Moe Bandy

Moe Bandy spent about twelve years as a sheet metal worker for his father in San Antonio and played honky-tonks at night with Moe and the Mavericks, a band he formed in 1962. A 1964 single made no impression, and he went solo in 1973 on a producer's advice to try Nashville. His song about hating cheating songs charted the next spring, and Bandy the Rodeo Clown, drawn from his rodeo years with his brother Mike, reached No. 7 in 1975. His 1984 duet novelty with Joe Stampley, Where's the Dress, drew copyright trouble over its borrowed intro.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Mississippi Arts + Entertainment Experience — steps away
  Meridian's two-level museum of Mississippi artists and entertainers, opened in 2018, with a Hall of Fame and a Walk of Fame that leads to it from the Riley Center.
• Meridian Civil Rights Trail — 0.3 mi
  An 18-stop self-guided trail through Meridian, from the Black business district and the 1964 Freedom Summer office to Wechsler School, the federal courthouse and James Chaney's grave.
• Jimmie Rodgers Museum — 0.4 mi
  The museum in Meridian that holds the guitar of the Singing Brakeman, Jimmie Rodgers, the first inductee of the Country Music Hall of Fame.
• Highland Park Dentzel Carousel — 1.5 mi
  The last two-row stationary Dentzel menagerie in the world, in its original carousel house in Meridian's Highland Park, a National Historic Landmark since 1987.

More markers nearby

• Elsie McWilliams — steps away
• Meridian — steps away
• Meridian Rhythm & Blues and Soul Music — 0.2 mi
• Temple Theater — 0.3 mi