Vic Chesnutt
Is The Actor Happy
Is The Actor Happy? is a reissue of the 1995 concept album about playing live and is typically packed with smart self-depracation ('i'm a reluctant rebel / i was born to be Aaron Neville'). Less typically - following as it does the stark and aptly ulcerous Drunk - this is a chipper old set, fleshed out with arresting pop hooks and country curlicues, while being concerned with relatively life-affirming things like nipples. Now includes six previously unreleased tracks including a collaboration with Lambchop.
Tracklist
1. Gravity of the Situation
2. Sad Peter Pan
3. Strange Language
4. Onion Soup
5. Doubting Woman
6. Wrong Piano
7. Free of Hope
8. Betty Lonely
9. Thumbtack
10. Thailand
11. Guilty by Association
12. Assist (Bonus Track)
13. What Surrounds Me (Bonus Track)
14. Duck in a Tree (Live) (Bonus Track)
15. Parameters (Live) (Bonus Track)
16. Thailand (Early Version) (Bonus Track)
17. Fun Party/Shoestring Store (Bonus Track)
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