The air around the Appalachian mountains seem to be infested with forest spirits that tell you how to cook up the most simple and amazing melodies that the best producers in the world can't come up with try as they might. Larkin Grimm, a native of Memphis, Tennessee who lived in a hippie commune till she was 7 is a real life example that comes straight from Shyamalan's "The Village". In her mus...
Larkin Grimm was raised in Memphis in The Holy Order Of MANS until the cult disbanded and her parents relocated with her to the Blue Ridge Mountains in Georgia. We're told she's itinerant these days, spending the warmer months living outdoors in the woods, but she hunkered down in NYC earlier this summer (at least for the time being). I mention her travels, because the propulsive, galloping "Ri...
Aside from having a cool name, Larkin Grimm has captured in song, what I feel every time I turn on the damn news...some NEW bad thing is swirling around and if I don't run for cover, I'm gonna get caught. So, I've decided not to leave my house for about 6 months. Aw, hell..I'll ride that cyclone. Till the cows come home.
The air around the Appalachian mountains seem to be infested with forest spirits that tell you how to cook up the most simple and amazing melodies that the best producers in the world can't come up with try as they might. Larkin Grimm, a native of Memphis, Tennessee who lived in a hippie commune till she was 7 is a real life example that comes straight from Shyamalan's "The Village". In her mus...
It's all too easy to forget what music we would be left with if people like Larkin Grimm weren't out there stretching the kind of boundaries that a very highly skilled/schooled musician can't touch. Although the moniker Freak Folk was used as a way of herding all the slightly off-kilter sheep into one easily judged fold, Larkin Grimm does share certain traits with a few of her contemporaries in...
She's got an elemental voice that comes from somewhere under the earth. She alternately moans like a woman-in-full orgasmic release, wails like a banshee, or coos like a crazed little girl, depending on her mood. In addition to singing and writing Larkin plays acoustic guitar, banjo, decrepit Casio, Chinese harp, and mountain dulcimer. Larkin Grimm was born 26 years ago in Memphis TN to hippi...