Vic Chesnutt News and Photos

Destroyer Albums From Worst To Best

Fri, April 12 2013 5:01pm - Source: Stereogum

Though it is easy to imagine him recoiling in horror from the appellation, Dan Bejar is quintessentially a songwriter's songwriter.

(Re)Graded on a Curve: Van Dyke Parks, Discover America

Fri, March 29 2013 12:37pm - Source: The Vinyl District

Last year, Graded on a Curve featured a retrospective review of the album pictured above.

Patterson Hood & The Downtown Rumblers, Live Session #110

Thu, February 07 2013 10:10pm - Source: hear ya

Patterson Hood is responsible for this music blog existing.

Peter Jesperson discusses Songs For Slim and The Replacements’ reunion

Tue, January 15 2013 5:19am - Source: Consequence of Sound

I'm sure just them getting together has sparked tons of rumors about reunions, but in a recent quote, Stinson pretty much said that he ruled that out, citing a number of factors.

My favorite albums of 2012

Wed, January 09 2013 11:25pm - Source: Catfish Vegas presents....

A love song to San Francisco delivered on a hot plate of raucous rock 'n' roll, Temple Beautiful is instantly catchy.

Simon Says: Loose Ends

Fri, December 14 2012 11:17am - Source: Faded Glamour

Since starting this column and inviting contact, I've become aware of just how much music is being made in the world.

Simon Joyner :: Ghosts

Mon, December 03 2012 8:04pm - Source: Aquarium Drunkard

There is something squarely stubborn about releasing a vinyl-only double record in 2012.

Graded on a Curve: Graham Parker & the Rumour, Three Chords Good

Tue, November 27 2012 3:29pm - Source: The Vinyl District

While he experienced much success in the '80s and beyond, these days Graham Parker's best work is widely considered to be the fine run of albums he recorded in the mid/late-'70s with The Rumour, a group of pub rock vets that helped propel the singer-songwriter into the company of Nick Lowe, Elvis Costello, and the young Joe Jackson as a direct, classicist (and UK-based) breath of fresh musical air.

Amanda Palmer on Illegal Downloading and Protest Music

Tue, November 06 2012 2:19pm - Source: Under The Radar Magazine

Though musicians have been experimenting with crowd-funding of their projects in recent years, it's probable that no musician has been as successful as Amanda Palmer at using her fans' generosity to make record labels unnecessary.

The Inner Flame burning even brighter...

Mon, October 29 2012 10:31pm - Source: MOG

This was a keeper in it's original iteration and it's flame only burns brighter on this re-release which includes additional tracks of goodness.

Graded on a Curve: Vic Chesnutt, The Salesman and Bernadette

Thu, October 04 2012 1:01pm - Source: The Vinyl District

After the better part of a decade on the scene, Vic Chesnutt released The Salesman and Bernadette in 1998, a brilliantly assured LP featuring backing from Nashville stalwarts Lambchop.

Of DIY & DIY: Tim Burgess & Kurt Wagner In Conversation

Tue, October 02 2012 12:44pm - Source: The Quietus

2012 has been a busy old year for Tim Burgess.

Tim Burgess - Oh No I Love You

Fri, September 21 2012 9:57am - Source: The Quietus

It's an unlikely partnership: the 45-year-old mop-topped Northwich lad, co-founder of once baggy act The Charlatans, a band who never quite managed to emerge from the shadows of their contemporaries The Stone Roses, hooks up with the almost 54 year old baseball-capped Nashville institution who founded once alt. country act Lambchop, a group who've never quite managed to achieve the success that devoted fans and critics have always predicted.

Patterson Hood – Heat Lightning Rumbles In The Distance (2012)

Thu, August 30 2012 12:19pm - Source: Something Else!

Patterson Hood is an aspiring novelist, destined to someday become the next William Faulkner.

Glasgow Americana Festival: October 3rd to 7th

Mon, August 20 2012 11:36am - Source: Glasswerk National \ Thirst for Music

The hugely popular Glasgow Americana Festival is now in its sixth year and the organisers' determination to provide a top-class line-up has paid off again.

Kelly Hogan :: The AD Interview

Thu, August 16 2012 7:45pm - Source: Aquarium Drunkard

People like to call Kelly Hogan a " chanteuse ," but isn't that really just a fancy French word for "she can sing her ass off?"

Charles Douglas - Not Your Kind of Music (The Basement Tapes 1995-1999)

Tue, July 24 2012 7:57am - Source: Drowned In Sound

Alex McAulay is a writer who churns out young adult fiction for MTV books.

Mike Ragogna: Delayed Reaction: A Conversation With Soul Asylum's Dave Pirner, Plus Chatting With Gyroskope's Todd Smith

Wed, July 18 2012 4:08am - Source: The Huffington Post - Entertainment

Hey how are you doing Mike, what's happening?

Report: Van Dyke Parks With Grizzly Bear's Daniel Rossen and Fleet Foxes' Robin Pecknold in London

Mon, June 25 2012 9:23pm - Source: Pitchfork Media

"We're here to celebrate anonymity-- what Faulkner called 'the authority of failure,'" Van Dyke Parks said at London's Barbican on Saturday night, by way of introduction to an interpretation of Ramblin' Jack Elliott's "Death Don't Have No Mercy".

