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David Allan Coe (born September 6, 1939) is an American singer and songwriter. [2] Coe took up music after spending much of his early life in reform schools and prisons, and first became notable for busking in Nashville .
Contains alternate versions of Coe's hits up to 1981, along with the original version of "You Never Even Called Me By My Name." [12] 1984 The Best of David Allan Coe — — 1985 17 Greatest Hits — 197 US: Gold; For the Record: The First 10 Years: 46 — US: Gold; 1986 I Love Country — — 1989 Crazy Daddy — —
David Allan Coe chronology; Penitentiary Blues (1970) Requiem for a Harlequin (1973) Penitentiary Blues is the debut album of American singer David Allan Coe.
In the third verse, Coe notes "the only time I know I'll hear David Allan Coe is when Jesus has his final Judgment Day." In a spoken epilogue preceding the song's iconic closing verse, Coe relates a correspondence he had with Goodman, who stated the song he had written was the "perfect country and western song."
Rides Again was the fourth album Coe recorded for Columbia produced by Ron Bledsoe. The songs crossfade without the usual silences between tracks, which was unusual for country music, and feature Coe's heavily phased guitar. Coe was also permitted to use his own band on several tracks, a major concession for Columbia at the time.
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."
“Honey Don’t” sounds like Coe striking back at anyone who would dare question his musical credentials (“I’ve been a roadie for Satan, honey/I was the sound man for the Devil…”) and includes the repeated line “Honey don’t you pull that shit on me,” a rare expletive on a major label country record at the time.
(“Play it pretty,” Coe urges before the steel guitar break.) “Play Me a Sad Song,” is similar to the Tammy Wynette hit “Apartment#9” in structure, and even quotes the line “Loneliness surrounds me” on the chorus, while the regretful “Face to Face,” another Coe original, is a cry-in-your-beer tune that laments “Now it’s ...