Minnesota Remembers Vic Chesnutt is a new memorial tribute album that features an impressive turnout or artists, each performing Vic Chesnutt classics. Contributors include Dan Wilson, Haley Bonar, Trampled by Turles' Dave Simonett, Charlie Parr, Ben Weaver, Wendy Lewis, JoAnna James, Alpha Consumer, Luke Redfield and more. Minnesota nonprofit organization Rock the Cause just released the compilation on its own label on November 8, 2011, in partnership with The…

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Cowboy Junkies

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The Cowboy Junkies have been a consistently perplexing source of music for over two decades. From album to album, the music finds its breath in the shadows of rock, folk, blues, post-punk, alt-country, and pop. It’s an endlessly interesting catalog that explores new textures and themes while somehow always sounding like the same band that cut a low-fidelity collection of blues covers in their garage in…

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We've added a page for lyrics on the website radiofreesongclub.com.

Makes it's own strange poetry, all those different writers.

Radio Free Song Club (radiofreesongclub.com) is a small group of veteran songwriters writing on deadline. Every month they each write and record a song and send it, in varying degrees of completion, to Nicholas Hill who presents them along with live and phone conversations, in studio performances, and special guests. The writers are:



Victoria Williams

Freakwater

Freedy Johnston

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I just heard of Vic Chestnutt's death...
Words are so heavy right now they just break with the heart.
It is a terrible loss, my thoughts and prayers are with his friends and family.
I can only hope his soul has found peace...he will be missed.
Scott M. Anderson (Windsor, New York)

It has been confirmed by the New York Times that Vic Chesnutt died Friday afternoon, at age 45, due to an apparent overdose of muscle relaxants.



I had posted here that he was in a coma on Thursday morning after reading the information on a forum on Kristen Hersh's website, and updated the post late Thursday night after reading reports that he had passed away. That information turned out to be erroneous… Continue