“Justin said, ‘I’m working with this artist you may or may not know’”: Bonnie Raitt confirms that Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon contacted her personally when he and Charli XCX wanted to sample Nick Of Time on their Brat remix track

Charli XCX, Bonnie Raitt and Justin Vernon.

Bon Iver’s appearance on Charli XCX’s Brat And It’s Completely Different But Also Still Brat may have been a bit of a surprise, but the presence of a few Bonnie Raitt samples on the new version of I Think About It All The Time was even more eyebrow-raising.

There they are, though: vocal lines (and possibly other bits) from Raitt’s 1989 hit Nick Of Time are scattered throughout the song, and it turns out that it was Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon himself who helped to make it happen.