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First Aid Kit, Live In Concert: Newport Folk 2012

Folk Alley | By Stephen Thompson
Published July 28, 2012 at 4:28 PM CDT
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The young Swedish sisters in First Aid Kit got their break when their cover of Fleet Foxes' "Tiger Mountain Peasant Song" became a gigantic hit on YouTube, attracting three million views and many comparisons to, well, Fleet Foxes. Don't let Klara and Johanna Söderberg's youth or gender fool you: The duo traffics in the same realm of echo-laden choral folk-pop as hundreds of its prolifically bearded spiritual kin.

Early this year, First Aid Kit broke through with a lovely album called The Lion's Roar, which mixes wearily winsome mountain music with a welcome sunny side in tracks like "Emmylou" — an ode to musical couples seemingly made for the Newport crowd. The Söderbergs don't get enough credit for their more playful side, so look for them to indulge it in an environment ripe for celebration. First Aid Kit performs here as part of the 2012 Newport Folk Festival, recorded live on Saturday, July 28 in Newport, R.I.

Set List:

  • "This Old Routine"

  • "Blue"

  • "Hard Believer"

  • "Our Own Pretty Ways"

  • "Diamonds & Rust"

  • "To A Poet"

  • "Wolf/When I Grow Up"

  • "Emmylou"

  • "I Met Up With the King"

  • "The Lion's Roar"

  • "King of the World"

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    Stephen Thompson
    Stephen Thompson is a writer, editor and reviewer for NPR Music, where he speaks into any microphone that will have him and appears as a frequent panelist on All Songs Considered. Since 2010, Thompson has been a fixture on the NPR roundtable podcast Pop Culture Happy Hour, which he created and developed with NPR correspondent Linda Holmes. In 2008, he and Bob Boilen created the NPR Music video series Tiny Desk Concerts, in which musicians perform at Boilen's desk. (To be more specific, Thompson had the idea, which took seconds, while Boilen created the series, which took years. Thompson will insist upon equal billing until the day he dies.)