“How Are You Doing?” is the Living Sisters song I want to hear twice. Living Sisters can make me feel like my last name is von Trapp and I’m tumbling playfully down a green hill wearing a dress made from window curtains. Eleni Mandell, Becky Stark, and Inara George take turns playing Maria, my badass [...]

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Something of a Los Angeles vocal supergroup, the Living Sisters are composed of the Bird and the Bee’s Inara George, Lavender Diamond’s Becky Stark and Eleni Mandell’s Eleni Mandell. This is a practiced tribute to the great harmonizers of jazz, early rock ‘n’ roll and country.

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photography by Ward Robinson

Inara George performing at the Bootleg Theatre on November 10, 2009 with Eleni Mandell opening.

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Shortly after the Largo jam session featuring Harper Simon and his circle of Silver Lake superstar friends, I got a text: “Was he at least as good as Jakob Dylan?” my friend asked waggishly.

Well, sure! Maybe!

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Dan Monick

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