Vic Chesnutt

Sample lyric from "Woodrow Wilson," one of several slow, agonized processionals on Vic
Chesnutt's The Salesman and Bernadette: "She said her mother act like a first lady/She'd
been having those problems lately/She said she's going to the clinic on Wednesday."
Nothing special, really; bits of waiting-for-the-bus conversation. But there's genius lurking
in here: With the detachment of an insurance adjuster, Chesnutt somehow trans... More >