Biography

Love sickness, loneliness and depression: these are the success ingredients of tormented musicians who are longing for a listening ear from a wide audience. One of these musicians is Justin Vernon, who succeeded in channelling the loss of both his girlfriend and his band, and the battle with glandular fever by retreating to his father’s mountain log cabin in North Wisconsin for 3 months. Originally it wasn’t Vernon’s intention to make a record, let alone release it. But in the isolation of the mountain cabin the masterly ‘For Emma, Forever Ago’ gradually took shape. Especially the falsetto voices, full of emotion, recorded on separate tracks, lend this record far-above-average quality. Shivers down your spine and goose pimples!

Origin

United States (Michigan)

Genre

Folk, Indie

Performed at Pukkelpop in

2009

Website

http://www.boniver.org/

Social media

• http://www.myspace.com/boniver
• http://www.last.fm/music/Bon+Iver