Vic Chesnutt was the real deal, a man who lived for music and who tirelessly deployed his impish, surly, witty, unflinching perspective in hundreds of songs featuring brilliantly unique wordsmithery and a profound playfulness that thumbed its nose at a life of seriously hard knocks. Collaborator of Michael Stipe, Widespread Panic, Lambchop, Bill Frisell, Jonathan Richman, Elf Power & Mt Zion. ... more