1. I Just Started Hatin' Cheatin' Songs Today - Moe Bandy, Owens, A.L.
2. Honky Tonk Amnesia - Moe Bandy, Shafer, S.D.
3. It Was Always So Easy (To Find an Unhappy Woman) - Moe Bandy, Shafer, Sanger
4. Don't Anyone Make Love at Home Anymore - Moe Bandy, Frazier, D.
5. Bandy the Rodeo Clown - Moe Bandy, Shafer, Sanger
6. Hank Williams, You Wrote My Life - Moe Bandy, Craft, Paul
7. She Took More Than Her Share - Moe Bandy, Schafer, Sanger D.
8. I'm Sorry for You, My Friend - Moe Bandy, Williams, Hank [1]
9. Soft Lights and Hard Country Music - Moe Bandy, Shafer, Sanger
10. That's What Makes the Jukebox Play - Moe Bandy, Work, Jimmy
11. It's a Cheating Situation - Moe Bandy, Putman, Curly
12. Two Lonely People - Moe Bandy, Benjamin, Tom
13. Barstool Mountain - Moe Bandy, Tankersley, Donn
14. I Cheated Me Right Out of You - Moe Bandy, Barker, Bobby
15. One of a Kind - Moe Bandy, Fischer, Bobby
16. Yesterday Once More - Moe Bandy, Mundy, Jimmy
17. Following the Feeling - Moe Bandy, Craig, Charlie
18. Rodeo Romeo - Moe Bandy, Mitchell, Dan [1]
19. She's Not Really Cheatin' (She's Gettin' Even) - Moe Bandy, Shaffer, Randy
20. Let's Get Over Them Together - Moe Bandy, Craig, Charlie
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"Well, it really tears me up when I hear a hurtin' song," sings Moe Bandy, "and I'm someone who likes a good cold beer." And there you have it: Moe Bandy in a nutshell. That line, from the quintessential Bandy song "Soft Lights and Hard Country Music," sums up his aesthetic quite nicely, but what it doesn't tell you is that Bandy seemed to be the only country singer who had that aesthetic in the 1970s and early 1980s. The Mississippi-born Bandy was raised in Texas and on the music of fellow Meridian native Jimmie Rodgers, honky-tonk master Hank Williams, and eventually his idol George Jones--hear how Bandy pronounces "woman" in "I Just Started Hatin' Cheatin' Songs Today" for proof of his reverence for Possum. Despite the country-pop trends of the day, he saw no reason to ever stray far from the hardcore honky-tonk that's as natural in Texas as cowboy hats. You might say he presaged the neotraditionalism of the late 1980s, except that he really wasn't "reviving" anything. He was merely playing the music he'd always loved, and since all 20 of the singles on this collection hit the Top 25, it appears that fans still loved hard country too, no matter what the popular style was at the time. After all, "a steel guitar in a dim-lit bar knows exactly how I feel." --Marc Greilsamer
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Honky Tonk Amnesia: The Hard Country Sound of Moe Bandy
- Audio CD: 0 pages (1996-02-20)
- Publisher: Razor & Tie
- Label: Razor & Tie
- Studio: Razor & Tie
- Average Customer Review:
 based on 16 reviews
- Sales Rank in Music: #80729
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Summary: 200 proof real country music. 2008-09-03
Comment: I bought this for one song that had been coming to mind for the last twenty or so years. I was pleasantly surprised to find that nearly all of the music on this CD was just as satisfying. If you're in the mood for Honky Tonk, you can't go wrong with this collection. I would highly recommend this CD for just about anyone who loves country music, especially the country style of the 60's and 70's.
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Summary: Honky Tonk is an understatement 2007-02-13
Comment: When I was a kid, my dad went through a serious Moe Bandy phase. That's basically my only connection. But I kept a havin' a yearnin' for certain songs (Amnesia, Last Bottle and Nobody make love at Home Anymore). Be aware that this music is almost a CHARICATURE of the "Honky Tonk" sound. It's about as classic for that certain era as it gets. You could play it for hipster, urban friends to make fun of Country & Western but I don't; I stand by it--and I am not what you'd call from-country-roots. All said and done, Mr. Bandy sounds like he means it, even though no one could have actually experiened that much cheatin'.
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Summary: Good old country music 2006-12-08
Comment: Just got this cd from Amazon. Every track is pure country. Lots of steel and fiddles, the way country music is surposed to be. It's good to hear those old drinkin and cheatin songs..Thanks Moe for a great cd.
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Summary: Probably the best honky tonk album ever 2006-10-12
Comment: This is an incredible honky tonk CD; this is what country music was and should be. It's all about drinking, cheating, rodeo, hurting, and all the other quintessential elements of real country. There's no pop, pseudo-country here. The first two songs--"I Just Started Hating Cheatin' Songs Today" and "Honky Tonk Amnesia"--are in the pantheon of best country songs ever.
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Summary: E. A. Kreuzer 2006-02-19
Comment: Living in Australia, I had never heard of this artist before, but thanks to Amazon, I was able to access and sample this cd. I was very impressed with the style, choice of songs , and overall feeling of the cd. Great way to just sit back and enjoy some nice country music as it was intended to be played. You wont be disappointed.
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Honky Tonk Amnesia: The Hard Country Sound of Moe Bandy
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