Watch Bartees Strange cover Bon Iver’s “Skinny Love”

Recorded in his basement studio.

April 21, 2021

I'll never pass up an opportunity to push readers towards Bartees Strange and his album Live Forever, a gorgeous project that was rightly seated at No. 13 on our best albums of 2020 list. Your latest reminder to check out that project is Bartees's live cover of Bon Iver's song "Skinny Love," originally recorded for 2007's For Emma, Forever Ago. Damn, that title still hits, and so does the song in the hands of Bartees, who delivers his acoustic rendition for SiriusXMU from his basement music studio. "Justin Vernon low key shook my little black world in college when I heard this song," Bartees wrote on Twitter, "so this was a pleasure to do. " Check it out above via Stereogum.

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Watch Bartees Strange cover Bon Iver’s “Skinny Love”