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Post by petej on Sept 6, 2018 9:39:46 GMT
within you and with out you Beatles cover
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Post by petej on Sept 6, 2018 9:42:13 GMT
love this track hope you guys do too
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Post by petej on Sept 6, 2018 9:49:10 GMT
love this too
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Post by Michael Messer on Sept 6, 2018 22:23:34 GMT
Rebecca & Megan are very talented girls. I like their Youtube duets more than anything else I have heard them do. They toured with Elvis Costello a few years ago and they have a cool band, but for me just the two of them is their purest and best music.
Shine On Michael
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Post by leeophonic on Sept 7, 2018 19:55:40 GMT
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Post by Kris on Dec 3, 2018 11:56:14 GMT
I thought this would be a good place to pop up and say hi for my first post on the forum. Thank you so kindly Michael for accepting me as a member. I look very much forward to conversing with everyone.
I've got tickets to see Larkin Poe next year in Brighton and am looking very much forward to it. They are incredibly talented musicians and Rebecca has one beautiful, powerful voice! I agree with you wholeheartedly Michael, I love the duets and fantastic old blues covers these ladies do (and their super re-imaginings of more contemporary songs too!) Some of their studio recordings are a tad overproduced for my personal tastes. It is when they are playing together, in the raw, that the best musical magic is conjured!
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Post by pete1951 on Dec 5, 2018 18:13:02 GMT
Larkin Poe were guests on the BBC blues show (Monday Radio 2 8.00pm). They played live I think. So good. Also a short interview about influences and instruments. Pete
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Post by Deleted on Dec 5, 2018 23:55:32 GMT
They really are excellent even if their moniker suggests a pair of tree surgeons from Somerset.(Old fart alert)There is so much talent abounding in the younger generation. I don't know why I don't just forget all other media and simply surf youtube. It's all on there from eight year old Japanese female John Bonham doppelgangers to Rev. Gary Davis shouting at his wife and all points in between.
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Post by pete1951 on Dec 6, 2018 8:27:53 GMT
They really are excellent even if their moniker suggests a pair of tree surgeons from Somerset.(Old fart alert). The name is a little odd, there is an explanation in the Blues Show interview.......PT
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Post by jono1uk on Dec 6, 2018 8:43:29 GMT
From Wikipedia ""Larkin Poe" was the name of the sisters' great-great-great-great-grandfather"
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Post by Michael Messer on Dec 6, 2018 10:13:21 GMT
Graeme's "Old Fart Alert" comment does bring up an interesting point, especially for me because I too have experienced a similar situation through the naughties with my Second Mind Band.
This is all to do with their demographic and not reaching a young audience.
Larkin Poe are great musicians and it is wonderful to see two girls in their late 20s becoming so successful. Now, I doubt if they give a darn at this time, but their audience is not people of their own age. They flew to London from Spain a few days ago, just to do a few media promotions for their coming UK dates. These were for BBC Radio 2, and I believe Mojo and one or two others. These are all mainly listened to and read by Baby Boomers and forty plus age groups. I know the Radio 2 blues show is pushing to reach a younger audience, but as the younger audience don't listen to the radio, I don't think it will happen. Most of the promoters they are working with in Europe are Blues & Roots promoters. I know many of them and they do not put on bands that attract young audiences.
They have gone home to tour with Bob Seger, who as far as I know hasn't made a successful record since the seventies. These are massive shows and they are experiencing fantastic success, but they are not reaching people of their own age, which I think is sad and very much a sign of how tastes have changed and moved on.
While the girls do and have used all platforms of social media to promote themselves, their main platform is Facebook, which is no longer used by young people.
My daughters and their partners are all pretty much the same ages as Rebecca and Megan (between 27 and 31), and all are serious music fans. My oldest daughter and her partner particularly, they go to gigs a lot and are very tuned in to interesting and non mainstream artists. However, neither my daughters or their partners have even heard of Larkin Poe. And don't forget, they grew up in my house, so they know about Muddy Waters, Little Feat, Taj Mahal, Fred McDowell....etc.
None of this is in any way a criticism, it is an observation of how times have changed and how tastes have moved on.
I wish them a long and successful career, and I am pretty sure they will experience that and maybe more. Whether they will ever reach people of their own age and whether that even matters is the point I am making.
Shine On Michael.
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Post by jono1uk on Dec 6, 2018 10:57:15 GMT
Very interesting and sadly true Michael .. glad to report my Larkin Poe ticket for Brighton has just dropped through the letterbox!!
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Post by biscuit on Dec 6, 2018 12:29:57 GMT
within you and with out you Beatles cover Oh my god, this is fantastic!
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Post by ken1953clark on Dec 8, 2018 14:28:57 GMT
I first saw the girls about 5 and a half years ago at a high school in Barnsley. I’d missed them at ‘Hedleys Shed’ so went to take a look. Blair Dunlop was the support and his dad, Ashley Hutchings, was manning the merch stall! That was a double take moment! Back then they were more Americana/country rock but what I liked about them is that they would try anything, collaborate with anybody. They did a couple of tours with Elvis Costello but he wanted them as demure southern belles and so when they toured by themselves they rocked out big style and it became the norm. If you like their sound today says thanks to Declan. I’ve seen them several times since, Saltaire, Manchester, and they are getting better and better. They have now made it and I couldn’t be happier for them, they deserve it, though I fear I won’t see them again in small venues up North. They now tread the international stage, playing blues cruises and and headlining at the FIA Formula One final next year, Europe has woken up too. Go Girls!
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Post by Michael Messer on Dec 10, 2018 17:57:16 GMT
Great post, Ken.
I would have gone just to see Ashley on the merch' stall!
Shine On Michael.
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