Vic Chesnutt At The Cut Vinyl LP + CD + Poster 2009
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Vic Chesnutt At The Cut Vinyl LP + CD + Poster 2009
While numerous artists can produce convincing stories of alienation, guilt, remorse, self-effacing misery, and overall heartbreak through song, few, if any, accomplish the talk with the same bitter pleasure, honesty, left-handed wit, or charm of songwriter and Athens, Georgia, resident Vic Chesnutt. Singing in an unsteady voice and strumming simple chords on an acoustic guitar from his wheelchair (a confinement that resulted from a paralyzing car accident), Chesnutt mastered the skill of turning predictable emotions inside out by using sublime and intentionally unpolished lyrics. A colorful idealist and storyteller as well, Chesnutt was not afraid to confront his own shortcomings, as well as the world's in general, through his music. His poignant, despairing and mordant yet humorous poetry led reviewers to compare his lyrics to southern author Flannery O'Connor. "In a bleak corrosion of Chesnutt's tender idealism," Ira A. Robbins asserted in the Trouser Press Guide to `90s Rock, "a highly literate mind in a ruined body becomes a willful primitive with a ferocious and highly developed sense of irony. His skilled songwriting burns with reality's pain while glowing with imagination." Thanks in a large part to the encouragement and support of one famous fan and frequent producer, Michael Stipe of the Athens-based band R.E.M., who had been taken by Chesnutt's music since the early 1980s, the songwriter's popularity continued to broaden throughout the following decade.
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