By recording a few albums with fan from the very beginning Michael Stipe (REM), Vic Chesnutt slowly but surely gained cult status. On Ghetto Bells, it is again not the least who play along with the singer / songwriter from Athens (Georgia) who at the age of eighteen got involved in a car accident after which he had to go through life in a wheelchair. Van Dyke Parks, for example, famous lyricist,
… composer and arranger who, in addition to his solo projects, is known for his collaboration on albums by Brian Wilson and Rufus Wainwright. Or guitarist Bill Frisell, a big name in jazz. Chesnutt's songs are slow and dragging and are stiff with tension. The musicians know how to create an alternately lovely (Vesuvius) and ominous (To Be With You) atmosphere. Ghetto Bells is not an easy album with accessible melodies, but an atmospheric and introverted piece of work. (MS)more
