As 2017 begins, the state of the music industry is in as much flux has it has been in years. With a push from the Recording Academy, musicians have taken their fight for fair compensation to the halls of Congress. […]
As 2017 begins, the state of the music industry is in as much flux has it has been in years. With a push from the Recording Academy, musicians have taken their fight for fair compensation to the halls of Congress. […]
Vic Chesnutt has always had a good ear for collaborators, from Michael Stipe to Bill Frisell. North Star Deserter finds him in Montreal working with his most unlikely crew of players yet: Punk scenester/photographer Jem Cohen arranged sessions involving members […]
Fate has been good to me You may not understand how I can be thankful to be where I am To be where I am. — Vic Chesnutt, “Ignorant People” Vic Chesnutt wheels himself into the room, gliding over the […]
If his songwriter peers were in charge of the music industry, Vic Chesnutt would no doubt be a major star. Beloved and championed by artists more commercially successful than he, the Athens, Georgia, artist boasts a body of work that […]
Over a recording career that dates to 1990 and now spans nine full-length albums, the gleeful gadfly of Athens has proven himself both a songwriter of immense talent and a slave to a particularly restive muse. These traits have yielded […]
“I just want to be Aaron Neville,” deadpanned Vic Chesnutt, the consummate wag, on “Sad Peter Pan”, a song from his 1995 album Is the Actor Happy? Here, one suspected, was Chesnutt — a quirky cracker whose creaky warble is […]
Where earlier albums have seemed slightly disjointed, Vic Chesnutts latest, Is the Actor Happy?, shows a new maturity and musical coherence. Although he says he just wants to be Aaron Neville, his wish has not yet come true, and lucky […]
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