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"A duo unafraid to take fascinating, artistic risks... a dark country gem.  If what you're after is country music given a poetic, punk-rock kick, then look no further than The Smoking Flowers." ~  Maverick Magazine (4 out of 5 stars)
 
"As a writer it's gotten to the point where I'm floored when I discover someone with true talent and originality.  It's rare that an album captures this kind of unabashed emotion without resorting to hip distancing devices or a wall of sound... Kim & Scott Collins are a couple of poets who can express such things in a way you haven't heard before." ~ The Vinyl Anachronist
 
"The Smoking Flowers’  2 Guns album is a hell of a piece of work. Often beautifully ragged; sometimes beautifully haunting; many times beautifully goofy-grinned and/or playful, pleading, or pledging - but always beautiful... a punkish/alt-country/whatever-you-need-it-to-be masterpiece. ” – Relix JamBands
 
“Provocative and risky” - POP MATTERS
 
"An edgy Civil Wars... or The White Stripes if Meg sang like a country angel and they lived on a dirt road."
 ~ Kyle O'Brien (Pitchfork)
 
"Raw, unpolished, and exciting... a DNA mash up of Presley, Jason and The Scorchers, and Robert Plant, whom, ironically, originally considered Kim for the part now filled by Patti Griffin in the Band of Joy." - Net Rhythms UK

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