Artist: Two Dollar Pistols
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #71 Sep-Oct 2007
Two Dollar Pistols – Here Tomorrow, Gone Today / Snatches of Pink – Love is Dead
Over a handful of releases from the John Howie Jr.-led Two Dollar Pistols, a pattern has emerged. You’ll find, true to the band’s roots covering Roger Miller and Bobby Bare, various flavors of country that echo Bakersfield, old Nashville, even a hint of outlaw Austin. But you often also get a couple of songs that [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #51 May-June 2004
Two Dollar Pistols – Hands Up!
The Two Dollar Pistols have been around for a while, having gone through a couple of lineup changes since 1996. Nothing they’ve done in the past however, suggested the unremitting charm of Hands Up!, their third full-length release. Previously, the Pistols played a little too sloppy with songs that were a little too insolent, attempting [...]
Town and Country - Shorter Artist Feature from Issue #41 Sept-Oct 2002
Two Dollar Pistols – Honky-tonk with a bullet
Depending on how you reckon it, You Ruined Everything is either the third Two Dollar Pistols album, or the first. Ask frontman John Howie, and he’ll lean toward the latter. At the very least, You Ruined Everything is a statement: It’s the first Pistols album with no cover songs, and the first for which Howie [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #36 Nov-Dec 2001
Two Dollar Pistols – “Blistered” / “When You Had Time for Me”
With that thunderclap voice of his, there may not be a better man than John Howie to cover a song popularized by Johnny Cash, unless Sleepy LaBeef is in town. “Blistered”, written by Billy Edd Wheeler (who also authored “Jackson” and, in a karma-balancing move, “Coward Of The County”), carries the message that horniness will [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #24 Nov-Dec 1999
Two Dollar Pistols With Tift Merritt – Self-Titled (EP)
As leader of the genuine honky-tonk band Two Dollar Pistols, John Howie has been spreading the words of folks such as Carl Smith and Roger Miller in North Carolina’s Triangle area for going on four years now. If Howie has a female counterpart in the region — that is, a woman who makes country music [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #18 Nov-Dec 1998
Two Dollar Pistols – Step Right Up
North Carolina’s Two Dollar Pistols make real country music, possessing an edge that will never get them close to the Grand Ole Opry or commercial country radio, yet is deeply rooted in the traditional sound of honky-tonk. Step Right Up is a live recording that captures the Pistols in fine form. They’ve gone through a [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #16 July-Aug 1998
Two Dollar Pistols – Local 506 (Chapel Hill, NC)
Elementary physics applies to band lineups, too: For every reaction, there is an equal and opposite reaction. So while guitarist Steve Howell’s recent departure from the Backsliders is unfortunate and has thrown that band’s future into disarray, the upside is that he hasn’t gone far. Howell is hanging his hat in Chapel Hill’s Two Dollar [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #11 Sept-Oct 1997
Two Dollar Pistols – On Down The Track
John Howie has a voice you’ve never heard before, but would swear you have. Just the other night, in fact, one barstool over. Older guy, looked a little run-down and weary, knocking back one straight Scotch after another like he was trying to forget something. Except that every sip only made the memories more acute, [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #3 Spring 1996
Old 97′s / Freight Whaler / Two Dollar Pistols – The Brewery (Raleigh, N.C.)
Nowadays, it seems almost every musician in the incestuous Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Triangle music scene moonlights in at least one country band. Two of the Triangle’s better side-project bands opened this show for Dallas’ Old 97′s, who were as charming as ever (imagine an alternate version of the movie “Revenge of the Nerds”, in which the [...]
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