DON'T SUCK, DON'T DIE: Giving Up Vic Chesnutt by Kristin Hersh BOOK Folk "Lo-fi bedroom garage punk project

"Lo-fi bedroom garage punk project of Eora/Sydney musician MICHAEL BARKER

stumbling upon The NIGHT KINGS in a sea of stale grunge and alternative pap in 1992 was just what the doctor ordered

as if the party has gone on all night and continues into the morning but everyone’s raspy from talking too much and gradually agrees to whisper and pantomime as they watch the sun come up over the hills

it features a monster two and a half hours of music

with an assembled array of wayward equipment stored at his Analogue Hades base

DON'T SUCK, DON'T DIE: Giving Up Vic Chesnutt by Kristin Hersh BOOK Folk "Lo-fi bedroom garage punk project200 pages, hardcover. Friend, asshole, angel, mutant, singer songwriter Vic Chesnutt came along and made us gross and broken people seem . . . I dunno, cooler, I guess. A quadriplegic who could play only simple chords on his guitar, Chesnutt recorded seventeen critically acclaimed albums before his death in 2009, including About to Choke, North Star Deserter, and At the Cut. In 2006, NPR placed him in the top five of the ten best living songwriters,