Awhile back, I wrote about the new Bon Iver album and the track "Calgary." Soon after, that track was posted as the lead track from the album and I posted it to Facebook. I did it with the expectation that it might be of interest to my music loving friends and I kind of figured everyone else would ignore it as "Jeff and his weird music" interests. Then, both my mother and mother-in-law commented to me that they enjoyed the track, which I was pleased, although a little surprised. Now the whole album is streaming over at NPR. At work today I listened but again, I did not expect others to like Bon Iver, so I listened with the door mostly closed, lest my coworkers hear it and think it (or me) weird. Maybe I'm selling everyone a little short? Maybe Bon Iver would be more popular if more of us shared his music? And maybe there's something to the whole music geek criticism that we protect our little treasures and pretend that they are too good for the masses.
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