David Allan Coe

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David Allan Coe (born September 6, 1939 in Akron, Ohio) often abbreviated as DAC, is an American country music singer who achieved his greatest popularity in the 1970s and 1980s. He has written and performed over 280 original songs throughout his long career. As a songwriter, his best-known compositions are "Would You Lay with Me (in a Field of Stone)," originally recorded by Tanya Tucker, and "Take this Job and Shove It." The latter was a #1 hit for Johnny Paycheck, and it was later turned into a hit movie (both Coe and Paycheck had minor parts in the film.)

Coe was once a member of the Outlaws Motorcycle Club[1].

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[edit] Style

In addition to humorous songs like "You Never Even Call Me By My Name", a Steve Goodman/John Prine composition, he also includes references to himself in his songs to self-promote himself through his music. He references big stars of country music in his lyrics in a way that makes himself their equal, such as in "Willie, Waylon, and Me," and on the line "Johnny Cash helped me get out of prison" in "Longhaired Redneck."

His long career has included twenty-six LPs, with 1987's Matter of Life... and Death being one of the most successful and critically acclaimed. He even put out a concept album, Compass Point, that threads his autobiography (or that of his persona) through an encounter with the famous Caribbean studio for which it was named and where it was recorded.

[edit] Rebel Meets Rebel

Coe sang lead vocals for Rebel Meets Rebel, and country-metal bands consisting of Coe and Dimebag Darrell, Vinnie Paul, and Rex Brown from Pantera. The self-titled album was recorded between 1999 and 2001, but wasn't released until after Darrell's Death in 2004.

[edit] Controversy

Coe recorded two albums in the 1980s containing racist and misogynistic lyrics of extreme vulgarity. "Nothing Sacred" and "Underground Album". Also available is a best of the x-rated albums compilation entitled "18-X Rated Hits". For this reason, the earlier racist songs by the country musician known as Johnny Rebel have been falsely attributed to Coe. Johnny Rebel is the pseudonym of Cajun/country musician Clifford Joseph "Pee Wee" Trahan (born October 3, 1938). Trahan has used this pseudonym most notably on racist recordings issued in the 1960s on J. D. "Jay" Miller's Reb Rebel label of Crowley, Louisiana.[1][2][3]

Coe refuses to acknowledge or play his own "X-Rated" controversial songs in concert. Despite these recordings DAC insists he is not nor has he ever been a racist and in fact had a black man both in his band and as a roommate. However, the albums are for sale through the Official David Allan Coe web site.

Coe spent significant time in Ohio State Prison (22 years according to him) before moving to Nashville. According to Coe he was sent to reform school at age nine and remained there until he was eighteen prior to the Ohio State Prison term. His life has consisted of many twists and turns and he says he has grown into the man he is today after many years of personal and professional struggle.

[edit] Selected discography

Songs and singles

Albums

  • Requiem for a Harlequin
  • Mysterious Rhinestone Cowboy
  • Once Upon a Rhyme
  • Longhaired Redneck
  • Texas Moon
  • Rides Again
  • Greatest Hits
  • Tattoo
  • Family Album
  • Human Emotions
  • Spectrum VII
  • Compass Point
  • Nothing Sacred
  • I've Got Something to Say
  • Invictus Means Unconquered
  • Tennessee Whiskey
  • Rough Rider
  • D.A.C.
  • Underground Album
  • Biggest Hits
  • Castles in the Sand
  • Hello in There
  • David Allan Coe or Else
  • Original Outlaw
  • The Best of David Allan Coe
  • Just Divorced
  • Why Me
  • The First Ten Years
  • Darlin Darlin
  • Unchained
  • I Love Country
  • Son of the South
  • Matter of Life and Death
  • 17 Greatest Hits
  • Crazy Daddy
  • Hits Of David Allan Coe
  • 18 X-Rated Hits
  • Headed For The Country
  • 1990 Songs for Sale
  • Standing Too Close to the Flame
  • Super Hits
  • Granny's off Her Rocker
  • Living on the Edge
  • If That Ain't Country (live)
  • Recommended for Airplay
  • Songwriter of the Tear
  • Live at the Iron Horse Saloon
  • Live at Billy Bob's Texas
  • For the Soul and for the Mind
  • 16 Biggest Hits
  • All I'll Ever Be (only available on his official website)
  • Rebel Meets Rebel

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ David Allan Coe: Bike Week's pied piper Jim Witters, Daytona Beach News-Journal Online, retrieved 12 September 2007
  2. ^ http://www.countrystandardtime.com/d/article.asp?xid=360
  3. ^ http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/davidallancoe/articles/story/7488543/coe_revisits_penitentiary


[edit] References

  • Tucker, Stephen R. (1998). "David Allan Coe". In The Encyclopedia of Country Music. Paul Kingsbury, Editor. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 102.

[edit] External links

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