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About Me

I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4 Melanie Sue Mausser is a singer-songwriter whose music is embedded in the rural roots traditions she grew up with.Wanting only to write simple songs that reflect the simple things of life, Melanie has recently traded in a life of Arizona cowboys and Jack Daniels for Iowa farmboys and Bud Light. Her attempts to convey sarcasm and wit, as well as mildly present depressing theses on the nature of love and bad relationships have so far met with excellent response from audiences throughout the Midwest and West.Born and raised in Iowa, Melanie began classical piano training at the age of four and picked up guitar in her early 20s. Songwriting began as a form of therapy following a bad breakup in Florida in which her ex-boyfriend decided to move across the street from her with a new girl two weeks following their lovers' demise. From there her music career began. Melanie doesn't want to pretend to be anything she's not anymore so she hopes only that her music is seen by fans as beautiful and real. As she grows into her 30-year old skin and sheds the layers of insecure adolescence and early adulthood, she vows from now on to write songs that are heartfelt and honest, even if a bit goofy and few and far between, as long as they are never trite.Her first CD, "Cadillac Daddy" is now available at CD Baby.

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Member Since: 1/13/2006
Band Website: melaniesuemausser.com
Influences: Emmylou Harris, Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn, Tammy Wynette, June Carter Cash, Beth Orton, Shelby Lynne, Kelly Willis, Tift Merritt, Laura Cantrell, Patty Loveless, Nanci Griffith, Sally Ellysonplus stuff that happens to me, history, heartbreak, loneliness, chickens, and the history of heartbreak, loneliness and chickens
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Work Day Morning

In the pre-dawn dim we stomp and shake and tryto shake this new day off like wet, muddy dogs;the streetlamps suffer the rise of sun to its exalted postand a thousand vacant voices teeter on absenceThe...
Posted by Melanie Sue Mausser on Thu, 08 Nov 2007 07:50:00 PST

Good Morning, World

At 2:14 on Sunday morning I am happy to report that I am none the worse for a glass of merlot and one gin and tonic. My gig at the Brewster Cafe was lovely as always and it was awesome to have s...
Posted by Melanie Sue Mausser on Sun, 28 Oct 2007 12:19:00 PST

Weekend Warrior

Just getting home from a gig at that time of day/night when it's just me and the doughnut delivery trucks cruising around, the public flower beds have been trampled by the drunks and a child's stuffed...
Posted by Melanie Sue Mausser on Sun, 21 Oct 2007 04:35:00 PST

The Last Photograph

I found this old poem on a disk given to me by my ex-boyfriend of things on his computer. One day I looked at a picture he had taken of his ex-girlfriend and felt compelled to this. The L...
Posted by Melanie Sue Mausser on Mon, 15 Oct 2007 04:40:00 PST

Whew

I always feel like I should post blogs when I get home from gigs instead of the morning after. Driving home, under the inky perforated skies a million brilliant thoughts come to me. The mo...
Posted by Melanie Sue Mausser on Sun, 07 Oct 2007 10:34:00 PST

An amazing day . . .

Seeing as my midwinter depression started post-summer (i.e. early)this year, I had a most amazing day! It was tremendous to wake up this morning to the sound of popcorn on the roof.&n...
Posted by Melanie Sue Mausser on Sun, 30 Sep 2007 11:14:00 PST

The Theology of a Lonely God

You came to me in a dream last night. We found out more about you on the internet and there were these last words, maybe this video. I'm not certain how, but we were seated acros this big ...
Posted by Melanie Sue Mausser on Thu, 20 Sep 2007 09:13:00 PST

The Crisis Continues

Today I quit my job at the factory. I was tired of being bitched out for doing nothing right and I pounded my right hand knuckle three times with a hammer (hard) yesterday. Tiny circles of...
Posted by Melanie Sue Mausser on Wed, 19 Sep 2007 08:02:00 PST

My friend Lora

I was horribly saddened today to hear of the death of my friend Lora over the weekend in a car accident. Reading of her passing, I burst into tears of anguish knowing that I will never see her a...
Posted by Melanie Sue Mausser on Tue, 18 Sep 2007 06:27:00 PST

Factory Girl

So I've started a pre midlife-crisis job at a toy tractor factory for some extra dough during the Christmas season. Let me just say it makes me hate kids. What the hell do people under 3 f...
Posted by Melanie Sue Mausser on Thu, 13 Sep 2007 02:43:00 PST