“The Lion's Roar” by First Aid Kit

"The Lion's Roar" gave First Aid Kit's 2012 album its name and led it off as the first single, a song written by the Swedish folk band's Klara Söderberg and Johanna Söderberg and released on Wichita Recordings.

Mike Mogis runs the show from behind the glass, producing, engineering and mixing it, and he's in the room too, adding pedal steel, mandolin and percussion. Mattias Bergqvist plays drums and percussion, Ben Brodin piano and Benkt Söderberg bass, with Corina Figueroa Escamilla and Bobby Rubalcava assisting on the engineering. At home it entered the Swedish singles chart at 38 and climbed to 34 the following week.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.