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Since the decade began, Coe and producer Billy Sherrill did their best to widen Coe’s audience and appeal to country mainstream country radio in a number of ways, such as using outside writers and inviting guests to record duets, but success remained elusive. Coe’s highest charting single during this period was "Get a Little Dirt on Your ...
Requiem for a Harlequin is the second album by American musician David Allan Coe. [4] [5] It was released in 1970 on SSS International Records. [6]The album is a departure from Coe's work mostly in the country music genre.
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 .
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.
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 ...
Pages in category "Songs written by David Allan Coe" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
"Longhaired Redneck" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist David Allan Coe. It was released in January 1976 as the lead single from Coe's album of the same name. It was released in January 1976 as the lead single from Coe's album of the same name.
With its radio-friendly sound and guest duets, Coe's previous album I've Got Something to Say was an attempt to reach a wider country audience, and this process is continued on Invictus (Means) Unconquered, with producer Billy Sherrill couching the songs in tasteful instrumentation that put the spotlight squarely on Coe's voice.