Chords for An Interview With Larkin Poe || Baeble Music

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_ _ [Ab] You done?
[Eb] Trimping? _
Right.
_ We are [Db] two sisters from Atlanta, Georgia.
My name is Rebecca.
And [Ab] I'm Megan.
I'm the younger of the two sisters.
[Eb] I'm the older and I play Lap Steel, sing a little bit of [Dbm] harmony.
And I lead voice.
[G] Mostly bachata.
[Ab] We are Larkin [Eb] Poe. _
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_ _ [Eb] think as a general rule it's tricky to sum up your sound.
You know, any band, I think every band has a hard time [Bb] summing up what they play.
But [Eb] we do consider ourselves mostly roots rock and roll.
We grew up in the south,
listening to lots of [E] classic rock bands, you [D] know, like [Ab] Allman Brothers and Doobie Brothers.
And, you [Eb] know, a lot of, I think, music that draws from [Ebm] [Db] the deep roots of the south.
I would say even [Abm] their West Coast band, Creedence Clearwater, was a big influence [Eb] for us.
And, of course, Led Zeppelin [Ebm] and a lot of, you know, some of the bit bands, Rolling Stones, coming over.
So we call it roots rock and roll, but [Eb] it's kind of a bit of everything.
_ [Ebm] _ _ [Db] I think we are lucky to come from an [Bb] area that [Gb] breeds a lot of great [B] music.
From [Gb] Tennessee, there's a [E] lot of little naughty operas that we grew up going into,
picking [Ab] parties and things for Bluegrass.
[B] We grew up [Gb] involved in a lot of the roots music of our area and it [Bb] is really [Eb] incredible music.
[Db] Our _
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mom put us into classical violin lessons [Dbm] when we were _ [Abm] three and four.
Babies.
[Bb] That's a horrible [E] thing to hear a three-year [Ebm]-old play, but we [Eb] are very lucky that [Gb] she put us in
lessons when we were [Ab] young and everything kind of expanded from [Ebm] there.
We don't come from a very musical family, [Eb] although they are music lovers.
[D] They have great taste in [Abm] music.
[D] I remember growing up and our dad would roll us around in a minivan
and while our mom was playing [E] Mozart tapes, our dad was [Gb] playing,
you know, Crosby, Stills, Nash & [G] Young and all of like any of Neil Young's [Ebm] records.
And I remember him crying over the lyrics [Ab] of songs.
He would get so [Bb] obsessed with songs and listen to [B] the words.
And I think as a kid, it always felt [Db] very intriguing.
[Eb] At a super young age, you can't emotionally resonate with too many songs,
but I remember wanting that.
And so as we came into our mid to late teens and we started the band,
it had [E] never really occurred to us to write our own songs.
At some point, there was this tipping in which we decided that that was [Ebm] something
we really needed to do in order to fully express our own story.
[Db] And luckily, we've [Gb] been able to kind of put a voice to, [Abm] I think,
our own feelings and [F] learning how to be more vulnerable [E] with the lyrics
and figuring [Ebm] out _ [Db] things that [Abm] we need to speak to as [Ab] artists.
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_ _ I listened to Jeff Buckley's [Db] record Grace for the first time and I hated [Ab] it.
It was like it was [D] ugly and there was distortion and it made me feel [Eb] uncomfortable.
[Db] And then I listened to it again and I listened to it again and listened to it again.
[Ebm] And I think once I fully [Eb] fell in love with that record, I [Ebm] just couldn't stop listening to [Db] it.
I wanted to be Jeff and I wanted to [F] write songs like him and play guitar like him.
I had tried to play [Eb] acoustic guitar, mandolin,
a bunch of different instruments and nothing really [Ab] resonated with me
[Gb] until I heard the resonator.
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_ And that was when it really clicked [E] for me.
Music really clicked for me.
[A] I don't sing lead.
I like [D] to sing harmony, but I consider [Gb] my real voice to be the slide.
Being a strong instrumentalist, especially as ladies, has always been [Bb] important for [Dm] us.
[Bb] We [Ab] originally released a [Bb] collection of songs.
Our [F] first debut [A] record was [G] Kin, [D] which in the [Eb] South is like a word for family,
like you're kith and you're kin.
[D] And so [B] we were sitting there talking [G] [Gb] about the re-release of the record.
[Bm] We recorded some new [D] songs.
[Gm] Universal and [D] Europe had picked [F] up the record and so [G] it felt like a [E] natural progression for us
to kind of make it into [G] this [F] candy goodie basket of songs, old and new, and repackage it.
And I was just kind of messing [Gm] around.
I was like, hey, we should call it re [Ebm]-skinned because it feels like an [A] inception moment
because it has kin from [Gm] Larkin Poe and then it's re [Bb]-skinned.
And [G] it made us laugh.
And I think oftentimes [Ab] when things make you laugh, you should stick with it.
_ We feel [Gb] so lucky to have been able to spend so much time with Elvis [A] Costello.
I mean, [G] this is [Bb] coming up in probably our eighth year of [Gb] being involved in his music.
To [Db] have _ that relationship develop over so many [Em] years, I think,
has been [Ab] a really important thing for us.
One, just to have [F] somebody of his [G] stature [F] champion us.
He's put us in a [A] lot of situations where [D] _ we had [A] access to people and opportunities
that we [Ab] wouldn't have had otherwise.
[G] I mean, we were out in Los Angeles on tour [Eb] with him last year for this detour leg
[Db] and he got a call from Conan O [G]'Brien and they were asking him, he's like,
[Gm] oh, we had a last minute [A] dropout.
Do you [F] want to come and perform Elvis?
We'd love to have you on.
And he said, [Ab] no, I don't want to, but I know somebody you should have.
[F] And so as a direct result, like the next day we went in and filmed Conan.
So [C] to watch that [F] happen, to know that we still live in an era in [D] which
other people can have such an influence on who you are and what you do in a positive way,
we feel very, very thankful. _
[C] I would [G] say one of the biggest [F] takeaway messages that he's given [G] us
[Ab] would be one to defy any kind of genre box [F] that people try to put you in.
I think that he is a firm believer [Bb] and really, I [G] think, living proof [Db] of the fact that [A] artists can
have long careers with a lot [Gb] of longevity in which [E] you branch out into a lot of [Gb] _ different genres,
[Bb] make different records.
And as long as you are [A] _ _ [Gm] _ delivering good [F] music to your fans,
it really [A] doesn't matter what it is, [Ab] just so long as it's good.
And I think that that's been a good lesson.
And also how to wear a suit, [Eb] damn.
Damn.
He looks good all the time.
I've never seen him when he didn't look [F] like [G] Elvis Costello.
[Dm] We were trying to imagine him on the beach.
He would be in a three-piece suit.
He would [Eb] be in a three-piece suit.
[A] I mean, it's like_
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[B] Hi, [Abm] we're Larkin Poe and you're [A] watching Baeble Music.
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