Bon Iver – 22, A Million (LP Vinyl) artist-michael-weintrob Hoochie Coochie Man

Hoochie Coochie Man

Kicking off the record with what should have been the hit of the summer that year but for the hard C in the title

and introducing young ears to the pleasure of acoustic instruments played with mastery

communal energy that defines his best work outside of Phish

a Boulder outfit that helped invent "polyethnic Cajun slamgrass" before that phrase meant anything to anyone

Bon Iver – 22, A Million (LP Vinyl) artist-michael-weintrob Hoochie Coochie ManJustin Vernon had already reshaped what a singer songwriter could sound like with his debut, but 22, A Million marked something more radical: a deliberate dismantling of the acoustic warmth that made him famous, rebuilt through layered vocoder, fragmented sampling, and Lutheran hymnody pulled apart at the seams. Recorded with collaborators including the National's Aaron Dessner, it arrived as Vernon's most overtly spiritual and formally experimental