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| Soft Lights and Hard Country Music | ||||
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| Released | 1978 | |||
| Genre | Country | |||
| Length | 27:53 | |||
| Label | Columbia | |||
| Producer | Ray Baker | |||
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Soft Lights and Hard Country Music is an album by country singer Moe Bandy, released in 1978. [1] [2] It was recorded at CBS Recording Studio "B", Nashville, Tennessee. It peaked at No. 34 on Billboard's Top Country Albums chart. [3]
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| AllMusic |   [4] |
The Chicago Tribune deemed the album "another good snort of his beer-drinking music." [5] The Fort Worth Star-Telegram considered it "archetypical country music, and it's good." [6]
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