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	New Georgia Encyclopedia: Vic Chesnutt (b. 1964)
		Athens singer-songwriter Vic Chesnutt is at the forefront of the contemporary folk rock movement in America.
		Chesnutt was born January 1, 1964, in Jacksonville, Florida, and raised in Zebulon, Georgia.
		Chesnutt was exposed to an even larger audience in 1996, with the release of Sweet Relief II: Gravity of the Situation—The Songs of Vic Chesnutt.
	www.georgiaencyclopedia.org /nge/Article.jsp?path=/TheArts/Music/RockandPop/IndividualArtistsandMusicalGroup-3&id=h-968 (844 words)

	Vic Chesnutt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Chesnutt songwriting style has it's roots is poetry and poetic forms of expression.
		Chesnutt is often praised for his unique phrasing, in which he often draws out individual syllables for unusually long periods during a song.
		Chesnutt is also a self-confessed shoplifter, a topic he has sung about and referred to in interviews.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vic_Chesnutt (718 words)

	Ink 19 :: Vic Chesnutt
		Vic Chesnutt's songs don't get played much on mainstream radio, and his face won't be on MTV anytime soon -- but his radio-friendly, photogenic superstar-peers contend that he's one of the best songwriters in the country.
		But the comparisons to Bragg and Stipe stop there, for Chesnutt is about as original a songwriter to be found, a man whose front-porch, barrel-aged voice -- a true voice of the South -- sings with a subtle power and, alternately, a sublime, gentle vulnerability that rivets his listeners to their seats.
		Chesnutt went back to gazing out of the window at the horses and other livestock dotting the highway-bordering pastureland; and I settled back in my chair to listen to his disc for the fourth time that day.
	www.ink19.com /issues/june2003/interviews/vicChesnutt.html (1088 words)

	Vic Chesnutt: Merriment [with Mr. & Mrs. Keneipp]: Pitchfork Record Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Chesnutt was happily bamboozled into singing and scribing words to the already-extant music composed by Backburner Records honchos Kelly and Nikki Keneipp.
		Chesnutt doesn't write songs, he directs and stars in film shorts: brief vignettes of wintry, slow-motion nativities radiating holiness and tableau dioramas of circus train wrecks.
		Vic doesn't write songs, he paints crude, unnerving folk art-- scenes like the album cover in which a smirking misshapen man with a bandaged head stands in the middle of a dirt country lane holding 11 roses and a homemade sign.
	www.pitchforkmedia.com /article/record_review/16144/Vic_Chesnutt_Merriment_with_Mr_and_Mrs_Keneipp (529 words)

	MetroActive Music \| Vic Chesnutt
		Take Vic Chesnutt, who is a member of a minority himself, one that is seldom represented in rock and roll.
		Chesnutt was discovered by R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe and recorded for the Stipe-affiliated label Texas Hotel before gaining wider notice.
		Vic Chesnutt's songs don't shy from life's tragedies, but his very existence is a blow against the harshness of reality.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/sonoma/12.17.98/chesnutt-9850.html (716 words)

	Dave Fanning interviews Vic Chesnutt
		Vic: Oh sure, sure well you know I dig that, you know, the most but I’d already known some of that, like the clash and stuff like that, it was more like the kinda you know the speedy, the speedier like you know things I found around that time you know 1984..
		Vic: Well I was contemplating suicide the day I had my crash, I contemplated suicide today about twenty forty times, you know, it's a constant in my life, always has been, always will be, that's the way I am, some people are like that..
		Vic: I mean, I like, I wanted to be a stand-up comedian when I was about 14 or whatever but then I kinda got shanghaied by the bohemian artsy ways and kinda you know went that way instead.
	vicchesnutt.cupantae.com /davefanninginterview.html (1882 words)

	Metroactive Music \| Vic Chesnutt
		Is the Musician Happy?: Vic Chesnutt is prone to flights of fancy and will wander off into a sublime solo when he should be sticking to the key riff.
		Vic relishes his role as the devil-child biting into the forbidden fruit and waiting for all hell to come down.
		For Vic, this has meant many things, not the least of which is the simple childhood dream of being a rock star.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/02.06.97/vic-chestnutt-9706.html (1218 words)

