Soft Lights and Hard Country Music is an album by country singer Moe Bandy, released in 1978. It was recorded at CBS Recording Studio "B", Nashville, Tennessee. It peaked at No. 34 on Billboards Top Country Albums chart.
Critical reception
The Chicago Tribune deemed the album "another good snort of his beer-drinking music." The Fort Worth Star-Telegram considered it "archetypical country music, and it's good."
Track listing "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 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 The Jordanaires
Production Sound engineers – Lou Bradley, Ron Reynolds Photography – Jim McGuire Album design – Bill Barnes Illustration – Gene Wilkes
Charts Chart (1978)PeakpositionUS Top Country Albums34
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