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Track Listing
1. Sleeping Man
2. Bourgeois and Biblical
3. One of Many
4. Supernatural
5. When I Ran Off and Left Her
6. Dodge
7. Gluefoot
8. Drunk
9. Naughty Fatalist
10. Super Tuesday
11. Sleeping Man - (Syd Version)
12. Kick My Ass
13. (Untitled) - (hidden track)
14. Cutty Sark - (hidden track)
Album Notes
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."
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