The series of tribute concerts was a theatrical staging of songs, poems and letters by the late Montreal legend, featuring fellow Swedish guest artists, an eight-piece band with strings, a choir of 20 (on two songs) and two actors. In the last week of March, First Aid Kit released a live album called Who by Fire, a collection of 20 Leonard Cohen covers performed at Stockholm’s Royal Dramatic Theatre in March of 2017, a few months after Cohen’s passing. I heard that music that you hear around that time stays with you forever and becomes part of your identity, and that’s how I feel about his music.
I was maybe 12 or 13, so Johanna would’ve been 14 or 15 at the time. I was just totally taken by his words and songs. I remember very clearly hearing ‘Suzanne’ for the first time and just being absolutely blown away by it. “‘Suzanne’ is the first song off of that. “Connor Oberst was talking about this guy Leonard Cohen and I was like, ‘Who is that?’ and our parents brought out this record, “ Klara said, showing me a greatest hits vinyl on Zoom. It was through Oberst’s Bright Eyes project that sisters Klara and Johanna Söderberg discovered the kind of folk and Americana that would influence their music. Swedish folk duo First Aid Kit had a busy decade, releasing four albums between 20, touring, collecting awards and making connections with some of their childhood heroes like Conor Oberst.
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