Larkin Poe Release Blazing New Song & Video Ahead of Summer Tour
2024 got off to a triumphant start for Larkin Poe, beginning with their first career GRAMMY® Award.
By: Josh Sharpe Jul. 12, 2024
Larkin Poe – the GRAMMY® Award-winning duo of Georgia-bred, Nashville-based multi-instrumentalist sisters Rebecca and Megan Lovell – continue what is proving a milestone year with the jubilant new single, “Bluephoria,” available now via their own Tricki-Woo Records. An official music video – filmed in The Blue Room at Nashville, TN’s Third Man Records – is available on YouTube.
“Once upon a time: we caught a case of the blues so deep and all-encompassing that it launched us on a euphoric exploration,” says Larkin Poe. “‘Bluephoria’ is a rock ’n’ roll rumination on the duality of the human experience; deep down in the quietest place where the bitter and the sweet twine together, and suffering/joy are galvanized into meaning. Take special note of the second verse which was inspired by the words of legendary Memphis bluesman Furry Lewis, who is quoted as having said: ‘Now I know I ain’t a star, but I sure might be a moon.’”
2024 got off to a triumphant start for Larkin Poe, beginning with their first career GRAMMY® Award, winning “Best Contemporary Blues Album” for 2022’s critically acclaimed sixth studio album, Blood Harmony. Additional accolades followed, including a prestigious Americana Music Honors & Awards nomination for “Duo/Group of the Year.”
Long praised as one of hardest touring acts on the road today, Larkin Poe will celebrate their landmark year with a truly epic live schedule that includes top-billed festival appearances around the world, US runs with Slash’s all-star S.E.R.P.E.N.T Festival and KALEO’s Payback Tour 2024, and more. Highlights include unforgettable double bills with Lenny Kravitz at Montreux, Switzerland’s famed Montreux Jazz Festival (July 16), Rival Sons at Bonn, Germany’s Kunst!Rasen Bonn (July 17) and Chris Isaak at Saint-Julien-en-Genevois, France’s Guitare En Scene (July 19), plus eagerly awaited performances at Maidstone, UK’s Maid of Stone Festival (July 21), Cambridge, UK’s Cambridge Folk Festival (July 27), Park City, UT’s Park City Song Summit (August 16), Asbury Park, NJ’s Sea.Hear.Now Festival (September 15), Louisville, KY’s Bourbon & Beyond (September 22), Ocean City, MD’s Oceans Calling (September 27), and Melissa Etheridge’s Moon Crush “The Sea & ME” in Miramar Beach, FL (May 7, 2025). Additional dates will be announced. For complete details, please visit HERE.
In addition, Larkin Poe recently kicked off their new “American Girls with Larkin Poe” series on SiriusXM’s Tom Petty Radio (Channel 31), airing weekly with the best of roots rock ‘n’ roll, R&B, blues, and more, plus an exclusive Tom Petty cover in every episode. For schedule details, please see HERE.
Hailed by American Songwriter as “a roaring, impassioned set that leaves no doubt about who the queens of contemporary Southern blues rock are, and will likely stay, for the foreseeable future,” Blood Harmony affirmed Larkin Poe as an essential force in shaping the identity of Southern rock ‘n’ roll, breathing new energy into the genre with both forward-thinking perspective and a decidedly feminine strength. In addition to their second career GRAMMY® nomination for “Best Contemporary Blues Album” and first-ever win, the album earned Larkin Poe enthusiastic applause from such outlets as Forbes, which declared it to be “11 songs and 42 minutes of pounding driving guitar and slide guitar virtuosity…There is one problem with listening to an album of Larkin Poe – you just want to listen to more and more Larkin Poe songs.” “Blood Harmony showcases Larkin Poe’s command of the blues,” affirmed No Depression, “and their ability to write and deliver songs that reveal the shadows and light through which we pass in our everyday world. Even in the midst of the blues there still resides hope and joy, and Larkin Poe leads us through to that other side.”
LARKIN POE - TOUR 2024
JULY
12 – Oeiras, Portugal – NOS Alive *
14 – Murcia, Spain – Las Noches Del Malecón Murcia *
16 – Montreux, Switzerland – Montreux Jazz Festival †
17 – Bonn, Germany – Kunst!Rasen Bonn +
19 – Saint-Julien-en-Genevois, France – Guitare En Scene #
20 – Winterbach, Germany – Magic Blues Night *
21 – Maidstone, UK – Maid of Stone Festival *
24 – San Sebastián, Spain – Jazzaldia *
27 – Cambridge, UK – Cambridge Folk Festival *
AUGUST
7 – Cary, NC – Koka Booth Amphitheatre §
8 – Atlanta, GA – Cadence Bank Amphitheatre at Chastain Park §
10 – Clearwater, FL – The Sound–Coachman Park §
11 – St. Augustine, FL – Saint Augustine Amphitheatre §
13 – Huntsville, AL – The Orion Amphitheater §
14 – Franklin, TN – FirstBank Amphitheatre §
16 – Park City, UT – Park City Song Summit *
SEPTEMBER
1 – Charlestown, RI – Rhythm & Roots Festival *
1 – Fairlee, VT – Lake Morey Concert Series @ Lake Morey Resort
15 – Asbury Park, NJ – Sea.Hear.Now Festival *
22 – Louisville, KY – Bourbon & Beyond *
27 – Ocean City, MD – Oceans Calling *
28 – Austin, TX – Moody Amphitheater ^
30 – Houston, TX – Bayou Music Center ^
OCTOBER
3 – Chicago, IL – The Chicago Theatre ^
4 – St. Louis, MO – The Factory ^
6 – Kansas City, MO – The Midland Theatre ^
MAY 2025
7 – Miramar Beach, FL – Moon Crush “The Sea & ME” *
* Festival Appearance
† w/ Lenny Kravitz
+ w/ Rival Sons
# w/ Chris Isaak
§ w/ Slash’s S.E.R.P.E.N.T. Festival
^ w KALEO – Payback Tour 2024
Photo Credit: Robby Klein
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