Genre: R&B/Soul/Urban
Decades Active: 90s
From rural Missisippi, Dunaway uses balloons, bottle brushes, and standard instruments for songs about monsters, nudity, death, and immigration. Her songs range in style from rock to salsa to country to blues to noise, suspended over irregular rhythms and forms that often incorporate free improvisation. This is experimental but not at all... [+] Read More
Vic Chesnutt
Genre: Rock/Pop
Decades Active: 90s, 00s
Though Michael Stipe had been a fan of Vic Chesnutt since the late '80s, producing his first two full-lengths, it took the Sweet Relief Two tribute album to make a star of him in mid-1996. The album featured artists such as Madonna, Hootie & the Blowfish, Smashing Pumpkins and R.E.M. covering the songs of Chesnutt, a paraplegic who was injured... [+] Read More