	NPR : Vic Chesnutt, Live in Studio 4A
		Born and raised in rural Georgia, Chesnutt writes intimate, Southern-flavored story songs that are at once crude and elegant; beautiful and gruesome; joyful and sad.
		Others are turned off by Chesnutt's unpredictable live performances, famously ruined in the past by his chronic bouts with depression, anxiety and alcohol abuse.
		Chesnutt's music is, in his own words, "alarmingly personal, and maybe even a bit off-putting." But he also writes a lot of fiction.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=1398693 (479 words)

	TrouserPress.com :: Vic Chesnutt
		In the bleak corrosion of Chesnutt's tender idealism, a highly literate mind in a ruined body becomes a willful primitive with a ferocious and highly developed sense of irony.
		Chesnutt's singing on "my second squirt" is concomitantly more assured and accomplished, which is about all that keeps the naked emotions surfacing in his songs from overwhelming him.
		Chesnutt settles for cryptic wordplay on "Lucinda Williams," "Sponge" and "Latent/Blatant." Elsewhere, Vic sends his arrows flying with pinpoint accuracy.
	www.trouserpress.com /entry.php?a=vic_chesnutt (795 words)

	Berube Communications (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Vic was born in 1964 in Jacksonville, FL and was raised in Zebulon, GA. He loved music from an early age and, in fact, started writing songs when he was only five years old.
		Vic has made 10 albums to date as well as 2 albums in collaboration with Widespread Panic under the name ‘Brute.’; He was the subject of a documentary in 1992 entitled “Speed Racer” directed by noted indie filmmaker Peter Sillen.
		Vic continues to tour extensively all over the world and has shared stages with the likes of R.E.M., Laura Nyro, Patti Smith, Lou Reed, John Cale, Mo Tucker, The Jayhawks, Allen Toussaint, P.J. Harvey, Wilco, Billy Swan, Giant Sand, Calexico and The Sadies.
	www.berubecommunications.com /html/vicchesnutt.html (983 words)

	Supernatural: The Vic Chesnutt Re-issues - PopMatters Music Review
		July, 1999: Vic Chesnutt is playing the Iron Horse in Northampton, Massachusetts, taking an occasional request from the peanut gallery.
		It has become one of the iconic Vic Chesnutt songs in a body of work that offers almost nothing but.
		Vic Chesnutt's third album, Drunk, was recorded before his second, West of Rome, was even released.
	www.popmatters.com /music/reviews/c/chesnuttvic-reissues2004.shtml (754 words)

	Ink 19 :: Vic Chesnutt and Mr. And Mrs. Keneipp
		Although Merriment is credited to Vic Chesnutt and the Keneipps, it is barely a departure from Chesnutt's former solo work.
		With all its idiosyncrasies and ticks, Chesnutt and company are sometimes reminiscent of mid-'60s Willie Nelson and, at other times, wind up sounding like one of Oldham's incarnations.
		Chesnutt's lyrics run the surrealist gauntlet, sounding like a late-night exchange between Breton and Dali.
	www.ink19.com /issues/december2000/wetInk/musicC/vicChesnuttMrMrs.html (268 words)

	Vic Chesnutt - Music Downloads - Online
		Bio: Though Michael Stipe had been a fan of Vic Chesnutt since the late '80s, producing his first two full-lengths, it took the Sweet Relief Two tribute album to make a star of him in mid-1996.
		A documentary video of Chesnutt's life called Speed Racer was produced and directed by Peter Sillen in 1991, and has aired on PBS.
		In 2003, Chesnutt struck a deal with the roots rock-oriented New West label, who released his album Silver Lake in 2003.
	musicstore.connect.com /artist/104/199/8/1041998.html (340 words)

