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Topic: Country Music needs another Moe Bandy..! |
Per Kammersgaard
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Sonderborg, Denmark
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Posted 21 Dec 2009 1:20 pm |
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I was listening to Moe Bandy's third GRC album, and got to thinkin' that Country Music sure needs another Bandy, to come along and save our music. Here's what Nick Tosches wrote on the cover of "Bandy The Rodeo Clown"
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Archie Nicol R.I.P.
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Ayrshire, Scotland
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Posted 21 Dec 2009 1:54 pm
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What with all that steel guitar and fiddle, I doubt if it would qualify as `Country` these days. 
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Leslie Ehrlich
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Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
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Posted 21 Dec 2009 2:57 pm
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I'd listen to Moe Bandy so long as he doesn't sing 'Too Old To Die Young'. Country radio played that song to death and I don't care if I never hear it again. 
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Rick Campbell
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Sneedville, TN, USA
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Posted 21 Dec 2009 4:37 pm
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| Leslie Ehrlich wrote: |
| I'd listen to Moe Bandy so long as he doesn't sing 'Too Old To Die Young'. Country radio played that song to death and I don't care if I never hear it again. |
I'm with you on that, and I'll add Americana to my list. Moe has some really good songs too, and I like his singing.
Last time I saw him live he was using one of those Garth Brooks NASA mics. I don't like that. I like to see the singer work the stand up mic. It kind of seems like the mic stand is the connection with the audience. The NASA mics and walking all over the stage seems to disconnect with the audience. My preference anyway, but Garth make a lot of money doing it that way........ but not any of my money.
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Kevin Lange
From:
Dickson, TN
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Posted 21 Dec 2009 5:21 pm
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A friend of mine and I had the pleasure of doing the production for the Moe Bandy show on Dec. 13 at a club here in St. Cloud, MN. Moe and his guys did a fantastic job. They worked for 1 3/4 hours to a packed house, playing hit after hit. They are also some of the nicest guys we've ever had a chance to work with, undemanding and very pleasant. The club that we were in has a national act about once a month, and I hope every of those acts is at least half as easy to work with. If you get the chance to take in the Moe Bandy show, do it, you will be entertained. By the way, Moe used a mic on a stand.
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Jeff Evans
From:
Cowtown and The Bill Cox Outfit
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Jody Sanders
From:
Magnolia,Texas, R.I.P.
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Posted 21 Dec 2009 6:11 pm
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| In the middle 70's Moe Bandy was doing some singles and I was fortunate to be in one of the bands he used. He was extremely nice and complimentary to all us guys. Jody PS We had rehearsed his tunes for 2 weeks before the gigs. |
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Rick Campbell
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Sneedville, TN, USA
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Posted 21 Dec 2009 7:46 pm
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It Was Always So Easy To Find An Unhappy Woman (till I stated looking for mine)
Cheating Situation
Now that's country music if I ever heard it. Moe is the real deal for that kind of song. I guess he's doing Branson now?
What ever happened to Joe Stampley? Is he still working?
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Jeff Evans
From:
Cowtown and The Bill Cox Outfit
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Posted 21 Dec 2009 8:52 pm
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Don't forget country music's best airport song, courtesy of Whitey Shafer.
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BIGGEST AIRPORT IN THE WORLD
(Sanger D. Shafer)
« © '75 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
I've never seen so many faces goin' to so many places at one time
This Dallas Fort Worth Airport is so big it blows this country boy's mind
She said she'd meet me here at eight
We'd have some coffee then get on that morning flight
And hurry to El Paso and marry in old Mexico tonight
I met her in a tavern about a week ago and right away we made the plans
I bought her pretty dresses for the honeymoon down on the Rio Grande
She's a little late for coffee
But there's no need to worry cause I'll find that girl
It's so easy to get lost here in the biggest airport in the world
I guess I've walked ten miles looking for that lovin' smile that could never lie
Just because she flirts with others
That don't mean that she would never miss this morning flight
Now that big jet plane is leaving
But my heart keeps on believing that she's still my girl
And she's somewhere lost and all alone in the biggest airport in the world
I know she's lost and crying in the biggest airport in the world — http://www.lpdiscography.com/b/Bandy/bandy_hankwilliams.htm |
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Jeff Evans
From:
Cowtown and The Bill Cox Outfit
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Sonny Priddy
From:
Elizabethtown, Kentucky, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 22 Dec 2009 4:19 pm Moe bandy
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| Soft Lights Hard Country Music. The Greats For Me. SONNY. |
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Rick Campbell
From:
Sneedville, TN, USA
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Posted 22 Dec 2009 5:36 pm Re: Moe bandy
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| Sonny Priddy wrote: |
| Soft Lights Hard Country Music. The Greats For Me. SONNY. |
Sonny, that is a good one. Soft Lights... I stole Weldon's lick right before the tag and used it on my recording of Del Reeves "Only Girl I Can't Forget"
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Charles Davidson
From:
Phenix City Alabama, USA
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Posted 22 Dec 2009 8:24 pm
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Rick,Mr. Yearwood's mike is not worth a damn in a bar fight. Nothing beats an Atlas Sound stand,And a SM-57 makes a pretty good black jack. YOU BETCHA, DYK?BC.
