fredag 18 Sep 2009, 13:01

Written by Sharon Van Halen (or singer Sharon Van Etten)
http://sharonvanhalen.blogspot.com/

BON IVER CANNOT PRONOUNCE "BON IVER"

Deep in the woods of Wisconsin, a lone bearded man pauses from his morning task of splitting wood to answer a few questions from an intrepid reporter. "Sheeooooot!" Justin Vernon exclaimed, wiping an oily rag over his sweaty forehead, "I din't know that name would be stickin' and all!" Vernon, who has been honored as the latest talented indie rock troubadour by thousands of blogs and comment boards, calls out to his dog, named "Dog", to settle down as he rolls himself a cigarette. "I done write the name of the band on my arm just likes I planned on. My name was all gonna be 'Bone Ivory' ya know, but then I wiped my sweat and the words got all jumbled up. Now I got to say I am in a band that I don't even know what how to say the name of!" At that point, Vernon watched Dog chase a varmint up a tree, then went back to his wood choppin'.