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American singer and songwriter

David Allan Coe
Coe performing in March 2009

Coe performing in March 2009
Background information
Born September 6, 1939 (1939-09-06) (historic period82)
Akron, Ohio, U.S.
Genres
  • State
  • outlaw country
  • state stone
  • blues
  • blues rock[1]
  • Southern rock
Occupation(s)
  • Singer
  • songwriter
  • musician
Instruments
  • Vocals
  • electrical guitar
  • acoustic guitar
Years active 1967–present
Labels
  • Columbia
  • Plantation
  • Superlative Dog[2]
Associated acts
  • Confederate Railroad
  • Bob Wayne and the Outlaw Carnies
  • Johnny Greenbacks
  • Pantera
  • Warren Haynes
  • Steve Goodman
  • Willie Nelson
  • Waylon Jennings
  • George Jones
  • Johnny Paycheck

Musical artist

David Allan Coe (born September half dozen, 1939) is an American singer and songwriter.[3] [four] Coe took up music subsequently spending much of his early life in reform schools and prisons, and first became notable for busking in Nashville. He initially played mostly in the blues style, before transitioning to country music, condign a major part of the 1970s outlaw land scene. His biggest hits were "You Never Fifty-fifty Called Me by My Name", "Longhaired Redneck", "The Ride", "Mona Lisa Lost Her Smile", "She Used to Love Me a Lot", and most famously "If That Own't Country".

His most pop songs performed by others are the number-1 hits "Would Yous Lay With Me (In a Field of Rock)" sung by Tanya Tucker and Johnny Paycheck's rendition of "Take This Chore and Shove It". The latter inspired the movie of the aforementioned name. Coe's rebellious attitude, wild image, and anarchistic lifestyle set him apart from other land performers, both winning him legions of fans and hindering his mainstream success by alienating the music manufacture establishment. Coe continues to be a popular performer on the country music circuit.

Biography [edit]

Coe was born in Akron, Ohio.[5] His favorite vocalist as a child was Johnny Ace.[half-dozen] After existence sent to the Starr Democracy For Boys reform school at the age of nine, he spent much of the next twenty years in correctional facilities, including iii years at the Ohio Penitentiary. Coe claimed he received encouragement to begin writing songs from Screamin' Jay Hawkins, with whom he had spent time in prison.[7]

After concluding another prison term in 1967, Coe embarked on a music career in Nashville, living in a hearse which he parked in forepart of the Ryman Auditorium while he performed on the street. He caught the attention of Shelby Singleton, owner of the independent tape label Plantation Records and signed a contract with his characterization.[5]

He is the begetter of Tyler Mahan Coe, who created the country music podcast Cocaine & Rhinestones and the podcast Your Favorite Band Sucks. He has a girl, Shelli Coe Mackie, and is father-in-law to the late Michael Mackie, formerly of Texas band 'Thunderosa'.

Music career [edit]

Early on career (1970–1975) [edit]

Early on in 1970, Coe released his debut album, Penitentiary Blues, followed by a tour with Grand Funk Railroad.[5] In October 1971, he signed as an exclusive author with Pete and Rose Drake'southward publishing visitor Windows Publishing Company, Inc. in Nashville, Tennessee, where he remained until 1977. Although he adult a cult following with his performances, he was not able to develop any mainstream success, just other performers achieved charting success by recording songs Coe had written, including Billie Jo Spears' 1972 recordings "Souvenirs & California Mem'rys" and Tanya Tucker's 1973 single "Would You Lay With Me (In a Field of Rock)", which was a No. i striking and responsible for Coe becoming one of Nashville's hottest songwriters and Coe himself being signed by Columbia Records.[5] Coe recorded his own version of the song for his second Columbia anthology, Once Upon a Rhyme, released in 1975.[8] AllMusic author Thom Jurek said of the song, "The amazing affair is that both versions are definitive."[viii]

