Drunk [Bonus Tracks]

Personnel: Vic Chesnutt (vocals, whistling, guitar, acoustic guitar, nylon-string guitar, harmonica, piano, Fender Rhodes piano, sampler); Vic Chesnutt (baritone ukulele, synthesizer); Syd Straw (vocals); Rob Veal (guitar, slide guitar, drums, background vocals); Jeorge Seder (bass guitar); Norman van der Sluys, Mark Cooper Smith, Norman Der Sluys (drums); John Keane (slide guitar); Scott Stuckey (background vocals).
Audio Remasterer: Gavin Lurssen.
Liner Note Author: Ian MacKaye.
Recording information: Aunt Mabel's House, Eastman, GA (08/25/1994); Full Moon Studios, Watkinsville, GA (08/25/1994); Inner Ear, Washington DC (08/25/1994); Mackenzie Roberson Studios, Athens, GA (08/25/1994).
Vic Chesnutt's third album, 1994's DRUNK, is the Athens, Georgia-based singer/songwriter's first that was not produced by his early mentor Michael Stipe. Chesnutt leaves behind the deliberately lo-fi production of his two previous releases and incorporates electric instrumentation into his small-combo arrangements for the first time. The result is a tremendous, thought-provoking, funny, and painful record.
Like the similarly wheelchair-bound singer/songwriter Robert Wyatt, Chesnutt regularly addresses his medical and physical condition in his work, here in the slyly rueful "Gluefoot" and the harrowing "Supernatural." Yet also like Wyatt, Chesnutt never allows his illness to define him, focusing on other aspects of his life on obviously autobiographical tunes like "Kick My Ass" and "When I Ran Odd and Left Her." Other highlights include a Stevie Smith poem set to music, "One of Many," and "Sleeping Man," which appears in both a straightforward acoustic version and the wild, psychedelic "Syd Version."