THEY come from the land of Dancing Queen, Mamma Mia and Super Trouper.
Yet it’s taken well over a decade in the music business for First Aid Kit’s Klara and Johanna Söderberg to channel their inner Abba.
When the sisters from Sweden started out, they looked to Americana for inspiration . . . that indefinable fusion of folk, country, rock and gospel.
They first got noticed for pure, sweet harmonies on a cover of Fleet Foxes’ Tiger Mountain Peasant Song.
Among their early triumphs was the song Emmylou, dedicated to alt-country pioneers Emmylou Harris and Gram Parsons, whose music helped provide the soundtrack to their lives.