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Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... The First 10 Years is a compilation album by David Allan Coe. Track listing
"Mona Lisa Lost Her Smile" is a song written by Johnny Cunningham and recorded by David Allan Coe. It was the first single from Coe's 1984 album Just Divorced, and was released to radio in early 1984. The song is Coe's highest-charting single, with a peak of number two on the U.S. country music charts.
In 1994, Doug Supernaw recorded a new version of the song on his second studio album, Deep Thoughts from a Shallow Mind. [5] Supernaw's rendition features a guest vocal from Coe himself, as well as guest appearances by Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard and Charley Pride, [5] all of whom are mentioned in the original song's second verse.
The lyrics of Penitentiary Blues are often dark and foreshadow the content of Coe's later country albums, discussing themes such as working for the first time, blood tests from veins used to inject heroin, prison time, hoodoo imagery and death. [1]
Longhaired Redneck was Coe's third album for Columbia in three years and the first where he wrote or co-wrote all the songs. Coe had already written several hits for other artists and scored his own Top 10 hit in 1975 with the Steve Goodman-John Prine composition "You Never Even Called Me by My Name."
Coe’s version appeared as the b-side of “You Never Even Called Me by My Name,” and it would also be recorded as a duet by Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson in 1983 and by Johnny Cash on his album American Recordings: Solitary Man. The song, which contains poetic lyrics questioning the devotion of a prospective lover, was surprising to ...
The Mysterious Rhinestone Cowboy sets the template for many of Coe's albums throughout the seventies: an eclectic mix of original compositions and occasional cover songs steeped in Coe's self-aggrandizing personae with lyrics that ranged from braggadocios to deeply sensitive. Typical of latter is the sentimental “River,” the story of a ...
Underground Album is the 21st studio album by American country musician David Allan Coe. Underground Album is Coe's follow-up to his 1978 album Nothing Sacred.. The album's music and vocal style was similar to other country acts of the era, but the lyrics are unusually explicit.