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Wednesday, February 16 2011

Become What You Are: A Conversation with Cowboy Junkies' Michael Timmins

PopMatters chats with Michael Timmins about Cowboy Junkies' new record of Vic Chesnutt covers, their wildly ambitious Nomads project, and the inspiration he finds in covering other people's songs.


Monday, January 25 2010

Part 1: From Lily Allen to Gallows

Slipped Discs kicks off with Britpop princess Lily Allen, the late great Vic Chesnutt, the Balkan beats of [dunkelbunt], the hypnotic sounds of the Field and many more. All records that missed our top 60 list last year.


Sunday, October 4 2009

20 Questions: Vic Chesnutt

Chesnutt talks to PopMatters 20 Questions about his upcoming work with Jonathan Richman, taking advice from Michael Stipe, and how his copy of Number One Hits of the Sixties is still the greatest album of all time.


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Friday, December 4 2009

Vic Chesnutt: Skitter on Take-off

Lost in the rush of deserved praise for At the Cut, Skitter on Take-off seems to have gone largely unnoticed. That’s a shame, because the album is brilliant.


Friday, January 23 2009

Vic Chesnutt, Elf Power, & the Amorphous Strums: Dark Developments

A winningly catchy and bizarre collaboration between Athens Georgia musical heavyweights, sure to appeal to bootblacks, butchers, and aubergine-eyed boys and girls everywhere.


Tuesday, September 18 2007

Vic Chesnutt: North Star Deserter

Featuring Thee Silver Mt. Zion Orchestra, Guy Picciotto, and a host of others, Mr. Chesnutt's latest opus is a monument of haunted beauty, splintered fury, gloves off and gorgeous.


Friday, April 15 2005

Vic Chesnutt: Ghetto Bells

One of Chesnutt's very best. The nuanced production is akin to Silver Lake, but the songs are 10 times as memorable.


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Tuesday, January 5 2010

Remembering Vic Chesnutt

The regrettable tendency for audiences when any great artist dies is to hear that person’s music in the past tense. Songs one used to be…


Friday, July 31 2009

Vic Chesnutt - At the Cut (new album / MP3)

Vic Chesnutt At the Cut (Constellation) Releasing: 22 September (US) SONG LIST 01 Coward 02 When the Bottom Fell Out 03 Chinaberry Tree 04 Chain…


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