James Victor "Vic" Chesnutt (November 12, 1964 – December 25, 2009) was a singer-songwriter living in Athens, Georgia. He had been writing songs since he was five years old. Injured in a car accident in 1983, the paraplegic artist's first big breakthrough to commercial success came with the release of the tribute album Sweet Relief II: Gravity of the Situation.
An adoptee, Chesnutt was raised in Zebulon, Georgia, where he first started writing songs at the age of 5. At 18, a car accident left him partially paralyzed, though it wasn't long afterward that he realized he could still play guitar. After his recovery he left Zebulon and moved to Nashville, Tennessee; the poetry he read there (by Stevie Smith, Walt Whitman, Wallace Stevens, W. H. Auden, Stephen Crane, and Emily Dickinson) served to inspire and influence him.
Death of Vic Chesnutt
On December 25, 2009, Chesnutt died from an overdose of muscle relaxants that had left him in a coma in an Athens hospital.
Vic Chesnutt - Band Camp
Re: Vic Chesnutt, Folk Singer and Songwriter, Dies at 45
He had just given an NPR interview in which he sang a song about "breaking up" with suicide, which he had tried several times in his life. Three weeks later he killed himself. Very sad.
Re: Vic Chesnutt, Folk Singer and Songwriter, Dies at 45
I'm surprised none of the obituaries mention his performance in Slingblade when Doyle gets the band together. Oddly enough he plays a songwriter... or technically a "tunesmith" The dots go where I say they go!!!
Re: Vic Chesnutt, Folk Singer and Songwriter, Dies at 45
cindy Pekarek Vic Chestnutt was a very good guitarist. He was a real special man to over come the battle of being paraplegic with
a talent to play his guiter again. the peace and comfert for the family. Cindy
Re: Vic Chesnutt, Folk Singer and Songwriter, Dies at 45
what is a paraplegic?
Re: Vic Chesnutt, Folk Singer and Songwriter, Dies at 45
Hi, paraplegic is a person who has paraplegia (is paralyzed from the waist down)
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