Unlike Coe's kickoff 2 albums, his third showed full commitment to country music, and Coe would play a role in the evolution of what would become known equally outlaw country. The title of Coe's 3rd anthology, The Mysterious Rhinestone Cowboy, refers to the gimmick Coe adopted several years before Glen Campbell had a hit with the song "Rhinestone Cowboy": dressing upward in a rhinestone suit and wearing a Lone Ranger mask. The vocaliser later recalled to Michael Buffalo Smith in 2004, "I approximate I take to blame it on Mel Tillis. I met him when I outset went to Nashville and he had an part downward on Music Row. I was over there talking to him in his office, and he opened upwardly the cupboard to get something and he had a whole cupboard full of rhinestone suits. I just freaked out on that. He looked at me and said 'You lot like that shit, I don't even wear those, if you want 'em take 'em!' He gave me those rhinestone suits and I wore them everywhere."[nine] Coe maintained the idea for the mask came from his father:

And then I got the mysterious rhinestone thing from my father. He asked me, 'You know the only way that The Lonely Ranger can become into town? I said, 'No, I don't know what you hateful.' He said that he has to take his mask off. I thought, what is my dad talking about and trying to tell me? He said, 'Well son, you have to wearable a mask and and then when yous don't desire to exist David Allan Coe, you tin accept your mask off and go anywhere and non be like Elvis with people messin' with you all the fourth dimension.'[ix]

Coe'due south 2nd album Once Upon a Rhyme contains one of his biggest hits, "You Never Even Chosen Me past My Proper name", written by Steve Goodman and John Prine and which first appeared on Goodman's 1971 debut release. Coe'south version became his commencement country Top 10 hit single, peaking at No. 8 in 1975, and includes a spoken epilogue where Coe relates a correspondence he had with Goodman, who stated the song he had written was the 'perfect land and western song'. Coe wrote back stating that no vocal could fit that description without mentioning a laundry list of clichés: "mama, or trains, or trucks, or prison, or getting drunk". Goodman'south equally facetious response was an additional verse that incorporated all five of Coe's requirements, and upon receiving information technology, Coe best-selling that the finished product was indeed the 'perfect country and western song' and included the concluding poetry on the tape:

I was drunk the mean solar day Mama got out of prison
And I went to pick 'er upwards in the rain
But before I could get to the station in my pickup truck
She got runned over by a damned ol' train

Coe was a featured performer in Heartworn Highways, a 1975 documentary movie by James Szalapski. Other performers featured included Guy Clark, Townes Van Zandt, Rodney Crowell, Steve Young, Steve Earle, and the Charlie Daniels Band. Coe also wrote "Cocaine Carolina" for Johnny Cash and sang background vocals on the recording that appeared on Greenbacks's 1975 anthology John R. Greenbacks.

Outlaw years (1976–1982) [edit]

By 1976, the outlaw country movement was in total swing as artists such as Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson were finally enjoying massive commercial success after years of fighting to tape their music their own mode. Coe, nevertheless, was still somewhat an outsider, nearly likewise outlaw for the outlaws, a predicament summed upward well by AllMusic:

His wild, long hair; multiple earrings; flashy, glitzy rhinestone suits; Harley Davidson biker boots; and football-sized belt buckles had become obstacles to getting people to take him seriously as a recording creative person. Other singers connected to record and succeed with his material, only the himself – who was every bit expert a vocaliser as well-nigh anyone and better than about – languished in obscurity. Rather than tone it down, Coe characteristically shoved the stereotypes in their faces. He retired the Mysterious Rhinestone Cowboy persona and billed his new album as 'David Allan Coe Rides Once more as the Longhaired Redneck', something equally off-putting to institution types.[10]

