Vic Chesnutt

The career of Vic Chesnutt, a songwriter born in 1964, is also prolific and wants to witness a full life, in many directions. Handicapped by the use of his legs since an accident at the age of 18 that left him paralyzed, Chesnutt has since given himself without restraint in music, drugs and alcohol.
All these creative forces, or exits, that translate from 1990, with the album Little that will mark the beginning of a long journey consisting of regular stages (every year and a half around) and collaborations of all kinds, the most striking of which to date remains undoubtedly the one with the artists of the label Constellation, the band A Silver Mt. Zion and Guy Picciotto (Fugazi ) on North Star Desert released in 2007. Combining folk sympathies with the celestial strings of Canadian post-rockers, Chesnutt's work is taking on a new dimension, more fragile than ever. A tone that will be renewed during the 2nd collaboration with Constellation on At The Cut . High point of a work mined by the hazards of the life of a disillusioned and ironic Chesnutt.
However, it is in a very different spirit that Dark Developments released in 2008, recorded with the psyched band Pop Elf Power, for a result still folk but, despite its title, with more marked Americana and poppy hints.
Vic Chesnutt died, released on 25 December 2009. Let's hope he's finally happy somewhere else.