Vic Chesnutt may live below the radar of mainstream pop, but he's created a whole world of characters and stories down there over the past couple of decades. In the fine southern gothic tradition, the Georgia-based Chesnutt sings about lost souls, isolated cynics, crime and punishment and religion with kindness and acerbic wit.
Chesnutt's incisive observations can perhaps be traced back to two earth-shattering events in his life: A car accident that left him in a wheelchair in his teens, and a sudden loss of faith at an even earlier age. Both gave him an outsider's perspective on his hometown culture.
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