Photos: Bon Iver [St. Paul, MN; 01/17/08]
Bon Iver adds dates with Phosphorescent

Photos by Stacy Schwartz

Bon Iver's Justin Vernon sure likes guitars. On his debut album For Emma, Forever Ago (our 29th favorite album of 2007), guitars are pretty much the only sound you'll hear in addition to the singer/songwriter's haunted falsetto. And for concerts, he apparently brings a whole stack of them (see below).

Something else he might consider bringing a stack of: copies of the album, which Vernon self-released last year but will be re-released via Jagjaguwar on February 19. Last night at the Turf Club in St. Paul, Minnesota, the audience was clamoring for copies, but Vernon had to tell the sold out crowd he couldn't get away with distributing it just yet.

More photos and tour dates below, including a new set of dates in March with Phosphorescent.

Bon Iver:

01-18 Chicago, IL - Schubas ^
01-19 Milwaukee, WI - Mad Planet !
02-10 Eau Claire, WI - The Nucleus
02-15 Bloomington, IN - Bear's Place
02-18 Chapel Hill, NC - The Local 506
02-19 Washington, DC - Rock and Roll Hotel *
02-20 Philadelphia, PA - Johnny Brenda's *
02-22 New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom *
02-23 Brooklyn, NY - Glasslands *
02-24 Boston, MA - Middle East Upstairs *
02-25 Portland, ME - The Space Gallery *
02-26 Moncton, New Brunswick - The Manhattan *
02-27 Halifax, Nova Scotia - The Marquee Club *
02-29 Montreal, Quebec - La Sala Rosa *
03-05 Toronto, Ontario - Lee's Palace *
03-06 Cleveland, OH - The Grog Shop *
03-07 Louisville, KY - Headliners *
03-09 Knoxville, TN - The Pilot Light *
03-10 Nashville, TN - Exit/In *
03-11 Little Rock, AR - Sticky Fingerz *
03-19 San Diego, CA - Che Cafe $
03-20 Los Angeles, CA - The Echo $
03-21 Santa Barbara, CA - Muddy Waters $
03-22 Visalia, CA - Cellar Door $
03-23 San Francisco, CA - The Independent $
03-24 Portland, OR - Holocene $
03-25 Vancouver, British Columbia - Media Club $
03-26 Seattle, WA - Nectar $

^ with Illinois, the Redwalls, Wax Fang
! with Collections of Colonies of Bees
* with Black Mountain
$ with Phosphorescent