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Infobox musical artist | name = David Allan Coe| image = David Allen Coe.jpg| caption = Coe performing in March, 2009| image_size =| background = solo_singer| birth_name = David Alan Coe| alias =| birth_date = Birth date and age|1939|9|6| origin = Akron, Ohio | instrument = Singer|Vocals Guitar | genre = Country music|Country | occupation = Musician , Songwriter , Actor | years_active = 1956–present| label = Columbia Records|Columbia , D.A.C., Plantation Records|Plantation | associated_acts = Confederate Railroad , Bob Wayne and the Outlaw Carnies David Allan Coe (born September 6, 1939) is an American outlaw country music singer who achieved popularity in the 1970s and 1980s. As a singer, his biggest hits were " Mona Lisa Lost Her Smile ," " The Ride (song)|The Ride ," " You Never Even Called Me by My Name ," " She Used to Love Me a Lot ," and " Longhaired Redneck (song)|Longhaired Redneck ." His best-known compositions are the #1 successes " Would You Lay with Me (In a Field of Stone) (song)|Would You Lay With Me (In a Field of Stone) ," which was covered by Tanya Tucker ; and " Take This Job and Shove It ," which was later covered by Johnny Paycheck that was later a hit movie (both Coe and Paycheck had minor parts in the film).
Biography
Coe was born in Akron, Ohio on September 6, 1939. His favorite singer as a child was Johnny Ace .cite web |url= http://www.spinner.com/2010/01/15/twisted-tales-david-allan-coe-takes-the-outlaw-country-lifestyl/ |title=Twisted Tales: David Allan Coe Takes the Outlaw Country Lifestyle to the Extreme |author=James Sullivan |date=Jan 15th 2010 |work= |publisher=Spinner |accessdate=21 August 2011 After being sent to a reform school at the age of 9, he spent much of the next 20 years in correctional facilities. Coe received encouragement to begin writing songs from Screamin' Jay Hawkins , with whom he had spent time in prison. Coe was treated poorly by racist inmates because he was friends with African American prisoners. After concluding another prison term in 1967, Coe embarked on a music career in Nashville, living in a hearse which he parked in front of the Ryman Auditorium, where the Grand Ole Opry was located, and caught the attention of the independent record label Plantation Records , and signed a contract with the label.cite book |last1= |first1= |authorlink1= |last2= |first2= |authorlink2= |coauthors=Sandra Brennan |editor1-first= |editor1-last= |editor1-link= |others=Michael Erlewine |title=All Music Guide to Country |trans_title= |url= |archiveurl= |archivedate= |format= |accessdate= |type= |edition= |series= |volume= |date= |year= |month= |origyear= |publisher= |location= |language= |isbn=0879304758 |oclc= |doi= |id= |page= |pages=95–96 |at= |trans_chapter= |chapter= |chapterurl= |quote= |ref= |bibcode= |laysummary= |laydate= |separator= |postscript= |lastauthoramp=
After the Internal Revenue Service seized his home in Key West, Florida , Coe lived in a cave in Tennessee, and later remarried and got back on his feet.
Music career
Early career
In 1968, Coe released his debut album, Penitentiary Blues , followed by a tour with Grand Funk Railroad . Although he developed a cult following with his performances, he was not able to develop any mainstream success, but other performers achieved charting success by recording songs Coe had written, including Billie Jo Spears ' 1972 recording "Souvenirs & California Mem'rys" and Tanya Tucker 's 1973 single "Would You Lay With Me (In a Field of Stone)," which was a number one hit, and responsible for Coe becoming one of Nashville's hottest songwriters and Coe himself being signed by Columbia Records . Coe recorded his own version of the song for his second Columbia album, Once Upon a Rhyme , released in 1975. Allmusic writer Thom Jurek said of the song, "The amazing thing is that both versions are definitive."cite web |url= http://www.allmusic.com/album/once-upon-a-rhyme-r105958/review |title=Once Upon a Rhyme - David Allan Coe |author= |date= |work= |publisher=Allmusic |accessdate=6 September 2011 The album also contained a cover of Steve Goodman 's " You Never Even Called Me by My Name ," which was a Top Ten Billboard (magazine)|Billboard hit, and was followed by a string of moderately successful hits.
