In this week's episode we're featuring a mid-80s album on for the always-country Moe Bandy: "Motel Matches" (1984). Bandy made traditional country music and rarely deviated from it. Respected country historian Bill Malone called Moe Bandy's music "a breath of fresh air through the fetid morass of country pop" - and even though it was 1984, "Motel Matches" was more of the same. Throughout his career thus far, Bandy had specialised in hard country songs about drinking and cheating (often depicted in the artwork on some of country's most glorious album covers) and a good chunk of our feature album is firmly in his wheelhouse once more. A relationship with songwriter Whitey Shafer which began with "Bandy The Rodeo Clown" and "I Just Started Hating Cheating Songs Today" in the early 70s continues with "In Mexico" and "Don't Start Me Cheatin' Again". Other highlights include one of two singles in "It Took A Lot Of Drinkin' (To Get That Woman Over Me)" and a comfortable song for Bandy (a 2007 Texas Rodeo Hall Of Fame inductee) in "The Horse That You Can't Ride".
Larry Ballard - Honky Tonk Heaven Is A Hell Of A Place To Be
Kitty Wells & Red Foley - Together Again
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Rex Allen, Jr. - Ridin' High
Daryle Singletary - Ain't It The Truth
The Man Behind The Music: Roger Springer
Vern Gosdin - Out Of My Heart
Little Darlin Records b/w The Homesteaders - A New Frontier
George Strait - Beyond The Blue Neon
Johnny Bond - The Very Best Of Johnny Bond
David Houston - Where Love Used To Live/My Woman's Good To Me
Vernon Oxford - If I Had My Wife To Love Over
Red Steagall - Hang On Feelin'
Johnny Bush & The Bandoleros - Live! At Dance Town USA
Al Dean & The Allstars - From Texas To Nashville
Rose Maddox - Reckless Love & Bold Adventure
Merlin Gene - People, Places & Things
Conway Twitty - Play, Guitar Play
Merle Haggard - Blue Jungle
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