Adam Lee and the Dead Horse Sound Company on whiskey, women, and the beauty of lap steel

Early on a Tuesday night, dressed like they just stepped off a plane from Marlboro Country, Adam Lee and Johnny Kenepaske, of Adam Lee and the Dead Horse Sound Company, stride into Chez Charlie’s in midtown to discuss their second full-length release, When the Spirits Move Me. It’s a honky-tonk-heavy album that celebrates whiskey, women and the beauty of lap steel.

The Pitch: Are all the songs about drinking?

Adam Lee: There’s a lot. A lot. I would say at least half of them.

Johnny Kenepaske: More than half.

Lee: That wasn’t intentional.

Kenepaske: We were just singin’ about what we know.