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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 .
The original vinyl release of Human Emotions is divided into two parts, Happy Side and Su-I-Side (with side one filled with songs composed by Coe and some recorded before another wife left him) and side two focusing on the aftermath, with the tunes connected by the sound of beach waves.
A Matter of Life…and Death would be Coe’s final album for Columbia, a partnership that stretched back to 1974 and produced 21 studio albums. Coe and longtime producer Billy Sherrill enjoyed their biggest commercial success together in the 1980s with Top 5 singles “The Ride” and “Mona Lisa Lost Her Smile," but by the end of the decade a new generation of country singers were ...
As was his habit occasionally, Coe gave each side of the LP a theme, with side one being the Down Side and side two being the Up Side. Ever the prolific songwriter, Coe wrote six of the ten songs on the LP, which was his fifth release of new material for Columbia in three years, including the third in a series of songs called “For Lovers, Pt. 3."
Darlin’, Darlin’ contains mostly cover versions of songs, but Coe’s incredible versatility as an interpretive singer comes to the fore on his renditions of Smokey Robinson's "My Girl" (an outtake from the previous album Just Divorced) and J.J. Cale's "Call Me the Breeze", although most of the LP is rooted in traditional country music.
I've Got Something to Say is an album released by country musician David Allan Coe. It was released in 1980 on Columbia . Guy Clark , Bill Anderson , Dickey Betts (from The Allman Brothers Band ), Kris Kristofferson , Larry Jon Wilson , and George Jones are all featured on this album.
Coe’s fourth album in two years was written and recorded during a period of marital turmoil, and the five songs he composed for the LP reflect this personal upheaval. The first two numbers, “Pouring Water on a Drowning Man” and “What Made You Change Your Mind,” are cry-in-your-beer breakup songs coming to the painful realisation that ...
AllMusic writer Thom Jurek deems the collection “some of Coe's bitterest, most accusatory breakup songs…” [1] The mood picks up considerably on Drinking Side with “She Loved the Leavin’ Out of Me,” another one of Coe’s Jimmy Buffett-style recordings, and Coe dedicates “Whiskey, Whiskey (Take My Mind)” to Buffett, a surprise ...