Longhaired Redneck was Coe's tertiary album for Columbia in iii years, and the first where he wrote or co-wrote all the songs; the outlaw country zeitgeist was summed up well in the championship runway, which recounts playing in a dive "where bikers stare at cowboys who are laughing at the hippies who are praying they'll get out of hither live". The song, which has an unmistakable rock swagger, features Coe performing impressive imitations of Ernest Tubb, Pecker Anderson, and Merle Haggard, making it irretrievably country likewise, illustrating the dichotomy of what was beingness referred to as 'progressive' country music. Coe later said, "Information technology was terminology that I'd fabricated up at the time. I was trying to tell people that not everybody with long pilus was a hippie. Non everyone was the kind of person that thought you could punch them out, take their money and that they'd say, 'I won't do nothin' about it'."[11]

By 1977, the outlaw movement was nearing its noon, having seen the release of Willie Nelson'due south blockbuster album Red Headed Stranger and country music's outset platinum selling album, Wanted! The Outlaws. Coe considered himself every bit integral as anyone in the evolution of the outlaw land genre, and began proverb then in his music. Every bit noted in AllMusic'south review of the anthology, "On Rides Again, by trying to make a witting outlaw record and aligning himself with the motility'south ii progenitors on the opening track, "Willie, Waylon, and Me"...Coe already set up cocky-parody unintentionally – something that connected to expletive him."[10] The songs on Rides Again cantankerous-fade without the usual silences betwixt tracks, which was unusual for country music, and feature Coe's heavily phased guitar. Coe was also permitted to use his own band on several tracks, a major concession for Columbia at the time. Even so, some of his peers resented Coe placing himself in such exalted company, and felt he was exploiting his relationship with his fellow outlaws.[12] Jennings drummer Richie Albright called Coe "a bully, dandy songwriter. A great singer. But he could not tell the truth if it was meliorate than a lie he'd fabricated up. Waylon didn't make him comfy plenty to hang around. Simply Willie did. I was effectually Willie quite a scrap and David Allan was with him eighty percentage of the fourth dimension. Willie immune him to hang effectually."[12] Coe managed to maintain friendships with both Jennings and Nelson, despite the old'south cool treatment of him at times. In his autobiography, Jennings mentions Coe once (in a chapter titled "The Outlaw Shit"), calling him "the almost sincere of the bunch"[13] of bandwagon jumpers, but contends "when it came to being an Outlaw, the worst matter he ever did was double-parking on Music Row",[thirteen] adding:

He wrote a song called "Waylon, Willie, and Me" at the same fourth dimension he started taking pot-shots at us in interviews, saying that Willie [Nelson] and Kris [Kristofferson] had sold out, that I was running around wearing white buck shoes, and none of us were really an Outlaw. He was the merely Outlaw in Nashville...I saw him in Fort Worth and I put my finger right upward to his breast. 'You gotta knock that shit off', I told him. 'I own't never done anything to yous.' He protested, 'They just set united states of america up...you know I dear y'all, Waylon."...he could bulldoze me crazy, but in that location was something about David that pulled at my heartstrings.[xiii]

Throughout the rest of the decade, Coe released a string of strong recordings, some of which, such as Homo Emotions (1978) and Spectrum VII (1979), were concept albums with each side of the discs given their own theme. 1978'south Family unit Album contains Coe'south rendition of "Take This Chore and Shove It", a vocal he composed and which had been released past Johnny Paycheck in Oct 1977, becoming a awe-inspiring success. The song is a get-go person account of a man who has worked for fifteen years with no apparent reward, and it struck a chord with the public, fifty-fifty inspiring a 1981 motion-picture show of the aforementioned proper noun. Although Coe'due south name was credited, the assumption by many was that Paycheck, an acclaimed songwriter himself, composed the tune; this would feed into Coe's growing bitterness with the industry every bit another i of his peers exploded in popularity. Coe was farther disenchanted when popular star Jimmy Buffett accused him of plagiarising his hit "Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes" for Coe'south "Defined Practice It Deeper". (Coe had been incorporating Caribbean sounds into his music, as is evident on his 1979 anthology Compass Point.) Past 1980, Coe and producer Billy Sherrill gear up out to reach a wider audience and bring Coe back to the charts past inviting other singers and musicians to accept function in the sessions for what would become I've Got Something to Say, which would boast contributions from Guy Clark, Bill Anderson, Dickey Betts (from The Allman Brothers Band), Kris Kristofferson, Larry Jon Wilson, and George Jones. This process was continued the following year on Invictus (Ways) Unconquered, with Sherrill couching the songs in tasteful instrumentation that put the spotlight squarely on Coe's voice. (In his AllMusic review, Thom Jurek labelled information technology 'arguably the finest album of his career')[ten]

