Rat Saw God: CD Blondshell In late 1996

In late 1996

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Rat Saw God: CD Blondshell In late 1996A Wednesday song is a quilt. A short story collection, a half memory, a patchwork of portraits of the American south, disparate moments that somehow make sense as a whole. Karly Hartzman, the songwriter vocalist guitarist at the helm of the project, is a story collector as much as she is a storyteller: a scholar of people and one liners. Rat Saw God, the Asheville quintets new and best record, is ekphrastic but autobiographical and above all, deeply