	Vic Chesnutt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Fans of folky Georgia singer/songwriter Vic Chesnutt's early output are likely to be disappointed by this lackluster collaboration with the 12-piece Nashville-based avant-country ensemble Lambchop.
		Chesnutt's got a unique voice and a down-home style that's come through well on previous, more acoustic-based albums.
		But the disc's biggest problem is its lack of focus: though a couple of tracks showcase Chesnutt's talent for broken-spirited ruminations on personal failures, elsewhere he and Lambchop attempt everything from '60s pop and RandB to artsy atmospheric folk.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /archive/music/99/01/07/OTR/VIC_CHESNUTT.html (161 words)

	thrustCHAT: Vic Chesnutt!!! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		VIC: No, I was very depressed at the time and we weren't making a record as such.
		VIC: I wrote a novel and a half a novel, and they were bad.
		VIC: He was there in the studio when I recorded it.
	members.tripod.com /~thrust_2/vic-chesnutt.html (1746 words)

	VH1.com : Vic Chesnutt : Vic Chesnutt Boils Down His Sound Onstage - Urge Music Downloads
		Vic Chesnutt went back and forth between the piano and guitar at Friday night's show.
		CHICAGO -- If every Vic Chesnutt melody and lyric could be dumped into one pot and boiled down to their collective essence, it might well be this: Savor the simple pleasures.
		Chesnutt didn't perform any of his new material until the seventh song.
	www.vh1.com /artists/news/513472/04121999/chesnutt_vic.jhtml (685 words)

	Amazon.com: The Salesman and Bernadette: Music: Vic Chesnutt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Vic Chesnutt's sweet and croony vocals hover delicately above the ethereal and sparse instrumentation provided by the Lambchop collective to tell the story of a sad and tender misbegotten romance.
		For this release, Chesnutt enlisted the backing talents of the 12-piece band Lambchop, who are no strangers to the country and soul that Salesman peddles.
		Vic Chestnut might have ended up as a wheelchair bound, bible thumper spouting hellfire and brimstone, but instead we get a man who can play a convincing role as a contemplative drunk that can pen a damn good song.
	www.amazon.com /Salesman-Bernadette-Vic-Chesnutt/dp/B00000DLVY (1152 words)

	Vic Chesnutt: by Michael Bertin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		I was fighting it." In the middle of his last tour, Vic Chesnutt ditched his band, fled across several state lines, filled his pockets with rocks, parked himself beside a motel pool, and for a week, contemplated suicide.
		And like the young female protagonist in the Velvet Underground song, Vic Chesnutt's life was saved by rock and roll.
		But maybe it's apropos for Chesnutt, who on cursory inspection is a curiosity himself.
	www.paralinks.net /musicians/VICCHESNUTT.HTML (400 words)

	Splendid E-zine reviews: Vic Chesnutt
		Athens, Georgia songwriter extraordinaire Vic Chesnutt is back with a new barrage of ditties so catchy you'll forget they're about stomped hearts.
		For a decade plus, Chesnutt has toured with folks such as Wilco and Victoria Williams and has even been the subject of a critically acclaimed documentary, Speed Racer.
		Chesnutt's penchant for turning a line and pairing up the strangest images cuts through here.
	www.splendidezine.com /reviews/may-14-01/vic.html (317 words)

	The History of Rock Music. Vic Chesnutt: biography, discography, reviews, links
		Georgia's Vic Chesnutt, confined to a wheelchair, shared with Smog the honor of having pioneered the style.
		Chesnutt leaves behind his southern gothic for The Salesman & Bernadette (Capricorn, 1998), by far his most upbeat album ever, and, alas, also his most derivative (at times, it sounds like Chesnutt is mainly mocking southern music).
		Lambchop's arrangements are a mixed blessing, as they detract from the quintessential Chesnutt atmosphere (bittersweet, humurous, populist) but augment the sonic experience.
	www.scaruffi.com /vol5/chestnut.html (741 words)

	Vic Chesnutt
		When Athens son Vic Chesnutt prepared to roll out his eleventh recording since his 1990 debut, he had 120 songs.
		When Vic and the New West Records head heard what producer Mark Howard was up to with Lucinda Williams at Paramour Studios in a mansion on the hill, they jumped on his dance card.
		Born in Florida, Chesnutt's family moved to GA in his childhood, where he had a churchy upbringing and trapped rabbits and the like.
	www.puremusic.com /vic.html (407 words)

