September 28, 2015 • Musicians Kristin Hersh and Vic Chesnutt were friends and tour buddies for years before his death from an overdose in 2009; Don't Suck is Hersh's haunting memoir of her lost ...

Vic Chesnutt, a singer-songwriter of spare, idiosyncratic folk songs tinged with melancholy, died Christmas Day in Athens, Ga., after taking an overdose of prescription muscle relaxants ...

Vic Chesnutt, a singer-songwriter of spare, idiosyncratic folk songs tinged with melancholy, died Christmas Day in Athens, Ga., after an intentional overdose of prescription muscle relaxants ...

Our writers break down headlines from around the Triangle, every weekday. VIC CHESNUTT: Jem’s a filmmaker and a friend of mine, and he hated my last couple records. And he’s a big fan of mine ...

Vic Chesnutt's label, Constellation Records, has released a statement confirming that the 45-year-old singer-songwriter has died. "Surrounded by family and friends, Vic Chesnutt died in Athens ...

Vic Chesnutt’s attraction to the darker side of life may or may not stem from the teenage accident that left him in a wheelchair. In any case, he’s hardly confined to that wheelchair ...

ATHENS, Ga. - Vic Chesnutt, the folk-rocker whose sometimes dark reflections on life were influenced in part by a car wreck that left him paralyzed, has died. He was 45. Family friend Christina ...

Vic Chesnutt, a singer-songwriter of spare, idiosyncratic folk songs tinged with melancholy, died Christmas Day in Athens, Ga., after an intentional overdose of prescription muscle relaxants ...

In 1983, Vic Chesnutt, an obscure country misfit, was 18, drunk again, and crashing his car in America's southern state of Georgia. When he woke from his coma, his body was confined to a wheelchair.

But today Vic Chesnutt is known as a musician’s musician, someone R.E.M.’s Michael Stipe — who produced two of Chesnutt’s nine solo albums — recently called one of the top 10 finest ...

Vic Chesnutt went into a coma on Thursday. Over the past couple of hours multiple news sources confirmed his sad passing, many of them Athens-based and Matador Records & Billboard included….