Vic Chesnutt - "Everything I say"

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

Run time: 09:52 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rPyQFmGmb4   Posted on YouTube: December 23, 2009 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: December 27, 2009 By DU Member: Adenoid_Hynkel Views on DU: 524

 
UPDATE: The Constellation Records website has posted an announcement that Vic Chesnutt died this afternoon in Athens, Georgia. "In the few short years that we knew him personally, Vic transformed our sense of what true character, grace and determination are all about. Our grief is inexpressible and Vic's absence unfathomable," the announcement said.

Kristin Hersh has set up a website for those who want to donate to help Chesnutt's family with expenses. "What this man was capable of was superhuman," she writes.

45-year-old Athens, Georgia singer-songwriter Vic Chesnutt is currently in a coma, various sources report. According to Tweets from Chesnutt's friend Kristin Hersh, the coma is a result of a suicide attempt, but that has not been confirmed.
http://pitchfork.com/news/37454-vic-chesnutt-in-coma/
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Chesnutt had recently struggled with a lawsuit filed by a Georgia hospital after he racked up surgery bills totalling some $70,000, the Athens newspaper reported. He said he couldn't afford more than hospitalization insurance and couldn't keep up with the payments.
The problems baffled his Canadian bandmates, Chesnutt said.
"There's nowhere else in the world that I'd be facing the situation I'm in right now. They cannot understand what kind of society would inflict that on their population," he said. "It's terrifying."
http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5ilNJWDAmysDAUbD3ugGCP2xSF3-w

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"Up until recently, Hersh and Chesnutt were planning to record a new album and tour together this year. Now that he’s gone, she’s set up a website to raise funds for his widow, Tina. Fans have already donated thousands of dollars. “Vic’s medical bills were astronomical. Like most musicians, he didn’t have insurance for a long time, and then when he got insurance, they wouldn’t pay his bills. I know that he was about 50 grand in debt just for medical bills…. generosity is unbelievable.”
http://music-mix.ew.com/2009/12/26/vic-chesnutt-kristin-hersh/

[enigmatic]

1. I knew Vic slightly better than casually when I lived in Athens 20 years ago

Vic was troubled but I loved the guy, and I wasn't the only one. I was in a Black Sabbath cover band w/ him for exactly one drunken jam, but loved every minute of it. I saw Vic at a Eugene Chadbourne concert semi-affectionately heckle Eugene (who had a smirk on his face) from the side of the stage while Eugene was playing his electric rake and passing it around the crowd; it was one of the few perfect moments I've ever had.

Safe Passage, Vic.