sang darkly comic and often disarmingly candid songs about death, vulnerability, and life's simple joys. A car accident when he was 18 left him partly paralyzed, but he has said that the accident focused him as a musician and a poet.
"It was only after I broke my neck and even like maybe a year later that I really started realizing that I had something to say," he said in a recent radio interview with Terry Gross.
from The New York Times: Arts Beat: Vic Chesnutt, Singer, Dies
also Star Tribune: OurVoices: Remembering Vic Chesnutt
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