Past 1981, the outlaw country movement waned as the slicker 'urban cowboy' era took hold in country music, typified by the Johnny Lee hit "Lookin' for Dear", which critic Kurt Wolff panned every bit an instance of 'watered-down cowboy music'.[14] Coe was an important figure in the outlaw country genre, just judging past the sound of his recordings from this period, he had no interest in the trendy urban cowboy stage. Refusing to give into the flavour-of-the-month generic land 'talent', Coe stuck to what he knew and sharpened the edges.[10] However, while scoring some moderate hits, mainstream success remained elusive. Coe'southward highest- charting single during this period was "Get a Footling Dirt on Your Hands", a duet with Bill Anderson, which peaked at No. 45. Every bit if enlightened of the compromises he had been making, Coe chose to close out his 1982 album D.A.C. with a suite of 3 songs that contained a short prologue:

Makin' records is, uh, somethin' that'due south kind of hard for me to practice because I'm an entertainer. So I made my mind upwardly a few albums agone that I was gonna do so many songs for the record visitor and so many for myself...nosotros've turned the lights down low in the studio and the musicians have thrown abroad their trivial cheat sheets. Then this is for all you David Allan Coe fans that's been with me for a long time who didn't actually care if I got played on the radio or not.

Commercial success (1983–1989) [edit]

Castles in the Sand would be a huge comeback for Coe, peaking at No. 8 on the state albums chart, his highest showing since One time Upon a Rhyme hit the same mark eight years earlier. Its success was spurred on by "The Ride", which was released in February 1983 every bit the lead single from the album and reached No. ane on the June iv Cashbox Country Singles Chart.[xv] It spent 19 weeks on the Billboard state singles charts, reaching a peak of No. 4 and hit No. 2 on the Canadian RPM Country Tracks nautical chart. The ballad tells the first-person story of a hitchhiker'southward encounter with the ghost of Hank Williams, Sr. in a ride from Montgomery, Alabama to Nashville, Tennessee.[sixteen] The mysterious driver, 'dressed similar 1950, half drunk and hollow-eyed', questions the narrator whether he has the musical talent and dedication to get a star in the country music manufacture. The song's lyrics place the events on U.S. Route 31 or the largely parallel Interstate 65. Buoyed by the single, Castles in the Sand became the mainstream quantum that Coe and producer Billy Sherrill had been trying for since the decade began. 1984'south Just Divorced contains Coe'southward second biggest chart hit, "Mona Lisa Lost Her Smile", which rose to No. 2 on the Billboard state singles nautical chart and No. 3 on Cashbox.[17] In Canada, information technology reached No. 1 on the RPM State Tracks charts dated for June 30, 1984.[eighteen] The song is a mid-tempo ballad about a young blonde girl, featuring allusions to the iconic Da Vinci painting. The song features ane of producer Billy Sherrill's most elaborate productions, with i critic commenting, 'The layered strings and organ work are slick, but they add such warmth and depth in contrast to Coe's voice that it works to devastating effect.'[10] Another track, "Missin' the Kid," finds a father lamenting the loss of his girl, who at present lives with his estranged ex-wife. Over a languid crush and using unproblematic language, Coe delivers a stunning song that expresses with weary resignation the bitterness, guilt, and farthermost sadness that comes with a broken family. Beginning with the line, "I nonetheless can't believe afterwards all of these years I still miss you,' the narrator wonders what his wife will tell their daughter when she asks well-nigh him, and finally declares:

