Sometimes you have to go to venues you don't like and Larkin Poe have done this to me before but they are always worth it. Two outstanding rock guitarists, a Southern USA bluesy background and sisterly harmonies. That's a winning combo.
First up was The Sheepdogs from Saskatoon, Canada - good line up of twin lead guitars, keyboards bass and drums. They were OK.
Larkin Poe took to the stage to the opening chords of 'White Room' - good entrance in my view.
They stomped through a number of tracks from their new album 'Blood Harmony' plus a few covers including 'Jessica' (confirming my assertion earlier that day that they are sort of heirs to the Allman Bros!) and 'Preachin' Blues' (great choice). Rebecca's guitar playing is unusual - it's almost Springsteen like in its riffing and I love it.
I loved 'Georgia off my mind' and 'Summertime Sunset' off the album.
There was great energy and great guitar playing from start to finish and a brilliant acoustic set of three songs - again a couple of stonking songs from the new album ('Might as well be me' and 'Southern Comfort'). The first featured some soulful singing from Rebecca and both songs highlighted the slide from Megan. The third acoustic number was somewhat surprisingly 'Crocodile Rock'.
Then it was back to high tempo southern rock for the rest of the set and an encore of the brilliant 'Deep Stays Down'.
Brilliant - just brilliant.
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