Vic Chesnutt-The Salesman and Bernadette (1998)


 

Artist: Vic Chesnutt


Label: Capricorn

Format: CD

Cat:  314 538 239-2

Year of Release: 1998

Country and Year of Edition: US 1998 digipak

Sell Price: $3.60

Sell Date: 12/28/23

Condition: VG+/VG 2" seam split on digi spine

Discogs Last Sold  9/25/23 VG+/VG+ $2.50

Low: $0.69

Median: $2.97

Average: $2.97

High: $6.00

Current low price: $2.75

Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 30

Have/Want: 335/25

Where Sold: Bowling Green, OH

Time It Took To Sell:  11 years

Where and When Bought: internet new 1998

Gwiz-gau Letter Grade:  B+

Sad To See It Go: No

Vic Chesnutt's 6th album of a 17 album career that ended in suicide in 2009 at age 45.  This Athens, Georgia songwriting legend was a paraplegic from a car crash at 18 who somehow retained enough to play guitar and have an entire music career in this condition, but it still ultimately led him to hospital debt and depression.  He was an active performer until the end and released three albums in his final year.

This particular album got him a bit of acclaim in 1998, seemingly more than he had before or after.  This might have been due to the Sweet Relief compilation for him in 1996 with bigger artists doing his songs.  I remembered him from the debut Texas Hotel label release Little but this was the only one I ever bought.  Certainly a catalog for further review for me in the life long list of artists I never put much time into that probably deserve it if there were more hours in the day and dollars in the bank to buy their music.

One odd thing listening to this album multiple times is that Chesnutt's voice sounds a little like Cat Stevens.  Two very different artists from radically different generations and aesthetics, but maybe they really aren't that far apart.  This album was primarily backed by the Nashville band Lambchop and has Emmylou Harris on "Woodrow Wilson" as The Recollected Voice of Bernadette.

Bookish in general to a story possibly too abstract to care about, the standout tracks for me were  "Replenished" and " Until The Led."  Maybe because they seemed to have some life in them.  "Parade" is another good one with imagery of dripping Vitalis and Joe Namath.  

It's a double whammy to criticize this further. 

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