{"id":688,"date":"2012-08-30T18:33:20","date_gmt":"2012-08-30T18:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/?p=688"},"modified":"2019-11-12T16:15:28","modified_gmt":"2019-11-12T16:15:28","slug":"first-aid-kit-cover-america-paul-simon-123","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/688\/first-aid-kit-cover-america-paul-simon-123\/","title":{"rendered":"First Aid Kit Cover Paul Simon: America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"America - First Aid Kit (Paul Simon cover)\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vBwKp6QhIvE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-689\" title=\"First Aid Kit America Paul Simon Cover\" src=\"http:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/first-aid-kit-america-paul-simon-300x217.jpg\" alt=\"First Aid Kit America Paul Simon Cover\" width=\"240\" height=\"174\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/first-aid-kit-america-paul-simon-300x217.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/first-aid-kit-america-paul-simon.jpeg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/>We&#8217;ve seen First Aid Kit bring Patti Smith to tears with their moving\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/2012\/03\/first-aid-kit-dancing-barefoot-patti-smith\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">cover of &#8220;Dancing Barefoot&#8221;<\/a> at an event honoring the rock legend. But now the Swedish duo have turned their attention to Paul Simon, whose career was feted by the\u00a0Polar Music Prize this week. Performing at the event in Sweden, First Aid Kit unveiled an impressive take on 1972 Simon and Garfunkel hit &#8220;America,&#8221; complete with a full backing orchestra and those stunning harmonies we&#8217;ve come to expect from the duo. Don&#8217;t take our word for it, though, as Simon himself was particularly taken with the rendition, offering a lone standing ovation to the S\u00f6derberg after the tune&#8217;s bittersweet finale. What&#8217;s more we have an official clip of the moment captured on film (via <a href=\"http:\/\/fakewalls.com\/blog\/2012\/8\/29\/watch-first-aid-kit-perform-america-for-paul-simon.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fake Walls<\/a>), so without further ado, revisit their latest brilliant trip to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/post\/1203769871\/first-aid-kit-cover-fever-ray-release-ghost-town\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">covers<\/a> department above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve seen First Aid Kit bring Patti Smith to tears with their moving\u00a0cover of &#8220;Dancing Barefoot&#8221; at an event honoring the rock legend. But now the Swedish duo have turned their attention to Paul Simon, whose career was feted by the\u00a0Polar Music Prize this week. Performing at the event in Sweden, First Aid Kit unveiled &#8230; <a title=\"First Aid Kit Cover Paul Simon: America\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/688\/first-aid-kit-cover-america-paul-simon-123\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=688"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1721,"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions\/1721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}