Western Swing

THE BAND FORMERLY KNOWN AS MIKE AND THE MOONPIES ENTERS A NEW ERA

By Matt Hendrickson

Mike Harmeier hated the name almost from the start. The Texas native cut his teeth in the mid-2000s, playing country covers at any Austin bar that would have him. A highlight of his set back then was a version of Tracy Byrd’s 1994 hit “Lifestyles of the Not So Rich and Famous,” in which Byrd sings that he doesn’t drink champagne or eat caviar but prefers “RC Cola and a MoonPie.” Between marathon gigs at honky-tonks like the Hole in the Wall and the White Horse, Harmeier was writing his own material, too, and when an offer came to go into the studio with some Austin friends, he needed a name. Without much thought, he came up with Mike and the Moonpies. “The alliteration was funny to me; we were…

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