Coe was a featured performer in Heartworn Highways , a 1975 documentary film by James Szalapski . Other performers featured in this film included Guy Clark , Townes Van Zandt , Rodney Crowell , Steve Young (musician)|Steve Young , Steve Earle , and The Charlie Daniels Band. In 1977 Johnny Paycheck released a cover of Coe's " Take This Job And Shove It ," which was a number one hit and Coe's most successful song.
Underground albums
While Coe lived in Key West, Shel Silverstein played his comedy album '' Freakin' at the Freakers Ball for Coe, spurring him to perform his own comedic songs for Silverstein, who encouraged Coe to record them, leading to the production of the independently released Nothing Sacred (David Allan Coe album)|Nothing Sacred ''. Jimmy Buffett accused Coe of plagiarizing the melody of "Divers Do It Deeper" from Buffett's "Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes," stating "I would have sued him, but I didn't want to give Coe the pleasure of having his name in the paper."cite book |last1= |first1= |authorlink1= |last2= |first2= |authorlink2= |coauthors=Steve Eng |editor1-first= |editor1-last= |editor1-link= |others= |title=Jimmy Buffett: The Man from Margaritaville Revealed |trans_title= |url= |archiveurl= |archivedate= |format= |accessdate= |type= |edition= |series= |volume= |date= |year= |month= |origyear= |publisher= |location= |language= |isbn=0312168756 |oclc= |doi= |id= |page=217 |pages= |at= |trans_chapter= |chapter=Hello, Textas--Hello, St. Barts (and Montserrat) |chapterurl= |quote= |ref= |bibcode= |laysummary= |laydate= |separator= |postscript= |lastauthoramp= In response to the success of Buffett's song, Coe wrote a song insulting Buffet, and it appeared on Nothing Sacred . The album was released by mail order in 1978, through the back pages of the biker magazine Easyriders .cite web |url= http://www.countrystandardtime.com/d/article.asp? xid=360 |title=David Allan Coe rebuts racism charge |author=Tom Netherland |date=November 2000 |work= |publisher=Country Standard Time |accessdate=21 August 2011 Coe's 1979 Columbia album Spectrum VII contained a note stating "Jimmy Buffett doesn't live in Key West anymore," a lyric from a song from Nothing Sacred .
In 1982, Coe released another independent album, Underground Album , which contained his most controversial song, "Nigger Fucker," which resulted in Coe being accused of racism.cite book |last1= |first1= |authorlink1= |last2= |first2= |authorlink2= |coauthors=Mark Kemp |editor1-first= |editor1-last= |editor1-link= |others= |title=Dixie Lullaby: A Story of Music, Race, and New Beginnings in a New South |trans_title= |url= |archiveurl= |archivedate= |format= |accessdate= |type= |edition= |series= |volume= |date= |year= |month= |origyear= |publisher= |location= |language= |isbn=0820328723 |oclc= |doi= |id= |page=204 |pages= |at= |trans_chapter= |chapter= |chapterurl= |quote= |ref= |bibcode= |laysummary= |laydate= |separator= |postscript= |lastauthoramp= Coe responded to the accusations by stating "Anyone that hears this album and says I'm a racist is full of shit." Coe's drummer at the time, Kerry Brown, is African American and married to a white woman, as is Brown's father, Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown .
Later career
During the 1980s, Coe enjoyed a resurgence in mainstream popularity, twice hitting the top 10 of the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart with " The Ride (song)|The Ride " (1983) and " Mona Lisa Lost Her Smile " (1984). "The Ride" recounts a drifter's encounter with the ghost of country music legend Hank Williams . "Mona Lisa" is a mid-tempo ballad about a broken love affair, featuring allusions to the Mona Lisa|iconic Da Vinci painting . He also just missed the top 10 in early 1985 with " She Used to Love Me a Lot ."
