Bon Iver - Skinny Love

Slowly, slowly, this quiet tune builds with emotion, just like love...

Unless you hide away from mainstream things, like David Letterman and Grey's Anatomy, you've probably heard this band before. This song, especially. It's Bon Iver's most famous single, and it deserves your recognition! It took about year to gain popularity, and a re-recording from the original, but it's in your head and on your radar - a pop hit without the notoriety...

Bon Iver began one wintry night in Wisconsin. Following the breakup of his previous band, an end to a relationship and a serious bout with mononucleosis, founding member, Justin Vernon sat down to watch a marathon of Northern Exposure. Sucked into a stupor of recuperation through other art forms, Vernon found his inspiration, in a line of the chilling programming. In one episode of Northern Exposure, there experience the first snowfall of the year. As the characters leave the indoors to embrace this new scene, they depart with the French phrase of "bonne hiver" (good winter). Luckily, Vernon missed the silent "ne" and "h," and had created his new musical alter-ego.

That winter, Vernon recorded Bon Iver's first album, For Emma,Forever Ago on his own in northern Wisconsin. Since then, he has added fellow artists: Michael Noyce, Sean Carey, and Matthew McCaughan. These musicians join him live, which leads to the (mis)understanding that the Bon Iver is merely one man...