I tell myself that information technology's best if I don't try to see her
Seeing her now could not brand upwards for all she's been through
Watching ii people she once called her mother and father
Acting like strangers, that'due south something I only could not exercise

In his AllMusic review of the album, writer Thom Jurek writes:

"Missin' the Kid" is a self-penned waltz that is sad and haunted, full of regret and remorse over the loss of his daughter when his second marriage broke up, something he never got over. Information technology's also ane of the most sensitive things he's ever written, as information technology is full of empathy for a daughter he hasn't seen in over x years.[10]

"She Used to Beloved Me a Lot", was released in Dec 1984 and peaked at No. 11 on both the U.s.a. Billboard Hot State Singles chart and the Canadian RPM Country Tracks nautical chart. (A version of the vocal past Johnny Cash was recorded in the early on 1980s, but remained unreleased until 2014.)[19] The song tells of a take a chance meeting between two ex-lovers at 'the Silverish Spoon Café', merely when the man tries to rekindle the romance, she dismisses him in the aforementioned cavalier way he did her years before. It was written by Dennis Morgan, Charles Quillen, and Kye Fleming, as Coe - who continued to write songs of high quality - yet relied on exterior writers to go him in the charts. The 1986 anthology Son of the S would include contributions from beau outlaw legends Nelson, Jennings, and Jessie Colter. His final recording for Columbia, the concept anthology A Thing of Life…and Death, was released in 1987.

Subsequently career (1990–nowadays) [edit]

In 1990, Coe reissued his independent albums Nothing Sacred and Underground Album on meaty disc, also as the compilation 18 X-Rated Hits.[twenty] Throughout the 1990s, Coe had a successful career as a concert performer in the United States and Europe.[5] 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, agreed to work together, and began product on an album.[seven] [21] In 2000, Coe toured equally the opening act for Kid Rock, and The New York Times published an article by journalist Neil Strauss, who described the material on Zippo Sacred and Underground Anthology equally "among the almost racist, misogynist, homophobic, and obscene songs recorded by a popular songwriter".[22] Coe maintains that he wrote to Strauss during the writing of the article, but the journalist did not acknowledge any interaction betwixt the ii, only stating that Coe'due south manager refused to speak on the record.[20] [22]

In 2003, Coe wrote a song for Kid Rock, "Unmarried Father", which appeared on Kid Rock'southward self-titled anthology, and was released as a unmarried, which peaked at number fifty on the Billboard Land Singles nautical chart.[23] [24] Rebel Meets Insubordinate, with Dimebag Darrell, Vinnie Paul, and Rex Brown, recorded sporadically between 1999 and 2003, was released in 2006, 2 years afterwards Darrell'due south murder.[vii] [21] AllMusic described it as a "groundbreaking" land metal anthology.[25]

In the 2006 video "God'due south Gonna Cutting You Down", Coe introduces Johnny Cash as the Homo in Black. The video, directed by Tony Kaye, was released in connectedness with Cash's comprehend of the song in American V: A Hundred Highways.

In 2017, he was featured singing "Have This Chore" on the album Baptized in Bourbon by the Moonshine Bandits. He too sings in the video.[26]

Outlaw origins and racism accusations [edit]

Coe'south integrity was called into question afterwards his previous merits that he had spent time on death row for killing an inmate who tried to rape him was debunked when a Texas documentarian discovered Coe had washed time for possessing burglary tools and indecent materials – but never murder.[12] Criticisms such every bit these notwithstanding, Coe always maintained he was integral to the outlaw country movement getting its name, stating in 2003:

