Soft Lights and Hard Country Music
Appearance
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Soft Lights and Hard Country Music | ||||
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Studio album by | ||||
Released | 1978 | |||
Genre | Country | |||
Length | 27:53 | |||
Label | Columbia | |||
Producer | Ray Baker | |||
Moe Bandy chronology | ||||
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Soft Lights and Hard Country Music is an album by country singer Moe Bandy, released in 1978.[1][2] It was recorded at CBS Recording Studio "B", Nashville, Tennessee. It peaked at No. 34 on Billboard's Top Country Albums chart.[3]
Critical reception
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [4] |
The Chicago Tribune deemed the album "another good snort of his beer-drinking music."[5] The Fort Worth Star-Telegram considered it "archetypical country music, and it's good."[6]
Track listing
[edit]- "Soft Lights and Hard Country Music" (Sanger D. Shafer) - 2:50
- "Darling, Will You Marry Me Again" (Sanger D. Shafer, Warren Robb) - 2:50
- "Paper Chains" (Steve Collom) - 2:42
- "This Haunted House" (Sanger D. Shafer, Arthur Leo "Doodle" Owens) - 2:39
- "If She Keeps Loving Me" (Glenn Martin) - 2:53
- "That's What Makes The Juke Box Play" (Jimmy Work) - 2:40
- "There's Nobody Home on the Range Anymore" (Ed Penney, Robert Shaw Parsons) - 2:54
- "Are We Making Love or Just Making Friends" (Steve Collom) - 2:50
- "A Wound Time Can't Erase" (Bill D. Johnson) - 2:46
- "A Baby and a Sewing Machine" (Ken McDuffie) - 2:49
Musicians
[edit]- Charlie McCoy (Courtesy of Monument Records)
- Hargus "Pig" Robbins (Courtesy of Elektra Records)
- Johnny Gimble
- Weldon Myrick
- Ray Edenton
- Bunky Keels
- Dave Kirby
- Kenny Malone
- Bob Moore
- Leo Jackson
- Reggie Young
- Tommy Allsup
Backing
[edit]- The Jordanaires
Production
[edit]- Sound engineers - Lou Bradley & Ron Reynolds
- Photography - Jim McGuire
- Album design - Bill Barnes
- Illustration - Gene Wilkes
References
[edit]- ^ Ching, Barbara (2001). Wrong's What I Do Best: Hard Country Music and Contemporary Culture. Oxford University Press. p. 9.
- ^ Country Music: The Encyclopedia. St. Martin's Press. 2000. p. 28.
- ^ "Moe Bandy". Billboard. Retrieved 7 March 2024.
- ^ "Soft Lights and Hard Country Music Moe Bandy". AllMusic. Retrieved 7 March 2024.
- ^ Hurst, Jack (19 Mar 1978). "Moe Bandy". Chicago Tribune. p. 6.14.
- ^ Stewart, Perry (25 Mar 1978). "Records". Fort Worth Star-Telegram. p. 4C.