Cracker Singer David Lowery, NPR Intern Argue Over Illegal Downloading, Ben Gibbard, Kathleen Edwards, Stars Pile On

Tue, June 19 2012 6:52pm - Source: Spinner

Cracker / Camper Van Beethoven singer David Lowery wrote a lengthy and insightful reply yesterday to Emily White, a summer intern at National Public Radio's All Songs Considered, regarding illegal downloading and artists not being rightfully paid for their songs.

Kelly Hogan: I Like to Keep Myself in Pain

Tue, June 19 2012 5:36am - Source: Pitchfork Media

One of my first real Chicago experiences after moving to the city a few years ago was seeing Kelly Hogan take the stage during a Drive-By Truckers show.

New Music Monday: Dar Williams, Hank III, Donovan, the Grateful Dead, Lurrie Bell

Mon, April 16 2012 12:17pm - Source: Something Else!

Put up a chair; there's piping hot newness in store from the likes of Dar Williams, Duke Robillard, Hank Williams III, Jon Cleary and Lurrie Bell , as well as sizzling reissues and concert souvenirs from Blue Oyster Cult, Cowboy Junkies, Donovan, the Grateful Dead and Janis Joplin — not to mention the Tom Moulton remixes of favorite cuts from Philadelphia International.

Songs For A Future Generation

Thu, April 05 2012 2:19pm - Source: ClashMusic.com

In one sense Athens, Georgia is your typical college town—40,000 students thrown into a town of 100,000 or so people, always in flux, always the same—but in a musical sense the place is extraordinary.

Graded on a Curve: Lampchop, Mr. M

Wed, March 28 2012 1:06pm - Source: The Vinyl District

After a wait of over three years, Kurt Wagner and his band of astute conspirators have delivered yet another highly distinguished album.

Cowboy Junkies – The Wilderness (2012)

Thu, March 22 2012 1:10pm - Source: Something Else!

This is an album for people who still think Trinity Sessions stands as the Cowboy Junkies' best recording, but also for those who want to hear how that sound has expanded and matured over the years.

Mike Ragogna: From The Beach Boys & Randy Newman To Fleet Foxes & Skrillex: A Conversation With Van Dyke Parks, Plus Calling JB Baretsky's Bluff

Wed, March 21 2012 4:12am - Source: The Huffington Post - Entertainment

You are an artist with a lot of irons in the fire, like recently touring with Fleet Foxes.

Graded on a Curve: Van Dyke Parks, Discover America

Thu, March 15 2012 1:20pm - Source: The Vinyl District

Van Dyke Parks is easily one of the most eclectic and engaging musical minds of the last fifty years.

Sunday Under Covers - Sweet Relief II

Sun, February 19 2012 11:13pm - Source: MOG

Gravity of the Situation is a 1996 tribute album that featured a variety of alternative rock bands covering songs written by quadriplegic musician Vic Chesnutt.

Jim White :: The AD Interview

Thu, February 16 2012 9:15pm - Source: Aquarium Drunkard

Nearly five years is a long time to wait, but it's been that long since Jim White's last official LP.

Lambchop - Gone Tomorrow Video

Wed, February 15 2012 6:31pm - Source: VIVA INDIE ROCK

I can't describe this better than they do on the Lambchop website: "As on past Lambchop records, many of the songs on Mr. M are framed with lush strings, and there's a restrained undercurrent of distortion and discord. The core of the music remains the cyclical picking of Wagner's guitar and the soft, warm croaking of his voice. The songs are spacious, even dreamy, as on the Countrypolitan instrumental "Gar," while the lyrics and titles are rich with allusions, some of them obvious, others seemingly unknowable.

Lambchop – Mr M

Mon, February 13 2012 8:04am - Source: The Line Of Best Fit

Retreating from music in the shadow of the suicide of his great friend and collaborator Vic Chesnutt, Kurt Wagner effectively disbanded Lambchop in favour of visual art in 2009 and the world had a fair idea we'd hear no more from the band that issued three consecutive near-classic albums in the years that bridged the '90s and the new millennium.

Tuesday Music - Blind Willies

Wed, December 14 2011 2:40am - Source: MOG

In April 2009 I watched a Frontline documentary, The Released, about what happens to mentally ill inmates after they're paroled.

Lambchop Announce New Album And Free Track

Fri, November 18 2011 9:14am - Source: Glasswerk National \ Thirst for Music

It starts with some casual cursing yet the last word is love.

Counting Backwards: Throwing Muses Interviewed

Mon, October 24 2011 10:40am - Source: The Quietus

In late April of 1988, in the now-defunct Manchester International One venue, I stood wide-eyed and shocked as a band from Boston tore through a set of songs which scorched their way into my heart.

CoS presents an October Party

Tue, October 04 2011 9:21pm - Source: Consequence of Sound

Last week, we asked you to save the date.

Album Review: Madeline – Black Velvet

Fri, August 12 2011 12:00pm - Source: Consequence of Sound

For my money, the best singer-songwriters are ones whose music is simple and unaffected, with clear vocal tones, minds with clear eyes, and personalities with clear hearts.

Various Artists - Rave On Buddy Holly

Thu, June 30 2011 2:25pm - Source: BBC Music

Anyone who's ever stumbled across the likes of The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Plays the Music Of R.E.M., or any of the Pickin' On… series of bluegrass covers records, knows that tribute albums are often – if not usually – little more than badly told jokes with no punchline.