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Jeff Evans
From:
Cowtown and The Bill Cox Outfit
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Posted 24 Dec 2009 7:52 am
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"Home Is Where the Hurt Is"
Weldon Myrick. Unapologetically hardcore country.
Ignore the ringtone stuff. The song will stream (play automatically) if you have Flash installed. |
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Brandon Ordoyne
From:
Needville,Texas USA
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Posted 24 Dec 2009 9:31 am
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I like his work..definitly hardcore country....I like the one him and Joe Stampley did.."Good Ole' Boys"...I love the steel work in it ! Cool thread!
Brandon
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Jerry Overstreet
From:
Louisville Ky
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Posted 24 Dec 2009 10:24 am
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I'm a big fan of Moe Bandy's work too. I think Too Old to Die Young and Americana are nice tunes about family life and living in the US. I don't know why anyone would want to disregard them, but different strokes I guess.
The subject of the post is a good one, but his kind of material wouldn't get played on radio today anymore than does a lot of the good traditional stuff currently being recorded. |
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Marlin Smoot
From:
Kansas
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Posted 24 Dec 2009 12:04 pm
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| I saw Tommy Detamore play with Moe in a small club in Oklahoma back in the day and Tommy's focus, attention to detail and tone still is a lasting impression. |
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Rick Campbell
From:
Sneedville, TN, USA
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Posted 24 Dec 2009 2:07 pm
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| Jerry Overstreet wrote: |
I'm a big fan of Moe Bandy's work too. I think Too Old to Die Young and Americana are nice tunes about family life and living in the US. I don't know why anyone would want to disregard them, but different strokes I guess.
The subject of the post is a good one, but his kind of material wouldn't get played on radio today anymore than does a lot of the good traditional stuff currently being recorded. |
Yes, they are good tunes. I've just got a listening preference for the crying in your beer music.
Tommy Detamore is not just a great player. He's got plenty of great ideas to go with it. One of my favorites for sure. |
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Jerry Overstreet
From:
Louisville Ky
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Posted 24 Dec 2009 2:40 pm
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Well, no argument here about Tommy D's playing for sure.  |
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Bill Miller
From:
Gaspe, Quebec, Canada
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Posted 24 Dec 2009 2:44 pm
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Moe Bandy disappointed a lot of people when he did a show here years ago. There was a small crowd ( to be expected in a small town in predominently french speaking Quebec) and he seemed very reluctant to get off the bus and sing. The band played without him for ever so long and then he finally took the stage and did a very abbreviated show. We were standing around saying " What?!! It can't be over yet!"  I didn't take it too badly since I've always been more into musicians than singers anyways. The band was super and I met Tommy Detamore and he showed me around his new pedal steel. But as for Moe, he left several hundred loyal fans wondering what they'd paid admission for. I like the kind of performers who give the fans 100% every night, regardless of whether there's 200 people or 20,000. ( Charlie Pride was a different story when he was here I'll tell ya!) |
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Jeff Evans
From:
Cowtown and The Bill Cox Outfit
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Jeff Evans
From:
Cowtown and The Bill Cox Outfit
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Posted 31 Dec 2009 8:48 am Chuck, chuck, chuck, chuck . . .
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Depending on how you count, this song has a quadruple or quintuple "chuck" fiddle on the second half of this intro by Buddy Spicher. The fiddle sound is fantastic, I think.
See if you don't think the tempo and feel/groove on the cut are just right, too.
Darling, Will You Marry Me Again? |
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