(06-26-2019, 01:13 AM)Star Ranger4 Wrote: Mercedes herself did some of her songs? The ones I've heard were Leslie singing what she wrote. Though I will admit that I didn't really get interested in Ms Lackey and Valdemar until around CoH Sunset when I found out she had been such a supporter; at that point between her Hidden World Stories, etc, I figured she was worth reading further
and OI did I read.
Yeah; she wasn't quite as trained at the playing and singing as Fish or, say, Heather Alexander, so there're a few false notes, but I found the remarks, mostly quips, she tossed into and around several of the songs more than make up for it. The prologues that explain what was going through her head when she wrote "Mazianni" — she had a really awful boss "whose name shall be changed to protect the guilty" — and "Massacre" — the Oklahoma cult of "Lawn Worship." And some background as to why the performer of "Rat's Falkener Slobber Song" wants to find a blond boyfriend — or anyway, teases tall, blond Thomas Mondragon by publicly singing that she does.
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"The Lady of the Lake, her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite, held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water, signifying by divine providence that this was some killer weed."
"The Lady of the Lake, her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite, held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water, signifying by divine providence that this was some killer weed."