RIP Vic Chesnutt

Photo by Jem Cohen

Music lost one of the great ones on Christmas day, when Athens, Georgia's Vic Chesnutt - who had been in a coma since earlier in the week from an overdose of muscle relaxers - passed away. Chesnutt was 45 years old.

Wheel chair-bound since a car accident when he was just 18, Chesnutt survived to make some of the most cynical, dark and humorous music of the last 20 years. He was a warm soul who will truly be missed.

Read Rolling Stone's report on Chesnutt's death here.

Donate to Vic's family here.