Justin Vernon

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Justin Vernon
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Vernon performing with Bon Iver in Gothenburg, Sweden.
Background information
Birth name Justin DeYarmond Edison Vernon
Born (1981-04-30) April 30, 1981 (age 42)
Eau Claire, Wisconsin, United States[1]
Genres Indie rock, folk, baroque pop
Occupation(s) Singer-songwriter, musician
Instruments Vocals, guitar, keyboards, banjo, bass guitar, drums, percussion, piano
Years active 1998–present
Associated acts Bon Iver, Jason Feathers, DeYarmond Edison, All Tiny Creatures, The Shouting Matches, Mount Vernon, Kanye West, Colin Stetson, Megafaun, Volcano Choir, Gayngs, James Blake, The National, The Staves, P.O.S

Justin DeYarmond Edison Vernon (born April 30, 1981) is an American multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter and producer. He is best known as the primary songwriter and frontman of indie folk band Bon Iver.[2][3][4] Vernon is also a member of the bands Volcano Choir, The Shouting Matches and Gayngs.

Early life

Vernon attended Memorial High School in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, graduating in 1999. He then attended college at the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire, and spent a semester in Ireland.[5] Vernon majored in Religious Studies and minored in Women's Studies. In an interview with Stephen Colbert on The Colbert Report, he said that he was not ready to study music.[6]

Career

Justin Vernon founded the band DeYarmond Edison while attending high school and college in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, where he still resides.[7][8] DeYarmond Edison's core consisted of Vernon, Brad and Phil Cook, and Joe Westerlund. The band saw varying line-up changes during its five years of existence.

After playing in the Eau Claire music scene, the four band mates decided to leave their longtime home and move to Raleigh, North Carolina to try their musical hand in a new place. The band released two records themselves, the first self-titled and the second titled Silent Signs[9] and an EP of unreleased material is available on their Myspace page.[10] After nearly a year in Raleigh, Vernon left for Wisconsin after a breakup with the band and a girlfriend. The remaining members of DeYarmond Edison went on to form a new band called Megafaun and remain good friends with Vernon.[11]

Vernon came to international prominence with For Emma, Forever Ago, his first album with Bon Iver.

Vernon is a part of other musical groups, including Volcano Choir, which consists of Vernon and the members of the band Collections of Colonies of Bees. In 2009 Unmap was released. The collaborative group Gayngs, which includes multiple other established artists, including Megafaun, The Rosebuds and P.O.S, released Relayted in 2010.[12] Vernon contributed to seven songs on Anaïs Mitchell's 2010 album Hadestown, based on the Greek legend Orpheus and Eurydice. He is one third of The Shouting Matches, a blues-garage rock trio, along with Laarks and Peter Wolf Crier drummer Brian Moen, and former DeYarmond Edison band mate Phil Cook. They have recorded but not yet released a 5-track EP, Mouthoil.[13] and released their debut album, Grownass Man, in 2013.[14] At The Shouting Matches' 2013 shows in Milwaukee and Minneapolis, Mouthoil CDs were available as a limited release.

Vernon agreed to let Kanye West use samples from his song "Woods" on his 2009 EP Blood Bank for West's 2010 album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy and had additional vocals on "Dark Fantasy", "Monster", "Hell Of A Life" and "Lost In The World", as well as the song "That's My Bitch" from West and Jay-Z's collaborative album Watch The Throne in 2011.[15] He was also involved in West's 2013 album Yeezus, contributing to "I Am a God", "Hold My Liquor", and "I'm In It".[16] Vernon has on several occasions served as backing vocalist for West at his live performances, notably at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in 2011 and Glastonbury Festival in 2015. In 2009, Vernon collaborated with Aaron Dessner on the song "Big Red Machine" for the AIDS benefit album Dark Was the Night produced by the Red Hot Organization.

He has produced albums for other artists, including Land of Talk's 2008 album Some Are Lakes[17] and Kathleen Edwards' 2012 album Voyageur.[18]

Bon Iver won Best New Artist and Best Alternative Album at the 2012 Grammys.[19]

On September 25, 2012, Vernon walked away from Bon Iver indefinitely, virtually putting an end to the band for the time being. When asked for reasoning, he replied, " [I'm] winding it down. I look at it like a faucet. I have to turn it off and walk away from it because so much of how that music comes together is subconscious or discovering. There's so much attention on the band, it can be distracting at times. I really feel the need to walk away from it while I still care about it. And then if I come back to it – if at all – I'll feel better about it and be renewed or something to do that."[20]

He has since played new music at the Eaux Claires festival in July 2015 in his hometown of Eau Claire, WI. Vernon curated this festival along with National member Aaron Dessner. The second annual Eaux Claires festival is scheduled for August 2016.

In 2012, Vernon began Chigliak, an imprint of Jagjaguwar, dedicated to albums that have had limited or non-commercial releases.[21]

In 2014, Jason Feathers, a collaboration with indie rapper Astronautalis, released De Oro.

Personal life

In 2011, Vernon began a relationship with Canadian singer-songwriter Kathleen Edwards.[22] The couple has since split.[23]

Discography

Solo albums

  • 2001 Home Is (as JD Vernon)
  • 2005 Self Record
  • 2006 Hazeltons

With Mount Vernon

  • 1998 We Can Look Up
  • 2000 All of Us Free

With DeYarmond Edison

  • 2004 DeYarmond Edison
  • 2005 Silent Signs
  • 2006 The Bickett Residency
  • 2006 Unreleased EP

With Bon Iver

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See also: Bon Iver discography

With Volcano Choir

With The Shouting Matches

  • 2008 Mouthoil (limited release in Milwaukee and Minneapolis, re-released in 2013)
  • 2013 Grownass Man

Other collaborations

References

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