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First Aid Kit Announce Who By Fire, Live Leonard Cohen Tribute Album
First Aid Kit is back with a live tribute album for Leonard Cohen titled Who By Fire, arriving March 26. It captures their performances at the Royal Dramatic Theater in Stockholm in March of 2017 in 20 tracks. According to the press release, it’s a “theatrical staging of Leonard Cohen’s songs, poems, and letters.” The first single is Cohen’s hit “Suzanne,” which came out in 1967 and has become one of the most-covered songs in Cohen’s catalog. Following Cohen’s November 2016 death, First Aid Kit shared: “… If you ever put a guitar in our hands and ask us to sing, we will always play ‘Suzanne.’ When we heard it for the first time we were transfixed.” About Who By Fire, the duo said in a statement: “We recently listened back to this concert and realized that this was something out ...
First Aid Kit Share Cover of Willie Nelson’s ‘On the Road Again’
First Aid Kit are looking back on what tour life on the road was like in their new video for “On The Road Again.” Johanna and Klara Söderbergtook put their own harmonic spin on the 1980 Willie Nelson classic, which they recorded more than seven years ago. Read First Aid Kit’s statement about the track below: “We’re excited to release our version of “On The Road Again” by Willie Nelson. We recorded this cover a couple of years ago and recently found it while digging through the archives. The song is a country classic, it feels like we’ve known it forever. Because of the situation with COVID, sadly, the theme of the song has never felt more relevant than it does today. We made a video for the song using cellphone footage from our tours throughout the years. Going through all those videos mad...