…the truth is that Waylon and Willie Nelson and I played at an outdoor festival called "48 Hours in Atoka", in Oklahoma...when we got there...several women were raped and people stabbed! In that location was a lot of alcohol and drugs or whatever. I told my band, 'Don't worry about information technology. We'll provide our own protection.' At that time, I was in the Outlaws Motorcycle Gild. I had my Outlaws' colors on, I had my pistol in my pocket, and I rode my motorbike upwards on stage while Waylon was singing. I got off my motorcycle and went out and started singing with Waylon. And so Willie came out and sang with us. There was a moving-picture show of us in the paper that had an arrow pointing to the pistol in my pocket, and another pointer pointing to where information technology said, 'Outlaws, Florida.' The headline said, 'The Outlaws came to town.' That's actually how it all started.[11]

Coe was uncompromising when it came to his lifestyle and language, even though it kept him off country playlists and honor shows. For example, "The House We've Been Calling Abode", from the 1977 album Rides Once again, explores the theme of polygamy ('me and my wives have been spending our lives in a house we've been calling a home...'), while on the final cut on the anthology, "If That Ain't Land (I'll Kiss Your Ass)", Coe utters a racial slur on record for the first time, singing the line 'workin' similar a nigger for my room and board'. The vocal paints a film of a Texas family unit that verges on caricature, with the narrator describing his tattooed father equally 'veteran proud' and deeming his oldest sister 'a first-charge per unit whore'. The song further alienated Coe from the country mainstream and kick-started accusations that he was a racist, a charge he ever vehemently denied. In 2004 he remarked:

I am a songwriter, you lot know, and to me it has ever bothered me that actors in the movies can say whatever they want to say, impale people, rape people and do things and no one e'er accuses them personally of being that fashion. Simply when you write a vocal and then all of a sudden you are being accused of something. To me, songwriting is painting a pic and all you lot have to work with is words...I grew up with all my life hearing, 'lazy every bit a Mexican', 'stingy equally a Jew', 'working like a nigger', or 'dumb as a Polack'. It's stereotype stuff that yous hear growing up that immediately puts a picture in your head.[9]

The cover of the 1986 release Son of the South, which displayed Coe holding a baby with a Confederate flag draped over his shoulders, galled many industry insiders, although Coe did print a bulletin on the back of the album to defuse whatever potential backfire:

I was born in Akron, Ohio, and I moved to the Southward when I was in my early twenties, which made me a 'yankee' rebel son. I am not against anything or any identify or any nationalities. Regardless of what you've heard about me, there are two things I am very proud of. I of them is my son Tyler, who is my first born son. And the other is my personal human relationship with God. I am proud of that human relationship as I am proud that my son was conceived in Nashville, Tennessee and he is truly a son of the southward.

In another interview, Coe said, "Anyone that would look at me and say I was a racist, would have to exist out of their mind. I take dreadlocks downwardly to my waist with earrings in both ears and my bristles is down to my waist and information technology is in braids...I was in prison house with 87% black people, I hung effectually with black people, and I learned to sing music with black people. It was ironic that in prison the white guys called me a 'nigger lover' and now I write the word 'nigger' in a song and I am all suddenly a racist. It is pretty ironic."[9]

Underground albums [edit]

While Coe lived in Key West, Shel Silverstein played his comedy anthology Freakin' at the Freakers Ball for Coe, spurring him to perform his ain comedic songs for Silverstein, who encouraged Coe to record them, leading to the production of the independently released Zippo Sacred.[20] Jimmy Buffett defendant Coe of plagiarizing the tune of "Defined Exercise It Deeper" from Buffett'southward "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 newspaper."[27] In response to the success of Buffett'southward song, Coe wrote a song insulting Buffett, and it appeared on Nothing Sacred.[27] The album was released by mail order in 1978, through the dorsum pages of the biker magazine Easyriders.[20]

Coe's 1979 Columbia anthology Spectrum 7 contained a note stating "Jimmy Buffett does non live in Key Westward anymore", a lyric from a vocal from Null Sacred.[27] The album's anthology are profane, often sexually explicit, and describe an orgy in Nashville's Centennial Park and sex with pornographic film star Linda Lovelace. The album as well contains a song targeting Anita Bryant, a musician notable for her strong opposition to LGBT rights, specifically her fight to repeal an LGBT anti-discrimination ordinance in Miami-Dade Canton. In the vocal, bluntly titled "Fuck Aneta Briant" [sic], Coe calls out Bryant as being hypocritical for her opposition to the lifestyles of gay people, stating that "In fact Anita Bryant, some act only like you".[27] [28]

