{"title":"Vic Chesnutt","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVic Chesnutt was a singer-songwriter from Athens, Georgia. Despite being paralyzed in a car accident at age 18, he continued to pursue his passion for music and performed in a wheelchair. His talent caught the attention of Michael Stipe, who produced his first two albums. Chesnutt gained wider recognition with the release of a tribute album featuring covers of his songs by famous musicians such as Garbage, Smashing Pumpkins, Madonna, R.E.M., and Live. He collaborated with various artists including Lambchop, Widespread Panic (as Brute), Elf Power, Bill Frisell, Guy Picciotto, and members of Fugazi.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTragically, on December 25th, 2009, Chesnutt passed away due to an overdose of muscle relaxants after being in a coma at an Athens hospital.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSimilar Artists: Giant Sand, Songs: Ohia (Jason Molina), Howe Gelb (Giant Sand), Magnolia Electric Co., Lambchop (Kurt Wagner), Bonnie Prince Billy (Will Oldham), Micah P. Hinson,\nWillard Grant Conspiracy (Robert Fisher), Richmond Fontaine,\nSmog (Bill Callahan),\nStuart A. Staples (Tindersticks),\nMark Kozelek\n(Califone \/ Red House Painters \/ Sun Kil Moon),\nRichard Buckner,\nSpain\n(Josh Haden),\nAmerican Music Club\n(Mark E\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"is-the-actor-happy","title":"Is The Actor Happy?","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIs The Actor Happy? \u003c\/i\u003eis a reissue of the 1995 concept album about playing live and is typically packed with smart self-depracation ('i'm a reluctant rebel \/ i was born to be Aaron Neville'). Less typically - following as it does the stark and aptly ulcerous \u003ci\u003eDrunk \u003c\/i\u003e- this is a chipper old set, fleshed out with arresting pop hooks and country curlicues, while being concerned with relatively life-affirming things like nipples. Now includes six previously unreleased tracks including a collaboration with Lambchop.\u0026lt;\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New West Records","offers":[{"title":"Gold | LP | x2","offer_id":50383563161931,"sku":"1007286","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/ee703a04-04c1-4304-97b2-85c1f5dbc1a4_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726272798"},{"product_id":"north-star-deserter","title":"North Star Deserter","description":"\u003cp\u003ethe broad cast of players - all seven members of thee silver mt. zion memorial orchestra and tra-la-la band, along with guy picciotto (fugazi), bruce cawdron (godspeed you! black emperor) plus members of hanged up and frankie sparo amongst others - offered influences and approaches to vic's music that yielded a record unlike any other in his substantial discography. recorded over the winter of 2006-2007, at one of the last sessions to take place at the original hotel2tango location in montreal (the studio moved in spring 2007), we believe 'north star deserter' is the very best album vic chesnutt has yet made (while humbly acknowledging the boldness of such a statement). the songs on 'north star deserter' are some of the most bracing and intense we've ever heard from him: macabre and fearless, playful and funny, at times deeply personal and at others, incongruously hopeful. stripped-down songs like 'warm', 'rustic city fathers', 'over' and 'marathon' are juxtaposed with explosive rockers like 'everything i say' and 'debriefing', while 'glossolalia' and 'you are never alone' feature wonderful arrangements and group singing. double 180 gram vinyl with artwork by michael ackerman and jem cohen.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"No Label","offers":[{"title":"LP | x2","offer_id":50389248409931,"sku":"289933","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50389248803147,"sku":"289934","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/179dc645-eac2-494a-99d9-978cf031578c_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726356211"},{"product_id":"ghetto-bells","title":"Ghetto Bells","description":"\u003cp\u003eVic’s 2005 release of \u003ci\u003eGhetto Bells\u003c\/i\u003e on double 180 Gram Vinyl with three bonus tracks. \u003ci\u003eGhetto Bells\u003c\/i\u003e matches the poetic power of his words with some of the most elegantly simpatico backing he's ever been blessed with, including jazz icon Bill Frisell on guitars, legendary writer, arranger and multi-instrumentalist Van Dyke Parks on piano, accordion and organ, Don Heffington of Lone Justice and the Jayhawks on drums and percussion; classically trained session-man Dominic Genova on double bass, sweetheart \/ sidekick \/ sounding board Tina Chesnutt on electric bass, and newcomer-singer-songwriter Liz Durrett on exquisite backing vocals.