Bon Iver: Good Winter

In the winter of 2006, Justin Vernon – aka Bon Iver – picked up a guitar, a laptop and some basic recording equipment and retreated to a remote cabin in the woods of Wisconsin to lick his wounds. The story of how he recorded alt-folk classic For Emma, Forever Ago has become the stuff of musical myth.

He made it from the woods to international fame in just a few years but, behind the ‘overnight’ suc...