Jonathan RichmanVic ChesnuttThe double-bill of the month, if not the season... To make it even better, each artist has a bunch of new songs since their last appearance in MN. Vic Chesnutt released last September arguably his best album ever, North Star Deserter, while Jonathan Richman has a brand new album Because Her Beauty is Raw and Wild coming out on Vapor Records in March! Jonathan has been writing songs, making records and performing live for most of his life, from his early beginnings with The Modern Lovers through a long, endearing solo career. Winning fans and making friends around the world with his guileless honesty and playfully catchy compositions, he is also revered by countless fellow artists, and has built a remarkably loyal international audience through his tireless touring. His deceptively straightforward songs embody timeless qualities of humanity, optimism, emotional insight and a boundless sense of humor, untainted by cynicism or transient notions of hipness. Meanwhile, prolific, profound, and ever full of potty-mouthed piss-and-vinegar - Vic Chesnutt is Prometheus in a wheelchair with a battered guitar – a freak-folk trailblazer, spilling his heart and soul and spleen into the microphone, with a sly drawl, dripping humid, Southern gothic imagery in calamitous, sometimes comic songs worthy of a Greek tragedy.