★★★★★
Whereupon the singing sheet-metal worker bequeaths to posterity a whole album of 'em--simple tales of pain, guilt, and hard-earned redemption, unadorned by violins or other self-indulgences. On side two especially he finds songwriters who take sin as seriously as he does--believe me, anybody who can top "This Time I Won't Cheat on Her Again" with "I Wouldn't Cheat on Her if She Was Mine" is covering all the angles.
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2009-07-10
★★★★★
Despite the definitive "Hank Williams, You Wrote My Life," Bandy's music on Columbia has followed the pattern of such GRC anomalies as "Bandy the Rodeo Clown" and "Cowboys and Playboys"--if not tinged with pop outright, then at least softer rhythmically or melodically. I like these songs when they're good. But they misrepresent him--the cheated-upon protagonist of "The Biggest Airport in the World" is naive, which misses Bandy's point completely...
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2009-03-20
★★★★★
Next line: "Till I started lookin' for mine."
- www.robertchristgau.com
2009-02-27
★★★★★
Look closely at the bull on the back cover and you'll note piss coming out of his pizzle, but even combined with Bandy's vinegar it's not enough. However much you admire his stylistic single-mindedness, hard honky-tonk doesn't pack quite enough wallop in itself--it requires a less austere singer, or inspired material, or the kind of thematic single-mindedness that can make a whole audience love cheatin' songs again.
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2009-01-05
★★★★★
This live, circa the end of the 20th century show (no date is given in the liner notes) is billed to both Bandy and Stampley. However, it's not exactly a duet album. About one-third of it is Stampley solo, one-third of it is Bandy solo, and then they team together in a crowd-pleasing manner for the remaining third of the program...
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2008-08-27
★★★★★
For Bandy the Rodeo Clown, his final record for GRC, Moe Bandy didn't depart from the musical template his first two albums created, but he did lighten the mood a little bit, beginning to hint at the good-natured persona that would dominate his Columbia Records...
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2008-08-27
★★★★★
When Moe Bandy released his first album, I Just Started Hatin' Cheatin' Songs Today, on GRC Records in 1974, country music was immersed in one of its periodic infatuations with pop crossover. Bandy wasn't having any of that. He was based outside of Nashville and was a hardcore honky tonk singer who made no concessions to pop...
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2008-08-27
★★★★★
Released nearly four years after his last previous Top Ten single, this album gave Bandy a brief return to the spotlight. Working with record-producer Jerry Kennedy for the first time, Bandy maintains more command of his delivery than in any previous album.
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27