Tale of Two

Revenge, drink and deeply flawed people populate the songs of A Tale of Two, the Americana and blues duo of singer Stephanie Adlington, from West Virginia, and guitarist Aaron Lessard, from Massachusetts. They count Tom Waits, Ray LaMontagne, Patsy Cline and Hank Williams among their models, and their album Renegade, produced by John Estes, includes a reading of Waits's "Gun Street Girl." The pair have opened for Mary Gauthier, Grayson Capps and Peter Mulvey, played official showcases at AMERICANAFEST and Folk Alliance International, and were finalists in the Kerrville New Folk competition. At Fogartyville, as elsewhere, the back-and-forth between songs is part of the act.