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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".
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."
One of the most impressive songs Coe ever wrote is “Missin’ the Kid,” which finds a father lamenting the loss of his daughter, who now lives with his estranged ex-wife. Over a languid beat and using simple language, Coe delivers a stunning vocal that expresses with weary resignation the bitterness, guilt, and extreme sadness that comes ...
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."
Coe joined Jones onstage at the inaugural Farm Aid that year, taking a chorus with Jones on his hit "Tennessee Whiskey", which Coe recorded first in 1981. Uncharacteristically, Coe only contributes two original songs to the set, the gospel song "Mary Go Round (About the Birth of Jesus)" and "For Lovers Only", the fourth and final in a series of ...
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.
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 — —