I’m very sad this week because Vic Chesnutt, an amazing musician who faced down demonic depression for years, took his own life — finally. He’d tried it several times, and in fact wrote about his romance with suicide in a song called “Flirted With It All My Life.” Though he had new albums out and was supposedly looking forward, when I heard his recent interview with Terry Gross, I had an awful thought: “This man will die by his own hand.” I just didn’t expect it to be so soon. He was such an amazing poet and thinker and dreamer and grouch.
I’m very sad this week because Vic Chesnutt, an amazing musician who faced down demonic depression for years, took his own life — finally. He’d tried it several times, and in fact wrote about his romance with suicide in a song called “Flirted With It All My Life.” Though he had new albums out and was supposedly looking forward, when I heard his recent interview with Terry Gross, I had an awful thought: “This man will die by his own hand.” I just didn’t expect it to be so soon. He was such an amazing poet and thinker and dreamer and grouch.
Vic Chesnutt’s Last Song: Folk-Rocker Dead at 45 [Village Voice]