Ray Vernon & The Raymen - Big City After Dark
The Who’s producer
drums and synthesizers established the band’s foundational elements
his 2006 companion album to the previous year’s Illinois
DON'T SUCK, DON'T DIE: Giving Up Vic Chesnutt by Kristin Hersh BOOK space rock Ray Vernon & The Raymen200 pages, hardcover. Friend, asshole, angel, mutant, singer songwriter Vic Chesnutt came along and made us gross and broken people seem . . . I dunno, cooler, I guess. A quadriplegic who could play only simple chords on his guitar, Chesnutt recorded seventeen critically acclaimed albums before his death in 2009, including About to Choke, North Star Deserter, and At the Cut. In 2006, NPR placed him in the top five of the ten best living songwriters,