{"id":2653,"date":"2015-11-16T23:38:38","date_gmt":"2015-11-17T06:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocc.org\/?p=2653"},"modified":"2015-11-16T23:38:38","modified_gmt":"2015-11-17T06:38:38","slug":"song-of-the-day-fraser-ross-sweet-kisses-silver-flowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/2015\/11\/16\/song-of-the-day-fraser-ross-sweet-kisses-silver-flowers\/","title":{"rendered":"SONG OF THE DAY: Fraser Ross- &#8220;Sweet Kisses \/ Silver Flowers&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rV5xeXEZER4?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Last Saturday I explored\u00a0the second annual LitCrawl in Wellington, New Zealand. LitCrawl is a celebration of art, literature, and spoken word, and hosts\u00a0performances and readings in some of the city&#8217;s most\u00a0hidden and most beloved venues. At around 9 pm I found myself in Alistair&#8217;s Music Shop at an event simplistically\u00a0called &#8216;Writing Tunes &amp; Playing Poetry&#8217;. The shop was small, and because\u00a0my friends and I were the last to arrive we\u00a0were ushered into a corner at\u00a0the front of the room next to where the artists would perform, the only space left in the shop. As I sat\u00a0cross legged, trying to make myself small amongst the acoustic guitars hanging above my head and the audience staring awkwardly at me, the first artist appeared from a little back room at the front of the store.<\/p>\n<p>He introduced himself as Fraser Ross, a New Zealand native. He was tall, skinny, and (don&#8217;t make fun of me for using this term), trendy. He wore green skinny pants, a tweed jacket, round glasses, and an oddly stylish bowler hat that I truly believe only he could pull off.\u00a0He was soft spoken, and in the short time that I saw him\u00a0I understood that he was humble. This song was one of the three that he performed, and it has stuck with me since that night. He said that it&#8217;s about an old girlfriend of his that moved back to her hometown in Scotland. He sang this to her the night before she left. He didn&#8217;t tell us how the relationship went after that.<\/p>\n<p>The song is beautiful. The lyrics are\u00a0vulnerable, modest, and above all, loving. When he performed in Alistair&#8217;s he was only equipped with a guitar. On the track he is backed by a\u00a0band, the Felt Tips,\u00a0allowing the song to take on a\u00a0fuller form. I haven&#8217;t been able to stop listening to it. Maybe because of the\u00a0gut wrenching honesty in it, maybe because I saw him live on a night that has stuck in my mind, or maybe because it&#8217;s simply a good song &#8211; I don&#8217;t know but you should really give it a listen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Saturday I explored\u00a0the second annual LitCrawl in Wellington, New Zealand. LitCrawl is a celebration of art, literature, and spoken word, and hosts\u00a0performances and readings in some of the city&#8217;s most\u00a0hidden and most beloved venues. At around 9 pm I found myself in Alistair&#8217;s Music Shop at an event simplistically\u00a0called &#8216;Writing Tunes &amp; Playing Poetry&#8217;. 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