Premiere: Aaron Semer’s “Son of the Morning Star”
Today we exclusively premiere Aaron Semer’s “Son of the Morning Star,” the first song on his new album Love Amidst Collapse, which is scheduled for a December 10 release on Knick Knack Records, the same date Aaron will celebrate with a performance at Conor Byrne in Ballard.
Of the song, Semer (who’s lead and performed with a host of great Seattle bands including the Plains, the My My Hey Heys and Marmot vs. Mammoth) says: “that’s the name Native Americans called Custer. I had been reading about Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull and I kept imagining how they would view America today. Since the album is inspired by the collapse of Western society, I imagined them singing out to Custer’s ghost. Essentially, ‘you may have won for awhile, but our ways will be coming back.'”
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