2008-02-19 - Washington, DC, USA

Hear art-folk singer Bon Iver recorded live in concert from Washington, D.C.'s Rock and Roll Hotel. This performance originally webcast live on NPR.org Feb. 19, 2008. Bon Iver is a pseudonymn for singer-songwriter Justin Vernon. His debut CD, For Emma, Forever Ago, provides a comforting wash of gently strummed guitars set against distant atmospherics and layered harmonies that echo through the ether. Vernon wrote the songs while living in a remote cabin one winter in worthwestern Wisconsin, where he'd gone to exorcise some inner demons. For Emma, Forever Ago captures the isolation and chilly heartache of the period in which it's recorded. Bon Iver (pronounced "bohn eevair") is an intentional misspelling of "bon hiver," which means "good winter" in French.