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 ...

With his angel voice.” In a 1998 interview with Rolling Stone, Chesnutt credited his listeners with keeping him inspired. “I guess the very emotional nature of my songs attracts emotional ...

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, 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 ...

VIC CHESNUTT'S MUSIC ALWAYS seems to be approaching beauty, just as his lyrics are forever closing in on meaning. It's up to the listener to push the songs over the edge, and it can be immensely ...

Last Christmas, Vic Chesnutt delivered on the promise of a career’s worth of haunting, darkly comic songs and took his own life. David Peisner talks to his friends and family to get the untold ...

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 ...

“This fall Vic Chesnutt will embark on a six-week North American tour in support of At the Cut, the Athens, GA-based singer-songwriter’s latest effort. The touring band features Fugazi’s Guy ...

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 ...

Like a lot of Twin Cities rock fans, my first exposure to Vic Chesnutt was seeing him open for Bob Mould on a few of Bob's solo acoustic tours in the late-'80s and early-'90s. In fact, one of ...

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….