Indie rock veteran Sue Garner was born and raised in Cave Spring, GA, later attending art school in Atlanta before settling in New York and joining the city's nascent No Wave scene via her band Vietnam. Stints in cult favorites including the Last Round Up, the Shams and Fish & Roses (the latter including husband Rick Brown) followed before Garner joined the underground supergroup Run On in 1992; upon dissolving the project, she made her solo debut in 1998 with To Run More Smoothly. Still appeared two years later.