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t’s with a lot of sadness that I pass along news that the great singer-songwriter Vic Chesnutt died yesterday, aged 45. He’d been in a coma and some reports indicate that was as the result of a suicide attempt. A paraplegic since a car accident in his teen years, Chesnutt was reportedly facing $70,000 in medical bills due to recent surgery and was unable to pay. I have no idea if that fed into his possible suicide attempt.

I once saw Chesnutt play a show in San Diego back in 1992 or so. I bought a cassette tape of his wonderful album “West of Rome” off him at the show and chatted with him for a bit. Nice guy. It sucks that he’s gone. RIP.

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