They usually open for him, then back him for part - or all - of his performance. To date, Larkin Poe has done 100-plus concerts in the U.S. In 2014, he invited Rebecca and Megan to perform on four songs on “Lost on the River: The New Basement Tapes.” That album featured him, Rhiannon Giddens, Taylor Goldsmith, Mumford & Sons’ Marcus Mumford and My Morning Jacket’s Jim James, all of whom wrote new music for previously unheard lyrics written by Bob Dylan in 1967. Their accomplished debut album, “Kin,” makes it clear why Costello is such an admirer of what the sisters call their “roots rock ‘n’ roll.” Soon thereafter, Megan and Rebecca launched Larkin Poe, a band equally adept at understated ballads, rollicking rockers and much in between. You were very professional, had a very clear idea of what you were doing, and handed me a copy of your album!’”Īt the time, Megan, Rebecca and their older sibling, violinist Jessica, were a bluegrass trio known as the Lovell Sisters. He told us, in intervening years: ‘I was so intrigued by you little girls. So we ran over next to him onstage, and - with great exuberance - started singing. “But, at the same time, he was singing a song we knew and loved. “We were peripherally aware of who Elvis was,” Rebecca said.

“I don’t think it comes from an egocentric place I just have a really big mouth!”ĭid these classically trained sisters even know who Costello was when they invited themselves onstage to sing and play alongside him?

“Brash is our middle name!” agreed lead singer, guitarist and mandolinist Rebecca, 25. We’ve had a lot of brash moments,” said Megan, 26, who sings harmony vocals and plays Dobro and lap pedal steel guitar. In fact, the sisters had not yet met Costello when - impromptu - they joined him onstage to add vocal and instrumental support to his version of an old gospel classic, “Dancing With the Angels.” Larkin Poe co-founders Rebecca and Megan Lovell were teenagers when they met Costello at the 2007 edition of Merlefest, the 28-year-old North Carolina bluegrass and traditional music fete. Where: Balboa Theatre, 868 Fourth Ave., Gaslamp Quarter

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