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WATCH: Larkin Poe Deliver the Healing Power of the Blues in Paste Session

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Blues is alive and well with sister duo Larkin Poe. In December, the pair were featured on Paste Studio on the Road: Nashville, an adapted version of Paste’s normal video concert series from New York City. This installment comes from Instrumenthead Live Studio in Music City and safely presents the roaring, gritty style of Rebecca and Megan Lovell. Although the audience is smaller than their usual draw, Larkin Poe perform the only way they know how: at full blast.

With more time for writing and recording falling into their laps over the course of the last year, Larkin Poe were hard at work, releasing not one, but two full-length studio records in 2020. The most recent, a covers collection called Kindred Spirits, was released on November 20 on Tricki-Woo Records. It comes on the heels of the June release of Self Made Man, which climbed to No. 1 on the Billboard blues chart. Visceral energy, raw emotion, and pure, unadulterated badass-edness jump out of the screen in this Paste session, satisfying the craving if only for a moment, for live entertainment that we’ve been so deprived of this year. Watch the exhilarating duo below.

Photo credit: Bree Marie Fish

The Show On The Road – Larkin Poe

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This week, we finish off this season of The Show On The Road with a powerful, Southern sister act that has been wowing audiences around the world with their transformative take on stomping blues and cagey, slide-guitar-driven rock ‘n’ roll: Larkin Poe.


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As it is nearly Halloween it would behoove us to mention that Rebecca Lovell (who sings lead) and Megan Lovell, (who commands the stellar slide-work) are indeed distant relatives of Edgar Allan Poe. Their name came from another long-gone grandfather, however, after their eldest singing sister Jessica stepped away from the band, leaving the younger sisters to contemplate if they wanted to continue playing bluegrassy, harmony-rich folk music — which had gotten them on shows like A Prairie Home Companion — or to strike out in a new direction.

Taking inspiration from their frontiersmen-inspired family, who often built and made everything themselves, Rebecca and Megan indeed took DIY to a new level: they have written, produced, and performed nearly all their own records and EPs themselves. They often pay homage to legends like Robert Johnson, Blind Willie Johnson, and more modern greats like The Allman Brothers and The Moody Blues, while they also put their own rawboned stamp on stellar ZZ-Top-esque originals like “Self-Made Man,” which is also the title of their newest record.

While the sisters admit that doing almost everything in-house can be like walking a tricky tightrope, the results have been encouraging. From show-stopping appearances at festivals like Glastonbury, to opening for the revivified touring version of Queen (Brian May is a new fan), to headlining the 2020 Mahindra Blues Festival in Mumbai, India, to snagging a Grammy nom for their hard-stomping record, Venom & Faith, one would think that they should keep on following their DIY instincts.

Larkin Poe doesn’t plan on taking it easy even though they haven’t been able to tour in 2020 — in November they will release Kindred Spirits, a collection of beloved stripped-back covers. Stick around to the end of the show to hear their acoustic version of Lenny Kravitz’s “Fly Away.”

Photo credit: Bree Marie Fish

LISTEN: Larkin Poe, “Easy Street”

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Artist: Larkin Poe
Hometown: Atlanta-bred, Nashville-based
Song: “Easy Street”
Album: Self Made Man
Release Date: June 12, 2020
Label: Tricki-Woo

In Their Words: “Every now and again, we all need a little dose of raw optimism to help us get through the darker days. We wrote ‘Easy Street’ direct from the heart and we hope that it’ll be a rainbow for your ears.” — Megan Lovell

“Lyrically, I think Self Made Man is our most uplifting album to date. With so much uncertainty in the world, it feels really good to unleash some unapologetic optimistic.” — Rebecca Lovell

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