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Introduction by Vic Chesnutt

Biografia do Artista para Vic Chesnutt

James Victor "Vic" Chesnutt November 12 1964 – December 25 2009 Was An American Singer-Songwriter From Athens Georgia. His First Album Little Was Released In 1990 But His Breakthrough To Commercial Success Didn't Come Until 1996 With The Release Of Sweet Relief II Gravity Of The Situation A Tribute Album Of Mainstream Artists Covering His Songs.
Chesnutt Released Seventeen Albums During His Career Including Two Produced By Michael Stipe And A 1996 Release On Capitol Records. His Musical Style Has Been Described By Bryan Carroll Of Allmusic.Com As A "skewed Refracted Version Of Americana That Is Haunting Funny Poignant And Occasionally Mystical Usually All At Once".
Injuries From A 1983 Car Accident Left Him Partially Paralyzed He Used A Wheelchair And Had Limited Use Of His Hands.
An Adoptee Chesnutt Was Raised In Zebulon Georgia Where He First Started Writing Songs At The Age Of Five. At 18 A Car Accident Left Him Partially Paralyzed In A December 1 2009 Interview With Terry Gross On Her NPR Show Fresh Air He Said He Was "a Quadriplegic From His Neck Down" And Although He Had Feeling And Some Movement In His Body He Could Not Walk "functionally" And That Although He Realized Shortly Afterward That He Could Still Play Guitar He Could Only Play Simple Chords. After His Recovery He Left Zebulon And Moved To Nashville Tennessee The Poetry He Read There By Stevie Smith Walt Whitman Wallace Stevens W. H. Auden Stephen Crane And Emily Dickinson Served To Inspire And Influence Him.
When He Was 13 Chesnutt Declared That He Was An Atheist 6 A Position That He Maintained For The Rest Of His Life.
On December 25 2009 Chesnutt Died From An Overdose Of Muscle Relaxants That Had Left Him In A Coma In An Athens Hospital. In The 2009 Interview With Terry Gross While Discussing The Song "Flirted With You All My Life" He Said "You Know I've Attempted Suicide Three Or Four Times. It Didn't Take."

INÍCIO VIC CHESNUTT
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