| garden variety tsar is composed of one chris rasmussen. started in late 2001 as a monicker for whatever songs he was composing at the time, chris has made three records and played numberous shows. the lates gvt release is "smoke and paper moons," recorded by jackson long at studio hear me shimmer and released on west of january records. on "smoke and paper moons," rasmussen's songs have been given full band arrangments by the short lived partitions, consisting of ian pollock on drums and chris warner on bass. while a new full band lineup slowly builds, rasmussen continues to play solo shows. |