the scent of cheap bourbon fresh on the band’s collective breath. In the mid-’60s, Buck Owens crooned, “close up the honky tonks,” but with Hands Up! the Two Dollar Pistols have the old ...

And, since 1996, he’s continued these good works as the frontman–and the one constant–in North Carolina’s finest country band, the Two Dollar Pistols. The idea for the Two Dollar Pistols ...