Vic Chesnutt
Though Michael Stipe had been a fan of Vic Chesnutt since the late '80s, producing his first two full-lengths, it took the Sweet Relief Two tribute album to make a star of him in mid-1996. The album featured artists such as Madonna, Hootie & the Blowfish, Smashing Pumpkins, and R.E.M. covering the songs of Chesnutt, a paraplegic who was injured in a car accident when he was 18. The singer/songwriter began playing contemporary acoustic folk around Athens, GA, soon after his injury. A show at the 40 Watt Club brought him to the attention of Stipe, who ...[more]
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VINYL FORMAT. Deluxe 180g vinyl edition includes a CD copy of the album, full-color 9"x18" artwork insert, fold-out lyric sheet and limited edition three-color 11"x22" silk-screen poster, all packaged in a thick 24pt. record jacket. Cover and insert artwork by filmmaker and photographer Jem Cohen. Vic Chesnutt is a true iconoclast and hidden American treasure making some of the most powerful mus [ read more ]
LP+CD $20.99
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Vic Chesnutt has recorded with many different people for all kinds of labels, but he's never made an album like his debut on Vapor Records! Skitter On Take-Off allows Vic Chesnutt to create his most dramatic album yet, recording devastating songs like 'Rips in the Fabric' and 'Dick Cheney' live with no overdubs. This album becomes a unique addition to his history, and allows the singer-songwriter the chance to collaborate with an important influence: the Modern Lover himself, Jonathan Richman. Ches [ read more ]
MP3 $10.49
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VINYL FORMAT. Vic Chesnutt has recorded with many different people for all kinds of labels, but he's never made an album like his debut on Vapor Records! Skitter On Take-Off allows Vic Chesnutt to create his most dramatic album yet, recording devastating songs like "Rips in the Fabric" and "Dick Cheney" live with no overdubs. This album becomes a unique addition to his history, and allows the singer-songwriter the chance to collaborate with an important influence: the Modern Lover himself, Jonathan R [ read more ]
LP $18.98
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Vic Chesnutt is a true iconoclast and hidden American treasure making some of the most powerful music of his career in collaboration with his "Constellation" band, which features Guy Picciotto (Fugazi) and members of Thee Silver Mt. Zion and Godspeed You! Black Emperor. At The Cut is Vic's second record with this group, following the widely acclaimed North Star Deserter album from 2007. On tour now!
CD $14.99
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Vic Chesnutt has recorded with many different people for all kinds of labels, but he's never made an album like his debut on Vapor Records! Skitter On Take-Off allows Vic Chesnutt to create his most dramatic album yet, recording devastating songs like "Rips in the Fabric" and "Dick Cheney" live with no overdubs. This album becomes a unique addition to his history, and allows the singer-songwriter the chance to collaborate with an important influence: the Modern Lover himself, Jonathan Richman. Chesnu [ read more ]
CD $14.99
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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 tune's d [ read more ]
MP3 $9.99
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Insound LP+MP3! Purchase the vinyl format of North Star Deserter and you'll receive a link to download the MP3s for free immediately after check-out! VINYL FORMAT. The songs on North Star Deserter are some of the most bracing and intense Vic Chesnutt has ever made: 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 rock [ read more ]
2xLP $19.99
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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. The broad cast of players - all [ read more ]
MP3 $9.99
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"Is the Actor Happy?" remains a definite verification of Vic Chestnutt's standing as one of the most relevant songwriters of the '90s. Pristine production that insures that not a note is wasted or out of place, it provides the perfect vehicle for Chesnutt's slice-of-life short stories. The album is a beautiful testament to his unique voice and the adversity that he's been through. Heartbreakingly delicate folk rock arrangements are followed by crashing guitar crescendos as the perfect vehicles for taking Ch [ read more ]
CD $13.99
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The songs on North Star Deserter are some of the most bracing and intense Vic Chesnutt has ever made: 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. The broad cast of players - all [ read more ]
CD $15.99
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In many ways, Vic Chesnutt fits more comfortably in the great tradition of Southern literature than Southern rock & roll -- with his elegant, slightly off-kilter wordplay and comfortably elliptical storytelling style, Chesnutt has as much in common with, say, Flannery O'Connor as anyone in contemporary music. Which is to say that Vic Chesnutt doesn't sound much like anyone else, which is at once his blessing and his curse; it's hard to pitch him to most people because he's unique to the po [ read more ]
CD $12.33
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Sounding more upbeat and a whole lot more soulful than on previous outings, Vic Chesnutt has invited the Dixie-fried experimental group Lambchop along with his wife Tina into the studio for his sixth album, a concept about a traveling salesman. Salesman and Bernadette sounds less like his usual doleful, sometimes baleful, Southern Gothic self and is perhaps his best recording yet. Chesnutt's is a vulnerable voice, and though he can project frailty, his M.O. isn't pity-inducing; in fact, he [ read more ]
CD $11.38