Don't Suck, Don't Die: Giving Up Vic Chesnutt

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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, along with Bob Dylan, Tom Waits, Paul McCartney, and Bruce Springsteen Chesnutt s songs have also been covered by many prominent artists, including Madonna, the Smashing Pumpkins, R.E.M., Sparklehorse, Fugazi, and Neutral Milk Hotel.Kristin Hersh toured with Chesnutt for nearly a decade and they became close friends, bonding over a love of songwriting and mutual struggles with mental health In Don t Suck, Don t Die, she describes many seemingly small moments they shared, their free ranging conversations, and his tragic death More memoir than biography, Hersh s book plumbs the sources of Chesnutt s pain and creativity deeply than any conventional account of his life and recordings ever could Chesnutt was difficult to understand and frequently difficult to be with, but, as Hersh reveals him, he was also wickedly funny and painfully perceptive This intimate memoir is essential reading for anyone interested in the music or the artist. Best Read [ Don't Suck, Don't Die: Giving Up Vic Chesnutt ] By [ Kristin Hersh ] For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr I haven t heard of Kristin Hersh and I don t even really know if I ve ever listened to Vic Chesnutt s music but holy hell, look at this review from LitHub s Great Bookseller Fall 2015 Preview This is an amazing memoir from the bestselling author of Rat Girl and founder of the band Throwing Muses It paints a beautiful portrait of musician Vic C...Those familiar with Kristin Hersh s solo lyrics, her work with Throwing Muses and 50 Ft Wave, or her memoirs, will be comfortable with the dense poetry and stream of consciousness style that characterizes her writing Still, it was evident that Gianna LaMorte of University of Texas Press had to put a lot of pressure on Hersh to write this brief book not from any misguided sense that a story of Chesnutt s tough but rich life would be a best seller, but from the realization that if Hersh Those familiar with Kristin Hersh s solo lyrics, her work with Throwing Muses and 50 Ft Wave, or her memoirs, will be comfortable with the dense poetry and stream of consciousness style that characterizes her writing Still, it was evident that Gianna LaMorte of University of Texas Press had to put a lot of pressure on Hersh to write this brief book not from any misguided sense that a story of Chesnutt s tough but rich life would be a best seller, but from the realization that if Hersh wouldn t do it, there might not be any eulogy written to honor Chesnutt s singular life.Hersh dove into her project in such an abrupt and unconventional way riffing o...Here s the blurb I sent to the publisher As a reader, I want to be surprised This memoir of Kristin Hersh s friendship with the immensely talented Vic Chestnutt surprised me Chestnutt, a man who started with a broken heart and blamed everyone he met for breaking it, is given to us in these pages as a complex and ultimately tragic figure who seemed in retrospect fated for an early death I admire Hersh for writing the book, both because the rawness in these pages is very apparent and Here s the blurb I sent to the publisher As a reader, I want to be surprised This memoir of Kristin Hersh s friendship with the immensely talented Vic Chestnutt surprised me Chestnutt, a man who started with a broken heart and blamed everyone he met for breaking it, is given to us in these pages as a complex and ultimately tragic figure who seemed in retrospect fated for an early death I admire He...Hersh continues to impress with her second anti memoir a footloose helterskelter peep into the mindmeld of Vic Chesnutt, one of the finest songwriters of the last 30 annums Those seeking a bland factual serving should not approach this personal stream of recollections rendered into a form of road hopping poetry Hersh recalls her time touring with Vic at various undated periods in their long association and has reproduced conversations and banter from the time with excellent attention to Hersh continues to impress with her second anti memoir a footloose helterskelter peep into the mindmeld of Vic Chesnutt, one of the finest songwriters of the last 30 annums Those seeking a bland factual serving should not approach this personal stream of recollections rendered into a form of road ...This is an amazing memoir It paints a beautiful portrait of Vic Chesnutt, his unique friendship with the author and the sorrowful broken darkness they each deal with The language is warm, intimate and poetic It s so gorgeous it actually hurts to read I have not been so moved by a piece of art, any art in years Even with the inevitable tragic ending, Hersh keeps you hanging on with her delicate and sublime prose You know you are circling a vortex but the water is so perfect you don t care This is an amazing memoir It paints a beautiful portrait of Vic Chesnutt, his unique friendship with the author and the sorrowful broken darkness they each deal with The language is warm, intimate and poetic It s so gorgeous it actually hurts to read I have not been so moved by a piece of art, any art in years Even with the inevitable tragic ending, Hersh keeps you hanging on with her delica...Don t suck, Don t die Giving up Vic Chesnutt is a memoir by musician Kristin Hersh This book details the relationship between Kristen and her friend, fellow musician, James Victor Chesnutt and the lead up to his death...As with Rat Girl, I didn t want to like Hersh s writing style kind of whiny, kind of hippyish but, like that book, I eased into it and enjoyed this one too Truthfully, this is at least 50% reflection on her own life during the time she came to know Chesnutt Not surprisingly, if you ve ever listened to Throwing Muses or her solo work, she ...Not so much a book about Vic as it is a book about the author s relationship to Vic If you re looking for a biography of Vic, this ain t it It may as well be a book about Kristin Hersh.I d never listened to Vic Chesnutt before The sole reason I entered this Goodreads giveaway is because the book was written by Kristin Hersh aka my musical goddess Her Paradoxical Undressing autobiography is most probably my favourite music book ever After finishing this, I did give Vic some listens but to be brutally honest, he isn t quite for me However this book is lovely, as I knew it would be But then again Hersh could write about One Direction and I would probably want to read it I d never listened to Vic Chesnutt before The sole reason I entered this Goodreads giveaway is because the book was written by Kristin Hersh aka my musical goddess Her Paradoxical Undressing autobiography is most probably my favourite music book ever After finishing this, I did give Vic some listens but to be brutally honest, he isn t quite for me However this book is lovely, as I knew it would be But then again Hersh could write about One Direction and I would probably want to read it This small volume is not an autobiography You won t read it and discover much about the history of the man What it is, is a glimpse into the world of Vic Chesnutt as experienced by Kristin Hersh, two lonely souls, who just seem to feel feelings so muchthan the average folk, and have a way of articulating those feelings in words and music to an enviable extent.I hate to say it, but my one qui... I am a monsterLike QuasimodoOr Caliban the natural manGiving wild ripostes to my reflectionOne ugly morningIn a rageFather threw an appleInto my carapaceAnd like the invisible manDirecting trafficI d be ineffectiveNo matter how enthusiasticAmid the masses frenzyParticipationIn this massiveSeparationAppearance is everythingNothing is how it seemsAnd civilized societyIs calm civilityI m the phantom of the operaSinging beauty and at easeOr Henry Darger sAutobiographyAnd that is curt clues to my I am a monsterLike QuasimodoOr Caliban the natural manGiving wild ripostes to my reflectionOne ugly morningIn a rageFather threw an appleInto my carapaceAnd like the invisible manDirecting trafficI d be ineffectiveNo matter how enthusiasticAmid the masses frenzyParticipationIn this massiveSeparationAppearance is everythingNothing is how it seemsAnd civilized societyIs calm civilityI m the phantom of the operaSinging beauty and at easeOr Henry Darger sAutobiographyAnd that is curt clues to my essencePlanned obsolescenceAppeara...

Don't Suck, Don't Die: Giving Up Vic Chesnutt
  • English
  • 19 September 2019
  • Hardcover
  • 180 pages
  • 0292759479
  • Kristin Hersh
  • Don't Suck, Don't Die: Giving Up Vic Chesnutt