Four winters ago, Justin Vernon retreated to his father’s secluded cabin in northern Wisconsin, purging his sorrow through a falsetto that no one would probably ever hear. He spent three brutally cold months alone, piecing songs together using antiquated recording equipment. “It feels good not to be there,” Vernon says now. “But I feel proud that I had to go through some of that stuff.”
Three winters later, Vernon found himself in another confined space, but no longer alone. He was at Avex Honolulu Studios on the Hawaiian island of Oahu, where Kanye West was recording in early 2010. He shared a room the size of a closet with Miami rap star Rick Ross and helped construct “Monster,” perhaps 2010′s strongest hip-hop posse cut (it peaked at No. 18 on the Billboard Hot 100), while smoking, according to Ross, “some of the best weed the world has to offer.”
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Nice to see Bon getting some shine.