I. Justin Vernon wrote the record after various failed bands, illness and heartbreak, with initially solely just an acoustic guitar and his thoughts ![]() However, the depth of Vernon's lyrics has been on-going through it all, so much that it inspired my first tattoo: "Your love will be safe with me". F or Emma, Forever Ago gained critic's acclamation and has even made it into Rolling Stone's The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.Īs Bon Iver's career has lengthened, musically the band transitioned from largely soft indie-folk music to more experimental projects, turning from traditional instruments to more technological enhanced work the album 22, A Million most notably embodying the shift within their musical expression. Justin Vernon wrote the record after various failed bands, illness and heartbreak, with initially solely just an acoustic guitar and his thoughts. If you let me take you back to 2006 in a cosy cabin in the middle of Wisconsin: Bon Iver and For Emma, Forever Ago was born. ![]()
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