	Rolling Stone : VIC CHESNUTT
		Still, while the Chesnutt of old might have punished the audience for his scheduling conflict, he delivered a solid, crowd-pleasing mix of old and new material.
		Though Chesnutt seemed distant in some ways -- he mostly kept his eyes downcast -- he established intimacy with the crowd by playing personal, unflinching songs that don't leave people anywhere to hide.
		Chesnutt's only self-indulgence during the show was tinkering with a tiny keyboard and tape recorder.
	www.rollingstone.com /news/story/5926135/vic_chesnutt (390 words)

	In Music We Trust - Vic Chesnutt: Silver Lake (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.virginia.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		One night about a decade ago, Vic Chesnutt played a solo acoustic show at the 40 Watt, in his hometown of Athens, Georgia.
		It's a credo that has served Chesnutt well through the years, paying off handsomely yet again on his ninth album, "Silver Lake," so named for the area of Los Angeles in which it was recorded and mixed in an inspired fortnight.
		Chesnutt slyly leaves undetermined whether the object of the narrator's desire welcomes or even knows about the crush.
	www.inmusicwetrust.com.cob-web.org:8888 /articles/60r59.html (598 words)

	Warped Reality: The Little Songs of Vic Chesnutt (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.virginia.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Unknown and as yet unrecorded, Vic Chesnutt performed late in the morning, carried up the stage steps in his unwieldy chair by a pair of grunting stagehands, who wheeled him to the microphone and put his battered guitar in his stricken hands.
		I had not forgotten Vic from that day in the pasture, that ridiculous little man with his ridiculous little songs.
		My brother-in-law called Vic’s lyrics “shallow,” and I never forgave him for it (it seemed an especially grievous transgression on his part, considering his love for the ethereal insipidness of the Cocteau Twins).
	www.warpedrealitymagazine.com.cob-web.org:8888 /2006/02/the_little_songs_of_vic_chesnu.html (1257 words)

	Vic Chesnutt: Ghetto Bells (2005): Reviews
		This sounds like the record Vic Chesnutt's been waiting his entire life to make.
		Chesnutt and his collaborators don't make that level of attention easy, but they do make it worthwhile.
		Where Chesnutt has long been thought of as the banjo-on-his-knee godfather of freak-folk, this record shows his skewed vision is beginning to radiate far from its nearly-naked, southern gothic roots.
	www.metacritic.com /music/artists/chesnuttvic/ghettobells (345 words)

	Rolling Stone : Vic Chesnutt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The stage was set for minor drama as Vic Chesnutt spun his wheelchair around to face the audience staring up at him from the oak pews of St. Ann's Church.
		After an intermission, during which he invited the crowd to "take a wizz," Chesnutt asked for requests and listened for "contenders" in the attendant din of shout-outs.
		All were good, but they exposed the one weakness of the performance: the fact that Chesnutt dwelled on slow songs with no appreciable changes in tempo.
	www.rollingstone.com /news/story/5923979/vic_chesnutt (551 words)

	Vic Chesnutt: Is the Actor Happy? - PopMatters Music Review
		Chesnutt's trademark nylon string guitars are washed in reverb, giving the album a lush, liquid feel.
		I've seen Chesnutt stop to burp mid-song during a live set, and heard him sing of a man in love with his dog.
		For all the literary depth, melodic strength, and honest performances included here, it's essential to know that Chesnutt's songs are equal parts silly and serious, heartbreaking and hilarious.
	www.popmatters.com /music/reviews/c/chesnuttvic-istheactor2004.shtml (1154 words)

	Vic Chesnutt on New West Records
		Prolific, profound, and ever full of potty-mouthed piss-and-vinegar - Vic Chesnutt is Prometheus in a wheelchair with a battered guitar – a freak-folk trailblazer, spilling his heart and soul and spleen into the microphone, with a sly drawl, dripping humid, Southern gothic imagery in calamitous, sometimes comic songs worthy of a Greek tragedy.
		Vic has made 10 albums to date as well as 2 albums in collaboration with Widespread Panic under the name ‘Brute.’ He was the subject of a documentary in 1992 entitled “Speed Racer” directed by noted indie filmmaker Peter Sillen.
		Vic Chesnutt - 9 of 10 on Popmatters
	www.newwestrecords.com /vicchesnutt.php (885 words)

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