Larkin Poe - Home Concert, Nashville, TN, 5-22-2020

One silver lining to the dark cloud of the coronavirus pandemic has been the many home concerts and other home recordings musicians have done while they've been stuck in lockdown at home. I've been hoping that Larkin Poe would get in on the fun, especially since they excel so well in the acoustic format. However, they've chosen to do some home concerts behind a paywall. I don't want to hinder their efforts to make a living as musicians, so I don't plan on posting those, at least not for a long, long time. If you're interested in watching their livestream concerts, you can do so here (and you can sign up retroactively, by the way):

https://larkinpoe.veeps.com/stream/events/4ec9b19df58b

They've been doing about one a week, each one with a different focus. A portion of the proceeds are going to United Way Nashville.

Anyway, although I don't intend to post any of that stuff, I'm glad to say that they've done some other home concert performances which they've freely posted on their Facebook page and elsewhere. So this is a collection of those. Note, by the way, that this does not include any of their "Tip O' the Hat" performances, which they continue to steadily do. I'll post another album of those when I have enough material.

This album starts with four cover songs. The first two were done as a special tribute to John Lee Hooker, and naturally are versions of his songs. The third one is a Reverend Gary Davis tribute, and is one of his songs. Then they did an Allman Brothers Band song, "Little Martha."

While all of those were recorded on separate occasions, the remainder of this album was recorded on May 22, 2020. Larkin Poe has a new album, "Self Made Man," coming out in June, so they did a home concert to help promote it. Two of the songs they played, "Holy Ghost Fire" and "Keep Diggin'," are from the upcoming album. The rest are originals, except for "Preachin' Blues" by the blues great Son House and "American Girl" by Tom Petty. (Technically, "American Girl" was from a different performance, but it was recorded on the same day, at the same location.)

I probably should mention that all the songs are acoustic performances, which isn't that surprising considering the two Larkin Poe sisters have been stuck in their house without the rest of their band. And it also goes without saying that it's great stuff. It's 41 minutes long. Let's hope they'll do more home concerts for the public domain, in which case I'll go back and rename this "Home Concert 1."

I've kept in their talking before each song. But I had to edit it down sometimes. For instance, because this is from several different dates, they introduced themselves several times, and I removed most of those intros.

01 talk (Larkin Poe)
02 Crawling King Snake (Larkin Poe)
03 talk (Larkin Poe)
04 Boom Boom (Larkin Poe)
05 talk (Larkin Poe)
06 Say No to the Devil (Larkin Poe)
07 talk (Larkin Poe)
08 Little Martha [Instrumental] (Larkin Poe)
09 talk (Larkin Poe)
10 Trouble in Mind (Larkin Poe)
11 talk (Larkin Poe)
12 Holy Ghost Fire (Larkin Poe)
13 talk (Larkin Poe)
14 Bleach Blonde Bottle Blues (Larkin Poe)
15 talk (Larkin Poe)
16 Preachin' Blues (Larkin Poe)
17 talk (Larkin Poe)
18 Keep Diggin' (Larkin Poe)
19 talk (Larkin Poe)
20 Blue Ridge Mountains (Larkin Poe)
21 talk (Larkin Poe)
22 American Girl (Larkin Poe)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15262128/LarkinP_2020a_HomeConcrtNashvilleTN__5-22-2020_atse.zip.html

The cover art is a screenshot from the May 22, 2020 concert. I randomly clicked to the middle of the show and I liked the paused image of them happy and smiling, so I used that.