The Lowest Pair has spent more than a decade making music about the uncomfortable middle — not the moment hardship resolves itself, but the place before it, where you stop waiting for resolution and start paying attention to what’s actually there. That sensibility runs through Always As Young As We’ll Ever Be, Kendl Winter and Palmer T. Lee’s eighth album, released in January 2026 after a six-year gap between studio records. Americana Highways called it a record that “manages to make vulnerability feel not just brave but inviting” and described it as feeling like “a gentle conversation with an old friend — one who isn’t afraid to sit with you in life’s messiness.” That’s a particular kind of achievement in a studio record, and a harder one to pull off in a live room.
About the Show
The Lowest Pair is, at its core, a conversation: both Winter — who grew up in Arkansas and has spent the better part of two decades in Washington State — and Lee, a Minnesota native, play guitar and banjo, both sing, and each listens as attentively as they perform. The two have been performing together since 2013, with more than 670 documented shows between them, and that accumulated attentiveness shows in the music. Americana UK put it well when they described the dynamic between them: hers “an achingly beautiful distinctive tone that complements his smoky delivery to perfection.” Always As Young As We’ll Ever Be is their first studio album in six years, produced by Tucker Martine (known for his work with The Decemberists) at Flora Recording and Playback in Portland, Oregon. The album expands the duo’s familiar banjo-and-guitar foundation with fiddle, bass, and light percussion. Most of it stays inside the plain-spoken emotional directness the duo has always favored; “Tiny Rebellions” pushes outward, what Glide Magazine described as “heavier drums, a driving guitar, and a more psychedelic sound.” Glide called the record “a confident, well-paced record that rewards close listening.” The Buffalo show closes a short fall run that moved through St. Paul, Evanston, and Pittsburgh before landing here on Tuesday, October 27.
Venue & Logistics
The show is at The 9th Ward at Babeville, at 341 Delaware Ave in western New York. Doors are at 7 p.m.; the show starts at 8 p.m.
Tickets
Tickets are $18 in advance and $20 day of show, general admission seated, presented by DSP Shows. Buy tickets