Mad As A Hatter has got to be my favorite song from them

Larkin Poe is awesome I love their covers

I have seen Larkin Poe many times live, and they always put on a helluva show. This song has actually been part of their live show for many years, just recently put on an album last year. There is a video of them performing it opening for Queen I think about 6 years ago. They have great audience interaction, and are gracious and kind human beings. They are pretty much the whole package, being totally independent for the majority of their existence. Total badasses.

Larkin Poe is my most favorite band since I discovered it years ago when I could not sleep well and listened night by night to DLF Radio, Germany, a high quality channel. Meanwhile I own all of LP's albums and keep listening to them nearly every day because I am mesmerized by Rebecca's soulful voice and Megan's wonderful lapsteel playing. Megan designed this guitar herself and to my taste she is currently the world's best lapsteel player. No wonder that Larkin Poe won a Grammy this year. Special thanks to @ GenBoyer who provided me with older Larkin Poe albums which aren't available any more. Furthermore he introduced me to The Warning, a band that I love nearly the same because of their stunning poetry.

Hey Ashlena!! 👋 Larkin Poe just won a Grammy with their album Blood Harmony for Contemporary Blues Album of the Year. i remember discovering them around 2019. I was obsessed with their ability to play just about any genre. Their original music is amazing, but you see their diversity when they show homage to the music they enjoy through their covers. Mostly just the two sisters sitting in a bedroom or hotel room. It was 6 months later in 2019 when i discovered The Warning! Again, i was obsessed!! A little trivia: Both lead singer/guitarists Rebecca Lovell and Dany Villarreal share the same birthday's!! Here are a couple of Playlists of their covers. Check out the diversity of all the selections. They knock them all out of the park! As good or better than the original in some cases! Playlists #1 - Mostly acoustic and mellower tunes: kzread.info/head/PLAOGal7pIOOikfwWqMSNGP8DWeI_xeX3h&si=EF4hi8N5oZSlUjz3 Playlists #2 - More electric with blues and rock: kzread.info/head/PLAOGal7pIOOhPabkFJLvmmPKmavpX0sJG&si=ruyiZDu26m0-sVrk

@Ashlena: If you want to see a professionally recorded live show, please see the Rockpalast recording from Cologne. Unfortunately the first song has been cut off due to time restrictions. I love the stage presence of the ladies.

Been a fan of these girls for 3 years now. Amazing musicians! Guitar...sssss. Fun huh!!

As a pretty solid The Warning fan and have been for many years , i only clicked on as a saw sisters pop up in the subtitles . . And . . Id listen to this . . Its got raunch and a pretty good sound .. . Not somthing id search out but i do like it . . Id like to see them live . . I just noticed your subs . Nearly 15k Wahoo .. go you 💐👍 Till the next time . Take care . . Bye from NZ . 🍷🇳🇿

@genboyer

5 ай бұрын

@roderreed - I believe Larkin Poe visited NZ 2022 or '23 for a short tour.

@rogerreed905

5 ай бұрын

@@genboyer they may have done some of our festivals.. . .

@rexwave4624

5 ай бұрын

I tell Spotify to play Larkin Poe and sink into a world of their creation. Their religious commentary is interesting.

I saw these girls last year in Manchester UK and they were amazing. Incredibly talented musicians.

@genboyer

5 ай бұрын

I think they are returning to the UK this year!

One of my two favorite sister acts (alongside The Warning). I don't think Rebecca ever sings a song the same way twice. Each performance has its own little improvisations here and there. When they started out, Rebecca played the mandolin instead of the guitar and it's taken her some time to grow into being comfortable enough with it to lay down a great solo like she does here. It's been interesting to watch the transition from Megan primarily playing lead on her lap steel (her current rig was custom-built for her. Previously she played an old Rickenbacker model that her dad did some custom metal work on so she could play it standing) to the two sisters sharing the load, so to speak, with the guitar work. Other songs worth checking out are Blood Harmony (the title track from their most-recent album), Bad Spell, Bleach Blonde Bottle Blues, Trouble in Mind, their cover of Preachin' Blues, with an honorable mention for Boltcutters and the Family Name, which I didn't dig as much on the album, but is fantastic live with the crowd work they do. They also have their own version of Black Betty that's pretty fun and they say takes more inspiration from Leadbelly's original recording than Ram Jam's cover. As others have mentioned, they have close to 200 stripped down covers of various songs that have inspired them on their channel; just the two sisters, their instruments and their voices, sitting on a couch or a hotel bed.

