Chapter: Absurd Yet True
In the fall of 2007, after dual breakups (a girl and his band, DeYarmond Edison) a depressed Justin Vernon make his way to a remote hunting cabin in Wisconsin that belongs to his father. He lived there alone for three months, filling his days with wood chopping and other chores around the property. Vernon wanted to heal himself after the series of breakups. He didn’t intend to write or record any music during the time, he wanted to recover from the events of the previous year. Even so, living in the cabin slowly began feeding a bold, uninhibited new musical focus for him. That cabin became the birthplace of For Emma, a lonesome recording in which Vernon discovered a gift he never knew he had until the song Flume came tumbling out of him: A very special falsetto he had only used before while singing along in cars to female singer-songwriters.
After a modest self-production of just a few hundred copies, the album was snapped up by Indiana indie label Jagjaguwar for wide release in February 2008. It became the indie label’s biggest album release ever, with over 320,000 copies sold. During Vernon’s time in the cabin, he had alone created a collection of nine ethereal, folk-music based tracks. He also formed what would later become Bon Iver. Vernon have later said in interviews that he will continue to make albums without engineers and producers because he’s capable of doing it all himself. In 2012, Bon Iver was nominated for four Grammy Awards. They won for Best new artist.
Possible Moral
Not looking for the solution was the key for Justin Vernon when finding happiness again. On top of that he wrote some pretty great music as well. When no one knows what they want, they look for things they think they need but really don’t – satisfied for a brief second, only to go back searching. But some things in life don’t need searching for, they’re already there. The thing you do need to find, is purpose and finding purpose is finding happiness.
Story from We All Need Heroes: Stories of the Brave and Foolish.
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