Be Less Boring

And thanks for all the great songs.  Singer/songwriter Vic Chesnutt dead from an apparent suicide at age 45.  I first learned of Chesnutt through his collaboration with the Cowboy Junkies on the "Trinity Revisited" album and movie.   He was paralized in a car accident when he was 18 but could still sing and play guitar.  Chesnutt was one of those immensely talented but relatively unknown and underappreciated musicians like Townes Van Zandt and Elliot Smith--musicians all, who were loved and admired by fellow musicians and those individuals who were aware of their work but who never achieved widespread commercial success during their lifetimes, and all of them died too young.

This song, "Flirted With You All My Life", is particularly haunting at this time.

So long, Vic, the world just lost a brilliant but troubled troubador.