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The New Year's edition of the Song-a-Week series from Southerly is this song: "Where Sterling is Gold."  It's the fourth song from Southerly frontman/songwriter Krist Krueger -- released weekly at opbmusic this winter.

Here are Krueger's notes about the song:

" 'Where Sterling is Gold' was written for my maternal Grandmother and first performed as an offering at her funeral. Sterling is a reference to the town where she was born and raised - Sterling, Kansas. She suffered from Alzheimer's disease. For a period she resorted back to her earlier memory thinking that she was a teenager prior to even having married my Grandfather. One question and curiosity I had concerned a symptom that in some cases Alzheimer's patients will, near their end, regain memory even if only for a moment. One night when she was in hospice she awoke, looking healthy and energetic and said 'I remember.' To which my Mother asked 'What do you remember?' My Grandmother looked at her and said 'Everything.' After that she declined again and was no longer able to respond verbally. She was a grand woman and this is my tribute to her."

"Where Sterling is Gold" (written and performed by Krist Krueger)

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See the whole Southerly Song-a-Week series.

 

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