First Aid Kit, “Emmylou”
get it on The Lion’s Roar (2012)

We first heard about First Aid Kit (didn’t we?) when the Swedish teenage sisters popped up on YouTube singing Fleet Foxes’s “Tiger Mountain Peasant Song” smack dab in the middle of the forest. Four years later, and we realize that these sisters still love Fleet Foxes AND barren forests.

But even though they’re four years older (funny how that works), they still show their youth on “Emmylou”, a song that packs in both a romantic view for music romances past as well as the the excitement of finding a type of music that you absolutely love and want to copy and worship and preach. And while the first thought may be a condescending “Oh, that’s cute”, this song nails its lofty ambitions as as a tribute to Gram & Emmylou and Johnny & June. And Fleet Foxes.