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Here is the sound of momentum: Sarah Lee Langford and Will Stewart roving together through the oldest tropes of country music and every other genre. Here find rugged landscapes, whiskey barrooms, the same old bad luck and love. And yet the nine-song romp delivers a hundred fresh takes.
Langford once delivered bluegrass birdsong. Now she has left that behind for a brash, bright country-folk sound, girded with guitars. The unhurried tracks highlight the power of this pair singing together.  They harmonize plenty, but on the tracks where Stewart sings lead, Langford becomes his textured echo. She doubles his melody, tugging some notes and pinching others, as if testing what sung words can withstand. Her Southern accent is one of the album’s purest pleasures. Her voice rings out and curls around certain consonants. The twang would aggravate if it didn’t hypnotize. Listen and you want to get plucked. 
Stewart's 2018 record County Seat, 2020 EP Way Gone, and fresh 2022 release Slow Life (Cornelius Chapel Records) all have the basic elements of songs present here, the back-porch-in-the-moonlight-after-midnight mood welcome and warm.  Stewart is a backwoods sleeper agent--if you focus on his countrified guitar power, you’re liable to miss the strength of the tenor instrument delivered with an inviting charm. 
Langford and Stewart are frequent collaborators. They perform here with friends Keelan Parrish (Vulture Whale), Brian Gosdin (Dexateens), and Ford Boswell (Early James) and on Langford’s Two-Hearted Rounder (Cornelius Chapel Records). But that album came out in 2019, back when we all lived on another planet. Bad Luck and Love resonates with all that we’ve survived. 
These are Birmingham, Alabama's hymns to the hard work of getting by, in relationship and on stage. If exploration is a theme of Bad Luck and Love, the pedal steel that makes the record so red-dirt earthy ends by taking us to outer space. “I thank my lucky stars ‘cause I think stars are lucky / Plus we’re spinning around in space, no place to lay our heads.” 
And look how the heavens trick us anyway: “I made a wish upon a star but it was just an airplane / I gazed up at the moon, a full and beautiful lamppost.” 
Still, the pair’s stargazing has brought us this far. In the end, they take us into orbit to study the turning world. 

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released November 18, 2022

Sarah Lee Langford, vocals and guitar
Will Stewart, vocals and guitar
Keelan Parrish, bass
Brian Gosdin, drums
Ford Boswell, pedal steel

Recorded at Communicating Vessels, Birmingham AL
Engineered by Brad Timko
Mastered by Alex McCollough

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Sarah Lee Langford Birmingham, Alabama

Two Hearted Rounder, the new album from Sarah Lee Langford, is on a precipice. More specifically: A barstool – a place where life is messy, but the whiskey is neat.

Backed by a gang of Birmingham, AL’s greasiest rockers, including members of The Dexateens and Vulture Whale, Two Hearted Rounder is blessed with loose limbs as well as deadly aim.
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