Leigh Green

***This page contains spoilers for the newly-released Vide Noir film. It is highly recommended to watch the movie before reading.***

## Appearances

### Appears in

*Alive From Whispering Pines*"Long Lost" music video

**Leigh Green**, also known as **Lee Green**, is a singer and musician signed with Tubbs Tarbell’s Whispering Pine Studios. She started out singing standards before recording her debut pop album *Wildflower* for Whispering Pines under the stage name **Fleur**.

Her second album, *A Natural Feeling,* which was released under her own name, uses folk music to examine flora, fauna, and all manner of mysteries. She plays acoustic guitar and piano, and is sometimes accompanied by Hauser Godwin of the Villagers on the record.

## Description and appearances

In her early singing career, Green wears her hair long and sports glamorous movie star style. Green is depicted as a young woman with a wavy blonde bob and a floral dress with a yellow cardigan in the Broken Bottle and in Tarbell’s photo album.

In the late 60s, Green moved from Detroit to L.A., quitting her job serving beers in a dive to pursue her dream of becoming a singer, and leaving her fiancé Buck Vernon.

Rumors say the recording sessions for *Wildflower* were a harrowing struggle, as Green was in the grips of crippling drug dependency, which she eventually overcame. The result is an uneven, occasionally inspired portrait of a young artist searching for her voice and her footing in the world. The album appears to chronicle her journey leaving Detroit and subsequent events from her life.

During this time, Green was in a relationship with Z'Oiseau, who helped her to get time in the recording studio and gave her the stage name Fleur, but also got her hooked on Vide Noir. She rarely showed up for sessions, and when she did, she was high on the drug.

She went on to have a fruitful stint with the Villagers and also started performing solo under her real name, Leigh Green.

Hauser Godwin plays "Long Lost" with Green.

## Music

### Fleur – *Wildflower*

Label: Whispering Pines Studios
Catalog Number: WP-0023
Format: Vinyl, 12", 33 ⅓ RPM, Album
Country: US
Genre: Folk, World, Country
**Tracklist**

### *A Natural Feeling*

Label: Whispering Pines Studios
Catalog Number: WP-0073
Format: Vinyl, 12", 33 ⅓ RPM, Album
Country: US
Genre: Folk, Country
* "Long Lost"
* "A Natural Feeling"

### Cover versions

From Lord Huron's *Long Lost*:
* "Long Lost"

## Trivia

* Green was born in May, so her birth stone is emerald and her birth flower Lily of the Valley.
* She always gave Tubbs Tarbell a hard time for smoking. When he finds an old "hidey hole" where he stashed a pack of cigarettes, he discovers a note she left him reading "Who do you think you are fooling, you old dummy?" He laughs and explains she always did have his number, but she was just looking out for him. Tarbell also states she was "one helluva kid and one helluva singer too - once she found her voice."
* "Motor City" is a nickname for the city of Detroit.

## Questions and fan theories

* Prior to *Vide Noir,* Buck Vernon's love interest is referred to as Louisa. Is Green the same person? Why the name change?
	+ It seems likely that Vernon wrote about Green but changed her name for his songs.

* In Buck Vernon's "Fool for Love", the protagonist pursues a woman named Lily. This may be another name for Green: the French word for "lily" is "lys," which sounds like Leigh, and Green already has a French stage name "Fleur," which means flower.

* Could The Emerald Star be a metaphor for Leigh, given that her last name is "Green?" In "Lost in Time and Space," Buck says he is "blind without her source of light." In "Emerald Star," Buck compares Leigh to a jewel and sings "you're an emerald in the sky." If so, the words "follow the emerald star" at the end of "The Balancer's Eye" could be a reference to Buck following Leigh.

* Is there a connection between Green and Lee Avery?

* It seems likely that Remy Fusil wrote "La Belle Fleur Sauvage" about Green, given her stage name and first album. Did Fusil have a crush on or relationship with Green?

* On Green's album *Wildflower* (as Fleur), "Blackbird's Song" could be a reference to Z'Oiseau. When translated from French to English, the name means "the bird."

* In the video for "Love Me Like You Used To," a middle-aged blonde woman wearing a vest with flowers on it visits the Whispering Pines Museum to reminisce, before burning it to the ground in a shocking twist. She seems to have intimate knowledge of both Quentin King and the song he is singing. Could the woman be Green, and did King steal her song, or was it written about her?

## Gallery

Green in *Vide Noir*Leigh Green - A Natural FeelingGreen in Tarbell's photo albumLeigh Green and Hauser Godwin singing Long Lost in episode 117Leigh Green's photo hiding Tarbell's cigarette stashLeigh Green - "Long Lost"
## Sources

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Discogs
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 *Long Lost* vinyl cover details
3. ↑ Article explaining why Detroit is called "Motor City"