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Vic Chesnutt: About To Choke (Capitol)

Ira Robbins, Rolling Stone, 12 December 1996

A RUSTY, banged-up sign with hand-painted words swings slowly over a porch in a light Georgia breeze, conveying its simple promise without need of neon. Parked beneath it in an old wheelchair, strumming a battered acoustic guitar, sits Vic Chesnutt, singing to his own wayward wind.

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