American poet/songwriter Vic Chesnutt is dead. Wow, this is very bad news. I was very late in arriving at an appreciation of Vic. It didn't happen until Mrs. Angus and I saw him play live in a bizzaro "super-group" called "The Undertow Orchestra" which was him, David Bazan (Pedro the Lion), Will Johnson (Centro-matic), and Mark Eitzel (American Music Club).
We went because of Bazan and Johnson, but Vic stole the show.
Check out his music if you haven't had a chance, starting perhaps with "West of Rome" or "Silver Lake".
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