Bartees Strange has covered Bon Iver’s enduring hit ‘Skinny Love’, taken from the latter’s 2008 album ‘For Emma, Forever Ago’.Strange stays true to the song’s sparse arrangement in this performance on SiriusXMU, where he also played tracks from his own album ‘Live Forever’, which arrived last year and landed on NME‘s best debut albums of 2020 list.Watch his performance below.Bartees Strange discussed his decision to cover Bon Iver on social media. “I just fucking love Justin Vernon so when they said I could do this one I was like hell yeah,” he said on Instagram. “I always try to do cool arrangements of things but this one is just so good on its own.
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