Bon Iver - "Blindsided"

I'm excited to get to share Bon Iver with you. This song was the first of theirs that I heard, and it was enough to get me hooked. I've been listening to them pretty heavily for the past two months now. Justin Vernon, the lead singer and songwriter, actually has a rather deep speaking voice...his falsetto technique was something of an experiment for him that really took off. Sometimes he uses it, sometimes not, and sometimes - like with this track - you'll hear him singing a falsetto line and double tracking it an octave down. This song is on the album "For Emma, Forever Ago", and overall the album is quite good. It was written over the course of a winter in which Justin holed up by himself in his father's cabin in the woods of northern Wisconsin. The name Bon Iver, by the way, is derived from the french bon hiver which means good winter. I'll be sharing more from Bon Iver in the coming months, but for now, I'd like you to sit back and enjoy this one.