My friend really likes Bon Iver! But iv'e never even heard about them. do you know anything about them?
Bon Iver
Bon Iver () is an American indie folk band founded in 2006 by singer-songwriter Justin Vernon. The name "Bon Iver" derives from the French phrase "bon hiver" () ("good winter"), taken from a greeting on "Northern Exposure".
Vernon released Bon Iver's debut album, "For Emma, Forever Ago," independently in July 2007. The majority of that album was recorded while Vernon spent three months isolated in a cabin in northwestern Wisconsin. The
Your blood is on those tracks, and you do the best you can. They threw dust in my face. To them the music was too avant-garde. They said, ‘We really don’t know what to do with this. We’ve never heard anything like this before.’ They didn’t even know what Cajun music was."
Reported Kurt Loder of "Rolling Stone":
Despite DeVille's indisputable chops, Capitol was less than elated when he elected to cut "Le Chat Bleu"