Moe Bandy

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Marion Franklin "Moe" Bandy, Jr. (born February 12, 1944) is an American country music performer.

He was most popular in the 1970s, both alone and with his singing partner, Joe Stampley.

Early life and recordings

Marion Bandy was born in Meridian, Mississippi, United States, and Jimmie Rodgers' hometown. "My grandfather worked on the railroads with Jimmie Rodgers," he later said. He was the boss of the railway yard in Meridian, and Jimmie Rodgers worked for him. He said he played his guitar all the time between jobs."

When he was a boy, his father called Moe. When Moe was six years old, the Bandy family moved to San Antonio, Texas. His mother mastered piano and sang. Bandy was taught by his father, who had a boy band called the Mission City Playboys, but he didn't know how to use the guitar until he was in his teens. It's his father's wish that Moe also play the fiddle that never came true.

He made several appearances with the Mission City Playboys, but he demonstrated no enthusiasm for music nor did he have a keen interest in rodeos during his high school years. He tried bronco-busting and bull riding, and by the time he was 16, he and his brother Mike were competing in rodeos all over Texas.

Later life

"I really think my songs are about life," Bandy said of his music. Everywhere, cheating, partying, and divorcing are common, and hardcore country music is all about it. "I'd have done all the things I sing about," he said.

In 1991, Bandy opened his famous Americana Theatre in Branson, Missouri, where he appears on a daily basis.

In 2007, Moe and his brother, Mike Bandy, a six-time NFR bull-riding qualifier, were inducted into the Texas Rodeo Cowboy Hall of Fame.

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Career success

In 1962, he began to pursue a career in country music. He assembled a band that he called Moe and the Mavericks and found work playing small beer joints, honky-tonks, and clubs over a wide area around San Antonio. When he was young he tried to sound like Hank Williams and George Jones – "I even had my hair cut short like his."

During the day he worked for his father as a sheet metal worker, a job that lasted for 12 years, during which time he made a few recordings for various small labels. In 1964, his first single, "Lonely Girl", made little impression. In 1973, he went solo when record producer Ray Baker, who had listened to his demos, suggested that he come to Nashville, Tennessee. Bandy's song "I Just Started Hatin' Cheatin' Songs Today" was initially released on Footprint Records but it came to the attention of the GRC record label. In March 1974, it entered the US country chart, eventually peaking at number 17. Other minor hits followed, including "It Was Always So Easy To Find An Unhappy Woman (Till I Started Looking For Mine)" and "Don't Anyone Make Love at Home Anymore".

In 1975, a song written by his friend Lefty Frizzell and Whitey Shaffer gave him a number 7 country hit. "Bandy The Rodeo Clown" was to become not only one of his own favorites but also one of his most popular recordings. Bandy found success at Columbia Records with Paul Craft's "Hank Williams, You Wrote My Life" and added further hits, including "Here I Am Drunk Again". From 1977 through 1979, he was a country chart regular with singles such as "I'm Sorry For You, My Friend", "Cowboys Ain't Supposed To Cry", "That's What Makes The Jukebox Play", and a duet with Janie Fricke, "It's A Cheating Situation". In 1979, he achieved his first solo number 1 with "I Cheated Me Right Out of You".

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