Artist	Song
Vic Chesnutt	We Hovered With Short Wings
from At the Cut (2009)
Vic Chesnutt	Soft Picasso
from Little (2004)
Vic Chesnutt, Elf Power & Amorphous Strums	Mystery
from Dark Developments (2008)
Vic Chesnutt	You Are Never Alone
from North Star Deserter (2008)
Brute	Blight
from Nine High a Pallet (2002)
Vic Chesnutt	Withering
from West of Rome (2004)
Vic Chesnutt	In My Way, Yes
from Silver Lake (2003)
Vic Chesnutt	Mighty Monkey
from Merriment (2000)
Vic Chesnutt	Band Camp
from Silver Lake (2003)
Vic Chestnutt	Rank Stranger
from The Slaughter Rule (2003)
Vic Chesnutt	Everything I Say
from North Star Deserter (2008)
Vic Chesnutt	The Night the Lights Went Out In Georgia
from Star Power! (2004)
Vic Chesnutt	My New Life
from Skitter On Take-Off (2009)
Elf Power & Vic Chesnutt	Walking With the Beggar Boys
from Walking With the Beggar Boys (2003)
Brute	Cobalt Blue
from Co-Balt (2006)

Comment:

Even when he opened up to his roots by recording a cover tune, Vic Chesnutt couldn’t help but reveal the complexity that lurked deep in his emotional center. He managed to give his home state a shout-out, nod to the pop radio staples of his youth, [i]and[/i] burrow into a bloody murder mystery by whispering his way through “The Night the Lights Went Out In Georgia.” Covering traditional bluegrass spiritual “Rank Strangers To Me” let him air out his country side, and peer into the possibilities of faith without abandoning his deep-seated existential angst. Of course, he was fully capable of penning his own kind of inspirational anthem; despite the comically unappealing options for salvation he laid out on “You Are Never Alone,” he leaned into its real message with all the might in his battered body — “keep on keepin’ on.”

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