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Larkin’ About

With the talented ‘Larkin Poe’

Sadie Seroxcat
3 min readJan 21, 2022
Photo by Jefferson Santos on Unsplash

Georgians (the US one), Rebecca and Megan Lovell, began their music career in 2005 in the band ‘The Lovell Sisters’ with their older sister Jessica. In 2010 the younger two girls named themselves ‘Larkin Poe’, after their great-great-great-grandfather (cousin of author Edgar Alan Poe). Since then they have played at Glastonbury Festival (2014&2016), toured Europe with Elvis Costello, also toured with the likes of Keith Urban and released albums: ‘Self Made Man’, ‘Kindred Spirits’ and ‘Paint The Roses’.

In 2015 they gave this interview:

Larkin Poe: ‘Co-Writing with Edgar Allan Poe Would be a Drag on the Band’s Happy Levels’ | No Depression (archive.org)

which tells us (among other things):

“They are multi-instrumentalists. Rebecca plays electric and acoustic guitar, mandolin, violin, and keyboards. Megan plays lap steel, Dobro and keyboards. “In our minds, being able to express oneself fluently on an instrument is key. It is the language from which songs and music are born. If you can’t play an instrument…

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Sadie Seroxcat
Sadie Seroxcat

Written by Sadie Seroxcat

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