Artist: Vic Chesnutt
Live Reviews from web archive November 10, 2008
Vic Chesnutt & Elf Power
Does Vic Chesnutt apologize wherever he goes? Or was there some embarrassment last time he came to town? At the brink of launching their set, Chesnutt signaled for Elf Power to hold back as he riffed, solo, a musical apology: “Hello, everybody. It’s good to be here, again. Last time I got too drunk. Sorry.” [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #72 Nov-Dec 2007
Vic Chesnutt – North Star Deserter
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 of disparate groups including Fugazi and Godspeed You Black Emperor. What comes out this mix [...]
The Long Way Around - Feature from Issue #56 March-April 2005
Vic Chesnutt – The life you save may be your own
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 wooden floorboards with a sudden whoosh. “Hey,” he says, stifling a stray yawn under his [...]
Not Fade Away - Reissue Review from Issue #53 Sept-Oct 2004
Vic Chesnutt – Little/West of Rome/Drunk/Is the Actor Happy?
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 ranks among the most formidable of any singer-songwriter currently active. These beautifully produced reissues testify [...]
The Long Way Around - Feature from Issue #45 May-June 2003
Vic Chesnutt – Little big man
In a closer-to-perfect world, Vic Chesnutt would be played on the radio, and it would happen not because of committee calculations but as a result of free-willed DJ across the country independently choosing to air his finicky, endearing art-folk. In a closer-to-perfect world, a majority of American radio stations wouldn’t be disinformative monstrosities controlled by [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #35 Sept-Oct 2001
Vic Chesnutt – Left To His Own Devices
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 a handful of minor masterpieces — darkly comic records that gleam with mischief and glint [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #29 Sept-Oct 2000
Vic Chesnutt and Mr & Mrs Keneipp – Merriment
Everyone’s favorite Georgia-based paralympian once deadpanned to a Spin interviewer, “Vic Chesnutt is an autodidactically pretentious writer of pseudo-symbolic, text-centered dirge-ballads…singing in a distinctive but ever decreasingly gruff and folksy voice.” That voice, of course, is located somewhere between heaven and hell. His sixth album, last year’s Chesnutt-Lambchop teamup The Salesman And Bernadette, represented a [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #18 Nov-Dec 1998
Vic Chesnutt – The Salesman And Bernadette
“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 but a chirp compared to Neville’s numinous tenor — having fun at his own expense. [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #14 March-April 1998
Vic Chesnutt / Lambchop / Paul Burch / Cyod – Lucy’s Record Shop (Nashville, TN)
With a mischievous half-smile, Lambchop’s Kurt Wagner cut right to the point: “Why the long faces?” Why indeed. The capacity crowd on this Friday night was there to mourn the passing of Lucy’s Record Shop, the all-ages venue that for six years made Nashville a stop on indie rock’s underground railroad. In 1992, when the [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #9 May-June 1997
Vic Chesnutt / Scud Mountain Boys – 7th House (Pontiac, MI)
With the show just over 50 minutes old, scattered grumbles were heard when Vic Chesnutt announced, “we have one or two more.” Well, it did turn out to be four more, and in hindsight, this Detroit audience can count themselves fortunate to get 14 songs from Chesnutt. Two days later, the mercurial songwriter went AWOL [...]
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