In 1990, Coe reissued his independent albums Nothing Sacred and Underground Album on compact disc , as well as the compilation 18 X-Rated Hits . Throughout the 1990s, Coe had a successful career as a concert performer in the United States and Europe. In 1999, Coe met Pantera guitarist Dimebag Darrell in Fort Worth, Texas , and the two musicians, struck by the similarity of the approaches between country and heavy metal music|heavy metal , agreed to work together, and began production on an album.
In 2000, Coe toured as the opening act for Kid Rock , and The New York Times published an article by journalist Neil Strauss , who described the material on Nothing Sacred and Underground Album as "among the most racist, misogynist, homophobic and obscene songs recorded by a popular songwriter."cite web |url= http://www.nytimes.com/2000/09/04/arts/songwriter-s-racist-songs-from-1980-s-haunt-him.html |title=Songwriter's Racist Songs From 1980's Haunt Him |author=Neil Strauss |date=September 4, 2000 |work= |publisher= The New York Times |accessdate=21 August 2011 During the writing of the article, Coe contacted Strauss, but Strauss did not acknowledge any interaction between the two in his article, which only stated that Coe's manager refused to speak on the record.
In 2003, Coe wrote a song for Kid Rock, "Single Father," which appeared on Kid Rock's Kid Rock (album)|self-titled album , and was released as a single, which peaked at #50 on the Billboard (magazine)|Billboard Billboard charts|Country Singles chart .cite web |url= http://www.allmusic.com/album/kid-rock-r663144/charts-awards/billboard-single |title=Kid Rock - Kid Rock - Billboard Singles |date=5 October 2011 |publisher=AllMusic cite news |title=Are ya ready for some country? So's the Kid |author= |url= http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives? p_product=ADSB& s_site=azstarnet& f_site=azstarnet& f_sitename=Arizona+Daily+Star%2C+The+%28AZ%29& p_multi=ADSB& p_theme=gannett& p_action=search& p_maxdocs=200& p_topdoc=1& p_text_direct-0=10603E0CE24CF87B& p_field_direct-0=document_id& p_perpage=10& p_sort=YMD_date:D& s_trackval=GooglePM |newspaper= Arizona Daily Star |date=October 7, 2004 |accessdate=5 October 2011 |quote=the miseries of single parenting on the Coe-copenned "Single Father."Rebel Meets Rebel , with Dimebag Darrell, Vinnie Paul and Rex Brown , recorded sporadically between 1999 and 2003, was released in 2006, two years after Dimebag Darrel's murder.cite web |url= http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/coe-revisits-penitentiary-20050714 |title=Coe Revisits Penitentiary |author=Dan Leroy |date=July 14, 2005 |work= |publisher= Rolling Stone |accessdate=21 August 2011cite web |url= http://www.allmusic.com/artist/rebel-meets-rebel-p771849/biography |title=Rebel Meets Rebel | AllMusic |author=Steve Leggett |date= |work= |publisher= |accessdate=21 August 2011 Allmusic described it as a "groundbreaking" country rock|country metal album.
