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What people are saying about Silver Lake:Michael Stipe"Top 10 finest songwriters today: Vic Chesnutt"Gary Louris (The Jayhawks)"Who else could write about Emily Post, Band Camp and life through the eyes of an ancient eunuch and make it all work? I listen and I wonder...’Why didn't I think of that?’ No one else sounds like Vic Chesnutt and no one ever will."Tom Waits"Mark Linkous (Sparklehorse) turned me on to Vic Chesnutt. He's fragile like Neil Young, Daniel Johnston and Aaron Neville, songs like strange things you find on the ground. A genuine eccentric and with soul."Victoria Williams"Mark Howard's warm sound and the incredible players compliment Vic's genius and draw me into his world. Yeah Vic!"Van Dyke Parks"Add Vic Chesnutt to your short-list of great Southern Writers. A true Romantic poet! In his works is an unsparing candor, deft and hi-def, leaving the casual listener amazed, deluged and wrung out again-refreshed with truly informed optimism and shoots of ironic humor, sprouting up in most unexpected places."Howe Gelb (Giant Sand)"Silver Lake is representative of the best ... not to mention most indestructible ... singer-songwriter this country has to offer."Ian McKaye (Fugazi)"Vic Chesnutt: the well that never runs dry."Larry Brown (author)"Vic Chesnutt has a goodness in his voice that soars through the rafters, and his songs feel easy on the ears, like summer rain dripping in the night off the eaves."Jonathan Richman and Tommy Larkins"Vic is one of our favorites. As Tommy says, ‘Being around him makes me happy.’ And this new album has some of his great songs and as usual he's very honest and very funny. And ... no one else tells the stories Vic does. And some of the arrangements are beautiful."Kristin Hersh"Vic goes everywhere and does everything and leaves all of us other musicians in the dust...somehow, he is an old man and a young boy and everything in between, too. But mostly, he's the best songwriter in the world and that's a really big deal."Salon Magazine"Chesnutt is one of those rare artists who seem to have been influenced by everybody and nobody, with a voice and style that distinguish him from the cookie-cutter crowd that currently dominates the pop music scene"Top of Page  Close this window |
