DON'T SUCK, DON'T DIE: Giving Up Vic Chesnutt by Kristin Hersh BOOK Folk The first volume flows from

The first volume flows from the eerie and levitating "Entrance" to the quirky "Esplanade (Live)"

listening to this album is not for everyone

We Knew It Was Not Going to Be Like This also offers a modernity-shunning mission statement to go with the slop pop

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

DON'T SUCK, DON'T DIE: Giving Up Vic Chesnutt by Kristin Hersh BOOK Folk The first volume flows from200 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,