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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 .
Johnny Paycheck (born Donald Eugene Lytle; May 31, 1938 – February 19, 2003) [1] was an American country music singer and Grand Ole Opry member notable for recording the David Allan Coe song "Take This Job and Shove It".
The ballad tells the first-person story of a hitchhiker's encounter with the ghost of Hank Williams in a ride from Montgomery, Alabama to Nashville, Tennessee. [1] The mysterious driver, "dressed like 1950, half drunk and hollow-eyed", questions the narrator whether he has the musical talent and dedication to become a star in the country music ...
Coe also became embroiled in a feud with pop star Jimmy Buffett, who accused Coe of plagiarising one of his songs. Coe often rubbed many of his peers the wrong way; according to Dan Beck, a Pittsburgh songwriter who was on the scene when Coe first came to Nashville, “In a way, we didn't necessarily take David that seriously. I remember ...
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.
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."
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Coe composed seven of the ten tracks on Family Album himself, one of the exceptions being "Whole Lot of Lonesome", a rare co-write with George Jones. Appropriately, it is a despairing song of heartache. Within the song, Coe mentions the name "Tammy" before singing one of the choruses, a nod to Jones's ex-wife Tammy Wynette.