Souvenirs

Performer: Moe Bandy
Distributor: Universal Distribution

Notes: Liner Note Author: Bill Dahl. Fuel 2000's SOUVENIRS contains recordings Moe Bandy cut early in his career for Huey P. Meaux's regional independent labels. In other words, this is music from before Bandy started having hits, and it's very much in the Texas hard country tradition, with strong honky tonk and Western swing influences, every once in a while tempered by some R&B and rock & roll. If anything, it cuts a larger stylistic path than Bandy's breakthrough albums on GRC, which were deliberately purist in their honky tonk ideals. Much of this is somewhat generic, but in a good sense; the songs conform to honky tonk tradition, the performances are good, and the records sound like they were coming from a jukebox in a beer joint with sawdust on the floor after all the George Jones sides had already been played to death.

Moe Bandy's barroom ballads made him one of the most successful country artists still carrying the honky-tonk torch in the countrypolitan 1970s. Neither a country outlaw nor a slick commercial artist, Bandy carved out his own niche before taking the music nostalgia route and opening a theater in Branson, Missouri.

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