@ashlenamusic

5 ай бұрын

Amazing! Can’t wait to hear more!

@rexwave4624

5 ай бұрын

Rebecca is like Ritchie Blackmore live - doesn't seem to play the the same thing twice, either. He said that if you're not taking chances, you're not finding new things. Like him, sometimes she's so-so, sometimes she's brilliant and I win the lottery.

A well-written song doesn't show everything at the beginning but builds up and saves some surprises for the end, which is contrary to what reactors need. I wonder how Stairway would fare in today's world. Larkin Poe are ten years older than The Warning. We saw them in Toronto last summer. Amazing! My favourite LP songs are Mad As A Hatter (Nu Deco version is great, so is the older convent version) and Back Down South with its reference to Macon - makes me cry.

@Ashlenatics - As I told her, the Lovell sisters Megan and Rebecca have a similar musical upbringing as The Warning. Classical piano training, parents that aren't musicians but are lovers of all sorts of music including Rock, and totally supported their daughters in their pursuit of a career of music! Larkin Poe's passion and dedication to their craft is like that of The Warning, and they have been doing it since 2010 as independent artists, created their own record label 2017, 2 Grammy nominations, and just won their first Grammy for Best Contemporary Blues Album 2024. 4 EPs and 7 albums, many tours of the US, UK and EU, Larkin Poe is hopefully poised to explode on the music scene just like TW! I love both bands as they are committed to different genres' of rock, yet both are so incredibly talented at it! Cheers! Salud! #FeedMyLarkinPoeHunger #APDVillaReality

@Youknowwho1964

5 ай бұрын

Good job Gen!🤘😄

@genboyer

5 ай бұрын

@@Youknowwho1964 - Most kind of you Uwe!

@rexwave4624

5 ай бұрын

Everything I wanted to say, right here!

The are so good live. Thanks for the reaction. Mad as a hatter, is a good song. As I remember it is only live.

@genboyer

5 ай бұрын

@michaeldam - MAAH was recorded officially live on their album Paint The Roses, ft. Nu Deco Ensemble. IMHO, their Convent Club version is still the best.

Rebecca's got a great deep, bluesy voice. And she has that magic female vocalist/guitarist birthday January 30th, like Daniela Villarreal and Samantha Fish! My favorite Larkin Poe song is probably "Mississippi", with Rebecca playing slide on a resonator guitar. Some great blues!

@brentkelsay3439

5 ай бұрын

Wow, all three with the same birthday!!! That's a crazy amount of talent. Would you call that Larkin Poetic justice, or some kind of Warning, or a Fish story if you didn't know better? 😁

@bretlysle3847

5 ай бұрын

Not a guitarist but one heck of a Blues singer Janiva Magness also Jan. 30.

@jemezangler908

5 ай бұрын

@@bretlysle3847Just listened to her. Great voice! Thanks!

I've been listening to them for years, they are great!

Larkin Poe never ceases to please...❤

Larkin Poe is amazing! Super talented! They have tons of great originals, plus many killer covers!

Saw Larkin Poe last year in Austin, TX. The Lovell sisters rocked the place down. Congratulations on their recent Grammy win for Best Contemporary Blues Album.

Larken Poe sings Nights in White Satin like the warnings Enter Sandman, took a classic song and made it their own. Brilliant

@genboyer

5 ай бұрын

And Justin Hayward called them to congratulate and talk about their rendition! It's on YT.

Rebecca and Megan have been been called the Allman Bros. little sisters. They started out in a family bluegrass band. "Trouble in Mind" is one of my fav tracks of theirs.

Ashlena reactions for the win again. great first listen to this band. looks like I will be buying some new music, my new favorite band

@ashlenamusic

5 ай бұрын

Amazing!!!! And thanks!

