In North Carolina, if you're a music fan of any stripe, you know the name John Howie Jr. John is a singer and writer who grew up in a trailer in the Wake County woods. He's a Chapel Hill stalwart inevitably bound for the NC Music Hall of Fame. He plays country music - straight, no chaser, with the soulful baritone of a backwoods Barry White.

His current outfit, John Howie Jr and the Rosewood Bluff, is beloved by fans, critics, and fellow musicians. His previous band, The Two Dollar Pistols is known world-wide as a gold standard modern Honky Tonk Country Music. John also made a classic duets record with Tift Merritt, and played drums with Sarah Shook and the Disarmers, and the infamous Chapel Hill band, Snatches of Pink.

And he does it all sober as a judge. Now anyway.

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