Larry Campbell & Teresa Williams trade Babeville for Mohawk Place

The duo's first Buffalo show since 2019 is a $30 Sunday night in a 225-capacity room on Jan. 31, 2027, with a new album, All This Time, behind them.

The last time Larry Campbell and Teresa Williams played Buffalo, it was Dec. 9, 2019, at Asbury Hall at Babeville. Their return is smaller and closer: Sunday, Jan. 31, 2027, at Mohawk Place, at 7 p.m., with tickets at $30 through The Ticketing Company.

Mohawk Place holds about 225 people. For a duo whose music was shaped in a barn full of people sitting close, that's not a step down. It might be the right size.

The barn in question is Levon Helm's. Their self-titled debut was, in the words of their publicist Shore Fire Media, honed at Levon Helm's Midnight Rambles, the house concerts at Helm's place in Woodstock. When that record came out, Shore Fire passed along MOJO's description of the pair as "the first couple of Americana", and the tag has stuck.

What's changed since 2019 is a new record. All This Time is the couple's fourth album, following Larry Campbell and Teresa Williams in 2015, Contraband Love in 2017 and Live at Levon's in 2023, according to Sweetwater Music Hall's listing for their December show there. That listing describes it as recognizably a post-Covid album, which tracks: the five years between the last Buffalo visit and now have been long ones for everybody, and for touring musicians in particular.

The pair are on the road through the winter. JamBase lists dates running from mid-December into late February, and Buffalo's Sunday sits right in the middle of that run.

There's a reason this is worth leaving the house for in the last week of January. Campbell and Williams make the kind of music that rewards a room where you can hear the harmonies land and see who's leading whom. The genres on the bill are rock, country and folk, and in practice that means a set that moves between all three without announcing it. A 225-cap room on a Sunday night is about as close as you can get without being on stage.

For a duo whose music was shaped in a barn full of people sitting close, that's not a step down.

The earlier start is a mercy on a work night, and the price is the kind you don't have to think hard about. The listing is on JamBase.

Seven years is a long time between visits. Buffalo in January is not easy to love, but a warm room and two people who've been singing together this long is a decent argument for trying.

Sources: Shore Fire Media: Larry Campbell and Teresa Williams debut, honed at Levon Helm's Midnight Rambles (shorefire.com); Shore Fire Media: The First Couple of Americana (MOJO) debut LP out today (shorefire.com); Sweetwater Music Hall: Larry Campbell & Teresa Williams (sweetwatermusichall.org); JamBase: Larry Campbell & Teresa Williams tour dates (jambase.com); The Ticketing Company tickets (theticketing.co); JamBase listing (jambase.com)