Style
Coe's musical style derives from blues , rock music|rock and country music traditions.cite web |url= http://www.allmusic.com/album/recommended-for-airplay-r400746/review |title= Recommended for Airplay - David Allan Coe |author=William Ruhlmann |date= |work= |publisher=AllMusic |accessdate=21 August 2011 His vocal style is described as a "throaty baritone." His lyrical content is often humorous or comedic, with William Ruhlmann describing him as a "near-parody of a country singer."cite web |url= http://allmusic.com/album/super-hits-vol-2-r235027/review |title= Super Hits, Vol. 2 |author=William Ruhlmann |date= |work= |publisher=AllMusic |accessdate=21 August 2011 Stephen Thomas Erlewine describes Coe as "a great, unashamed country singer, singing the purest honky-tonk and hardest country of his era ... He may not be the most original Outlaw country|outlaw , but there's none more outlaw than him."cite web |url= http://www.allmusic.com/album/for-the-record-the-first-10-years-r92049/review |title=For the Record: The First 10 Years |author=Stephen Thomas Erlewine |date= |work= |publisher=AllMusic |accessdate=21 August 2011
Coe's lyrics frequently include references to alcohol and drug use, and are often boisterous and cocky.cite web |url= http://www.allmusic.com/album/rebel-meets-rebel-r828723/review |title=Rebel Meets Rebel - AllMusic |author=Megan Frye |date= |work= |publisher= |accessdate=21 August 2011 Coe's debut album, Penitentiary Blues was described as " Louisiana Voodoo|voodoo blues " and " redneck music" by Allmusic's Thom Jurek.cite web |url= http://www.allmusic.com/album/penitentiary-blues-r92039/review |title=Penitentiary Blues - David Allan Coe |author=Thom Jurek |date= |work= |publisher=Allmusic |accessdate=6 September 2011 It focused on themes such as working for the first time, blood test s from veins used to inject heroin , prison time, Hoodoo (folk magic)|hoodoo imagery and death. The album's influences included Charlie Rich , Jerry Lee Lewis , Bo Diddley , Lightnin' Hopkins , and Tony Joe White .
Coe's first country album, The Mysterious Rhinestone Cowboy , has been described as alternative country|alt-country , " Protopunk|pre-punk " and "a hillbilly version of Marc Bolan 's glitz and glitter." Credited influences on the album include Merle Haggard .cite web |url= http://www.allmusic.com/album/the-mysterious-rhinestone-cowboy-r637930/review |title=The Mysterious Rhinestone Cowboy - David Allan Coe |author=Thom Jurek |date= |work= |publisher=Allmusic |accessdate=6 September 2011
Coe's albums Nothing Sacred and Underground Album contained profane, sexually explicit material, including songs making reference to an orgy in Nashville's Centennial Park, sex with pornographic film star Linda Lovelace and insults directed at Jimmy Buffett and Anita Bryant .cite book |last1= |first1= |authorlink1= |last2= |first2= |authorlink2= |coauthors= |editor1-first= |editor1-last= |editor1-link= |others=Christopher Washburne, Maiken Derno |title=Bad music: the music we love to hate |trans_title= |url= |archiveurl= |archivedate= |format= |accessdate= |type= |edition= |series= |volume= |date= |year= |month= |origyear= |publisher= |location= |language= |isbn=0415943663 |oclc= |doi= |id= |page=37 |pages= |at= |trans_chapter= |chapter=White trash alchemies of the abject sublime |chapterurl= |quote= |ref= |bibcode= |laysummary= |laydate= |separator= |postscript= |lastauthoramp= The album Rebel Meets Rebel featured an Anti-racism|anti-racist song, "Cherokee Cry," which criticizes the United States government's treatment of Native Americans in the United States|Native Americans .
In his early career, Coe was known for his unpredictable live performances, in which he would ride a Harley-Davidson motorcycle onto the stage and curse at his audience. Coe has also performed in a rhinestone suit and a mask which resembled that of The Lone Ranger , calling himself the "Masked Rhinestone Cowboy."
Discography
Main|David Allan Coe discography
Bibliography
Just For The Record...the Autobiography
The Book of David
Ex-Convict
Poems, Prose and Short Stories
Psychopath
Whoopsy Daisy (audio book)
References
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cite web |url= http://www.allmusic.com/artist/david-allan-coe-p1560/charts-awards/billboard-singles/peak_pos-asc |title=David Allan Coe |author= |date= |work= |publisher=AllMusic |accessdate=21 August 2011
Tucker, Stephen R. (1998). "David Allan Coe." In The Encyclopedia of Country Music . Paul Kingsbury, Editor. New York: Oxford University Press. p.& nbsp;102.
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External links
http://www.facebook.com/pages/David-Allan-Coe-com/157278361006255 DAC On Facebook
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