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Skitter on Take-Off is the final album by Vic Chesnutt. It was his only album for Vapor Records. A different version of "Sewing Machine" was originally included on brute's 1995 release Nine High a Pallet (brute consisted of Vic Chesnutt backed by the members of Widespread Panic).
Dec 29, 2009 · Skitter On Take-Off was recorded almost immediately after At The Cut, confirming this as an undeniably fruitful period of his life. “When I came back from Montreal after recording At The Cut ,” he elaborates, “I had a week before I was going to record with Jonathan, and I was so inspired by these guys in Montreal that I wrote 16 songs ...
Oct 6, 2009 · Skitter on Take-off is in the mode of Robert Johnson’s recordings: quiet, worried-man blues glowing hesitantly in the dark, shaky, uncertain, spare — just enough song to keep the devil at...
Oct 6, 2009 · Vic Chesnutt - Skitter on Take-Off Lyrics and Tracklist | Genius. Skitter on Take-Off. Vic Chesnutt. Released October 6, 2009. Skitter on Take-Off Tracklist. 1....
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An adoptee, Chesnutt was raised in Zebulon, Georgia, where he first started writing songs at the age of five. When he was 13, Chesnutt declared that he was an atheist, a position that he maintained for the rest of his life. At 18, while drinking and driving, a car accident left him partially paralyzed; in a December 1, 2009 interview with Terry Gro...
Around 1985, Chesnutt moved to Athens and joined the bandLa-Di-Das with future member of the Dashboard Saviors Todd McBride. After leaving that group, he began performing solo on a regular basis at the 40 Watt Club; it was there that he was spotted by Michael Stipe of R.E.M. Stipe went on to produce Chesnutt's first two albums, Little (1990) and We...
Chesnutt collaborated with Bob Mould to record a version of Gram Parsons' song, "Hickory Wind", which appeared on the 1993 compilation, Conmemorativo: A Tribute to Gram Parsons. He recorded with many other groups and artists. He made two albums with fellow Athens group Widespread Panic, under the name of brute. Chesnutt wrote "Aunt Avis" and co-wro...
Chesnutt's first four albums were released on the independent Texas Hotel label. He then recorded About to Choke (1996) for Capitol Records. The Salesman and Bernadette (1998) was on PolyGram; Merriment (2000) was on the Backburner Records label; spinART was the label for the self-performed and recorded Left to His Own Devices (2001). Chesnutt then...
Chesnutt provided a powerful performance of the 1972 Bobby Russell-penned classic song, "The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia" on Pravda Records' 1994 "Star Power" CD featuring various artists. Chesnutt sang another, much older, classic song, "Home on the Range", based on the poem, "The Western Home", written in 1872 by Dr. Brewster M. Higley, ...
Chesnutt died on Christmas Day 2009 from an overdose of muscle relaxants that had left him in a coma in an Athens hospital. He was 45 years old. In his final interview, which aired on National Public Radio24 days before his death, Chesnutt said that he had "attempted suicide three or four times [before]. It didn't take." According to him in the sam...
The Canadian alt-country band Cowboy Junkies recorded an album called Demons after his death, released on January 18, 2011. A tribute to Chesnutt, it features his songs. Conor Oberst of Bright Eyesdescribed Chestnutt as “one of the greatest ever,” and released a cover of Chestnutt’s song “Flirted with You All My Life” in 2021. Kristin Hersh wrote a...
1990 Little1991 West of Rome1993 Drunk1995 Is the Actor Happy? (with liner notes by Forrest Gander)The Rabbits are Cooking Breakfast: A Vic Chesnutt Page Archived February 27, 2014, at the Wayback MachineVic Chesnutt at CurlieVic Chesnutt at AllMusicVic Chesnutt And Mr. And Mrs. Keneipp. Explore the tracklist, credits, statistics, and more for Skitter On Take-Off by Vic Chesnutt. Compare versions and buy on Discogs.
Nov 17, 2009 · Skitter On Take-Off is a short album; all nine songs clock in at well under 40 minutes. The songs have a way of insinuating themselves into your core. Richman and Larkin’s instincts were spot on. This is the way Vic Chesnutt should be heard: at his rawest, unfiltered, most provocative best.
