The path to success in the music industry is difficult for anyone, and the late-singer songwriter Vic Chesnutt had a harder road than most.

Vic, who passed away in 2009 on Christmas Day, had written songs since childhood. At the age of eighteen, a car accident took away his ability to walk and gave him just “limited use” of his hands. A gifted guitar player, Vic could now play only simple chords. This is something that every musician out there who uses their hands to create has likely contemplated, if just for a moment, but for Vic, it was a day-to-day reality.

Now, Vic’s many friends and admirers are holding a pair of concerts in his memory at Athens, Georgia’s 40 Watt Club. read more