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2LP - High Quality 180 Gram double vinyl with a digital download included.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New West Records","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":50411387978059,"sku":"1012027","price":25.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/480005e2-c074-4cd3-9699-11636ad5c6aa_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726657360"},{"product_id":"silver-lake","title":"Silver Lake","description":"\u003cp\u003eCount on two things: Vic Chesnutt will approach any topic, from the delicate to the mundane, from an unexpected angle. And with an incisive eye and razor wit, he will always cut straight to the heart of the matter. He does so to great effect on \u003ci\u003eSilver Lake\u003c\/i\u003e, giving equal weight to the tender affirmation of \u003ci\u003eIn My Way, Yes \u003c\/i\u003eand the scathing self-critique of \u003ci\u003eStyrofoam\u003c\/i\u003e and applying his delightfully odd spin to the standard love story on both \u003ci\u003eBand Camp\u003c\/i\u003e (a funny, nostalgic tale of romance in the high-school horn section) and the Brian Wilson homage \u003ci\u003eFa-La-La\u003c\/i\u003e (a saga of unanswered longing that's set in a hospital). Chesnutt's idiosyncratic quaver and nylon-string strum are abetted throughout by generous rock and soul arrangements, all of which were pristinely recorded by Daniel Lanois protege Mark Howard (who also produced Lucinda Williams' World Without Tears).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New West Records","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":50453032534347,"sku":"1011450","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/5d77dc24-4510-439c-b394-8dbf682e5657_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727167426"},{"product_id":"at-the-cut","title":"At The Cut","description":"\u003cp\u003e'at the cut' picks up where 'north star deserter' left off, with the explosive opening tune 'coward' displaying all the epic soaring thrust this band is capable of. vic debuted this song as part of jem cohen's film 'hallucination empires of tin' when it was performed live with the touring band at the 2007 vienna film festival. re-recorded for 'at the cut', it certainly does cut to the chase, as vic bellows 'i am a coward' to trigger a massive unison instrumental line, reinforcing the tunes double-edged opening lyric (and frank norris quote) 'the courage of the coward is greater than all others'. from this bracing beginning, however, at the cut quickly changes temperature and temperament, settling into what is arguably the most intimate, pensive and heartbreaking work of vic chesnutt's career. cowardice, courage, mortality, tenacity, defiance, mourning and memory are its themes. throughout the album, and even on the two tracks that blister and blast with this rocking band 'coward' and 'philip guston' there is a lyrical intimacy and directness, a searingly raw honesty to vics voice and words, that finds no parallel in his body of work to date. for an album so overtly shaped by ruminations on mortality, by a man from athens, ga who certainly knows of what he sings (having survived a car accident at age 18 that confined him to a wheelchair and has subjected him to an endless cavalcade of complications, procedures, emergencies and towering medical bills ever since), it is both refreshing and unbelievably heartwarming to hear how vic chesnutt sidesteps any of the obvious southern gothic tropes, lyrically and musically. no vaulted arches, gaping abysses or burning fields here - no voicing of the preacher or the devil, no putting on airs. vic manages to sing so authentically and wholeheartedly from and about his sense of place (the south, the wheelchair, 21st century america) because he refuses to sentimentalise any of it and rails against his personal fate without bitterness, without apology, with a poetics of the passionately humanist and secular variety: wholly framed by the back porch, championing a humble wisdom and a natural literateness, certainly permitting a wisecrack or three, but never allowing for anything hackneyed or cornball or fake. 'at the cut' is a bona fide classic by a man better positioned than most to sing it strong and true. on constellation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"No Label","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50491036205387,"sku":"317807","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/ee0f7272-9189-4452-aea3-d1d01b847f04_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727681033"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/fr\/collections\/vic-chesnutt.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}