Hard to Find a Friend Presents : The Backstage Sessions Featuring : Bon Iver
Exit / In : Nashville, TN
I wasn’t sure how Bon Iver’s wonderful new record, For Emma, Forever Ago (Jagjaguwar), would translate to a live setting. The record is intimate, sure, but it’s also filled with intricate layers of huge harmonies and has an incredible sense of dynamics that I was nervous would be ill-represented by a three-man band. Luckily, my fears were completely unfounded, the show was amazing. But before all that went down, we had the pleasure of hanging out and recording a few songs backstage for your eyes and ears.
For Emma, Forever Ago is available now via Jagjaguwar. It can, and should be, purchased here.
A note from the editor: The friendly folks at Jagjaguwar have requested we not make any of these files available for download, rather only for stream. This, of course makes us a bit sad since that is sort of our ethos for Backstage Sessions: listen, enjoy, stick A/V on device, listen and watch over and over again, but we are happy to comply with their wishes, and ask you do to. That is to say, please don’t make mp3’s to redistribute of these performances.
There are no plans for any future sessions to be stream-only, but if the copyright owner says so, we gotta do it! Thank you for reading, and thank you to Jagujaguwar for letting us do this!
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March 13, 2008 at 11:59 pm |
streaming only = lame = jagjaguwar
btw-i already bought the cd, why you ask? because i DOWNLOADED a couple tracks here.
March 14, 2008 at 12:42 am |
That is kind of lame, but these videos on the other hand are kind of, nay, VERY awesome! 🙂
March 14, 2008 at 12:52 am |
Thank you, IHTFAF. These songs are so beautiful I want to take them with me and listen to them all day for the next two weeks. But I can’t.
March 14, 2008 at 4:44 pm |
Great performance, thanks!
It makes me very sad that record labels still think that doing something like allowing streaming but blocking downloads is a good idea that benefits anyone.
I also already own the album, because I heard and downloaded a few tracks previously.
March 15, 2008 at 5:01 am |
This is a fantastic thing you are doing Caleb, many thanks for all the time and effort that surely goes into organising this! Your work is appreciated.
March 16, 2008 at 3:31 pm |
good work!
March 17, 2008 at 1:09 am |
Nice! Creature Fear sounds sooooooooo good.
March 22, 2008 at 6:58 am |
amazing. not gonna lie, this might be the only album, in my music buying history, that ive purchased twice. first as a CD, the handmade originals at CMJ and then the vinyl. dude has got it going on.
March 27, 2008 at 5:23 pm |
Thanks jagjaguwar… You totally redeemed yourself. way to step it up!
BTW-If you guys haven’t seen it, ABC did an interview with justin it can be found here:
http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=4484509&affil=kgtv