Two Dollar Pistols.... Outdoors?

Two Dollar Pistols
Southern Village Square, Chapel Hill, NC
Sunday, May 21st, 2006

What a night to hear a live concert! It was cool, no humidity, not a cloud in the sky. We were under some trees in a grassy town common, listening to some authentic North Carolina Good Country. That's considerably different from just plain "Country", but y'all already know that.

I'm not a big fan of the "all-inclusive communities," those little experimental "towns" with restaurants, a bank, doctors, markets, even a movie theatre, placed all together with apartments, condos, and townhomes, out in the middle of nowhere. There's a few around here in Chapel Hill. I'd actually been to Southern Village before, once with Godzilla, M.D., actually. (Long story!) So anyway, I might not be the biggest fans of this sort of living arrangement, but I have to you -- they've got great taste in music, and they've got a great little "town square" to have a concert in.

The Two Dollar Pistols, the Triangle's own best honkytonk band, gave us the old-school Country-on-a-Sunday-afternoon best. This was a very different sort of venue from where I've seen the pistols in the past -- no dim lights, thick smoke, or loud, loud music. Just a PA system, some folks on folding chairs with coolers. Beer, wine, and picnic food. Laid back, but engaging.

I was thinking of lot of Guy Clark's song, "A Nickel For the Fiddler," where he describes a Texas country concert in the summer. This was a bit different, (no freakin' Texas heat!) but the feeling of everyone hanging out, groovin' to some kick-ass Country was the same.

Anway, I hope this means that the Pistols are back in the gig scene, and that I'll be seeing more of them soon. John Howie did mention having another CD in the works. C'mon, Yep Roc, let's get that out!