I've watched some of their acoustic videos before and i was luke warm on them. I had no idea they sounded like this! I guess it's time to revisit them! I love blues rock. I've been enjoying Ally Venable lately too. Like you said, "There's just something about a girl with a guitar."

@ashlenamusic

5 ай бұрын

Right?? Girls are awesome 😂

I love their acoustic work. Bad Spell is great! Nice reaction

Blood Harmony is a great album by Larkin Poe……both sisters are immensely talented!

I love Country and I love the Blues 'cause I have some eclectic tastes. You hear about Larkin Poe in passing from time to time, but once you hear them you wonder why they aren't bigger than they already are. Definitely a different sound than The Warning, but I suppose they have a similar backstory. Like TW, I think they are better live. They're damned good musicians at any rate and if they were around a few decades ago when Country was huge (more so than now) they would have dominated the charts.

@genboyer

5 ай бұрын

Aloha Elgon, happy to see a steadfast The Warning fan enjoy Larkin Poe.

@ramblerdave1339

5 ай бұрын

They started out as teenagers, In a Bluegrass band, called The Lovell Sisters, with older sister Jessica on fiddle, middle sister Megan on Dobro resonator guitar, and youngest sis, Rebecca (who does most of the writing), on Mandolin ( at 14, she was the first female and youngest person ever, to win the best Mandolin player, at the most prestigious Bluegrass Festival, in the US. All 3 Sisters started playing classical piano and Violin as pre schoolers. Jessica didn't like touring much, and left to go to college and get married, leaving the other two, to become Larkin Poe.

@genboyer

5 ай бұрын

@@ramblerdave1339 - Thank you, couldn't have said it better! That mando competition was the 2006 Merlefest...and apparently she is the first and only female to win that award. The Lovell Sisters cut 2 albums and toured all over the US and the EU before Jessica left.

Rebecca and Megan are the business. They are insanely talented and have absolute fun every time they perform.

Georgia Off My Mind is one of my favorite of theirs.

These ladies are great. I love Rebecca's voice which is suited for rock and blues. She has that deep chest voice like Dany from The Warning. I suggest listening to Bleach Blonde Bottle Blues or Blood Harmony.

One of my favorites from them is preachin blues.

I’ve been fans of theirs for many years. The slide player has a rig made so she can play a lap steel while walking around. So cool.

@ashlenamusic

5 ай бұрын

That’s so insane I love it

Love wanted woman, watch them Alive they are so powerful

I’ve been a big fan of theirs since we saw them open up for/back up Elvis Costello in 2016. They are both amazing. To assess them or their playing as “cute” is undeservedly dismissive and infantilizing. These women are badasses. 🎸🔥

SURPRISE!!!

@ashlenamusic

5 ай бұрын

😱

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Larkin Poe - "Get Up" from the "Sweetwater" Soundtrack (Official Video)

@genboyer

5 ай бұрын

and there's another song they did for Sweetwater, Right Place Right Time. A slow burn ballad! Have you heard "Blue and Sentimental" on the Late Night Basie compilation?

Larkin Poe has elements of The Allman Brothers, Bonnie Raitt, Marshall Tucker, Fanny, Janis Joplin, and lots of other Southern rock bands of the 1960s, '70s, and '80s. They are reputed to be better live, as shown here. The studio album has a better sound stage, but the live performance is looser and more honest. I run hot and cold on this band. They're really, really good musicians, but their songs are cute and forgettable at the same time.

Larkin Poe was their Grandfather's name.

I agree. As a guy…. there is nothing sexier than a woman slinging an electric guitar.

@genboyer

5 ай бұрын

...or a sword! 🤪

@astrogatorjones

5 ай бұрын

@@genboyer An axe.

@genboyer

5 ай бұрын

@@astrogatorjones LOL!

Still S!CK?!! You are one fervent (but no longer feverish) The Warning fan haha! Larkin Poe has an awesome blues/blues rock sound and they have lots of good songs so other commenters will have live versions to recommend. Recently won their first Grammy! And yeah the lap steel sounds great but gotta be a trick to playing it. Listened to Good Charlotte Emotionless. As a divorced dad it hit home. My 20 yo son and I have a good relationship and he's the best part of my life. Hope you get to feeling better Ashlena!

