NPR streamed a Webcast of the Black Mountain/Bon Iver show Tuesday night in Washington D.C. By Wednesday, a podcast of the Bon Iver set was available.
It’s great timing because I just picked up the newly released Bon Iver record, For Emma, Forever Ago (at eMusic on Jagjaguwar). Well, I know it’s not exactly new seeing as how Justin Vernon self-released it last year, but it’s new to me because I didn’t give it a whirl until just this week. And I’m growing obsessed.
I’m sure all the five-dollar adjectives have been used to describe this one, so I won’t even try. It’s music that moves you, for sure. And I’ve only been able to give it my partial attention. It sounds like a record written that could have been written in the cold, isolated woods of Wisconsin … oh, wait. It was.
Here’s Skinny Love from the NPR Webcast. Listen to the full performance here.
Bon Iver | Skinny Love (live in D.C.)- Bon Iver | Skinny Love (album version)
And here’s Vernon performing Flume at 89.3 The Current:
Veron also answered some questions for Muzzle of Bees and My Old Kentucky Blog last year.
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Pingback by In Which The Man Known As Bon Iver Is A Lunar Eclipse « This Recording 02.21.08 @ 8:08 amThanks for this live version. The album version kills me: as I wrote, it feels like it scrapes something loose inside. but there are some lyrics that i cannot tell at all what he’s saying so this live version will assumedly help me with that. thanks!
Comment by heather 02.21.08 @ 8:55 am
H, lyrics can be found on CD booklet
K, You can download the whole show at NPR or iTunes. As well, iTunes has a bonus track not avail on eMusic or the CD… and fyi, Justin is playin down in Tucson March 19.
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