@ashlenamusic

5 ай бұрын

Isn’t it such a sad song 😩😩 and thank you xx

I don't know if you know Jeff Healey or not. He was blind and played a double lap electric guitar. This is the song "When the Night Comes Falling from the Sky" live. kzread.info/dash/bejne/pZ2putaAZJC6ktI.htmlsi=cAUwNAzaQCmjZ0T5

@ashlenamusic

5 ай бұрын

Ah yes I know Jeff Healey!

@rexwave4624

5 ай бұрын

Megan Lovell covers Jeff Healey. kzread.info/dash/bejne/hHqkxKuzgM2wo9o.htmlsi=4vWEyRl59oE4miS0

Hello Ashlena... 😂

@ashlenamusic

5 ай бұрын

Hiiiiiiii

New subscriber 😊 larkin poe does a bad ass live version of "preachin blues" by Son House. Definitely you should react to or at least check it out. 😊❤ blessings from Ohio

You lost me at " it's a cute song". Are you kidding me ? If you can't appreciate this great complexity of sound, consider a career change.

@ashlenamusic

5 ай бұрын

lol the fact you think this is a career

Couldn't you purchase a bigger microphone?? That orange windbreaker ball is very annoying. Almost covers your face. Plus I don't care for the black looking soundproof foam look of your walls. Doesn't look inviting no more.

@williamburkholder769

5 ай бұрын

[drunken rant] There is a stereotype among KZreadrs that a Big Microphone equals coolness or authority or something. But most of that is tradition left over from radio in the 1940s, and no longer relevant in 2024. Unless that big microphone is well suited to the actual voice of the particular person behind it, and not just a conformist prop, it's irrelevant. In truth, most of us could get away with using a decent lapel mic and in-ear headphones, just as newscasters on TV do. The radio studio look is not really becoming. If the mic is chosen to complement the individual voice, fine. But in too many instances, it's' a $400 to $500 prop. Whether Ashlena needs the particular mic she uses, I couldn't say. Only she and her family and friends would know for sure, but it sounds reasonable to me. I do know that there are far too many people using mics the wrong way, and even more using mics that are unnecessary or flat out wrong for their voices. I listened to a podcast from a very prominent Internet musician from England tonight. Her laptop mic made her sound so sibilant I thought I was hearing bacon fry, or a parakeet with Covid 19 being eaten by a cat. Sadly, she's a brilliant recording artist who knows better, has, and usually uses ALL the right equipment.

@ashlenamusic

5 ай бұрын

Yeah sure do you want to pay for it? I’m using what I got and the orange cover is just so my P’s don’t pop as much without it. I have soundproofing because I live in an apartment and it’s necessary to keep outside noise out. Sorry you don’t like it.

@kevinthetruckdriver353

5 ай бұрын

@@ashlenamusic - with a good directional microphone with a small windcap. You wouldn't need the soundproofing that seems you're in a DJ booth at a radio station.

@ashlenamusic

5 ай бұрын

Bro I got the soundproofing for free, my mic was upgraded thanks to my patrons. I also record a lot of radio commercials so my setup works. If you’d like to contribute to new microphone be my guest 😝

@rexwave4624

5 ай бұрын

@@kevinthetruckdriver353 the acoustic insulation works three ways: it keeps her voice from bouncing around in her room, which makes her voice clearer regardless of the microphone; it reduces the noise entering her room from elsewhere that would pollute her voice recording - again regardless of microphone choice; and it reduces the sound of her voice escaping, which may less important but might be nice for her neighbours if she works at early or late hours. As for colour, some artists like the focus that a dark environment gives them. Also, big microphones have big diaphragms (the pickup surface) which make the voice sound warmer and more natural. As for directional microphones, they're great if you stay on top of them but otherwise their sound varies. If there's any compression in the signal path, they will raise the noise floor if you're off the microphone. Viva Ashlena, viva Larkin Poe y viva The Warning!