In 1982, Coe released some other independent album, Underground Album, which contained his nigh controversial song, "Nigger Fucker". Written from the perspective of a man whose lover left him for an African American man, the sexually explicit vocal resulted in Coe beingness accused of racism.[28] [29] Primarily because of this song, the textile recorded by vocaliser and white supremacist Johnny Insubordinate is mistakenly attributed to Coe. (Insubordinate, whose real name is Clifford Joseph Trahan, died in 2016.) AllMusic, which did not review Undercover Anthology, gave it iii out of 5 stars.[30] Coe responded to the accusations by maxim "Anyone that hears this album and says I'k a racist, is full of shit."[7] Coe's drummer, Kerry Brown, is black and married to a white woman. Dark-brown is the son of legendary blues musician Clarence "Gatemouth" Dark-brown. When asked about Coe'due south X-rated albums, Brownish stated "David Allan Coe was controversial. Some of the songs are actually out there. But information technology's my life. When you lot live in the David Allan Coe world, you lot acquire to be controversial.[31]

Bankruptcy [edit]

Like Willie Nelson and Jerry Lee Lewis, Coe has battled the IRS costing him the publishing rights to his compositions, including "Take This Chore and Shove It". He stated in 2003:

All of my songs up to 1984 were sold in a defalcation proceeding for, like, $25,000 from the bankruptcy court, because nobody told me they'd been put up for sale! Basically the IRS claimed I owed them $100,000. I was living at a place and nosotros had a flood and everything was destroyed. They knew I didn't have any records – any proof of what I did have and what I didn't have. So I just filed [for] bankruptcy. [Willie] Nelson chose to bargain with them. I chose not to. I'm totally straight with them now. The only income I have is the money I make on the road performing and from my new songs that I own.[32]

In another interview, Coe added, "All the songs on the X-rated albums were sold. I don't own that stuff anymore. I have nothing to exercise with that stuff. They take to give me credit every bit the songwriter, but I don't brand one cent."[33]

Style [edit]

Coe's musical mode derives from blues, rock, and country music traditions.[5] Information technology has been described every bit encompassing honky tonk country and blues rock.[1] His vocal mode is described as a 'throaty baritone'.[1] His lyrical content is ofttimes humorous or comedic, with William Ruhlmann describing him as a 'near-parody of a country singer'.[34] Stephen Thomas Erlewine describes Coe as "a great, unashamed state vocalizer, singing the purest honky-tonk and hardest country of his era […] he may not exist the most original outlaw, only there is none more outlaw than him".[35]

Coe'south lyrics oft include references to alcohol and drug employ, and are often boisterous and cocky.[25] Coe's debut album Penitentiary Dejection was described equally "voodoo dejection" and "redneck music" by Allmusic'south Thom Jurek.[36] It focused on themes such every bit working for the first time, blood tests from veins used to inject heroin, prison house time, hoodoo imagery, and death.[36] The album'southward influences included Charlie Rich, Jerry Lee Lewis, Bo Diddley, Lightnin' Hopkins, and Tony Joe White.[36] Coe later explained to Kristofer Engelhardt of Review: "I didn't really intendance for some of the country music until people like Kris Kristofferson and some of those people started writing songs. They had a little more to say than but, 'Oh baby I miss you', or any. I don't exercise anything halfway. Once I got into land music, I went back and researched it, and learned everything there was to know well-nigh information technology. I could do impersonations of Roy Acuff, Ernest Tubb, Hank Snowfall, Marty Robbins, just about anybody. I knew just about all there was to know most country music."[11]

Coe's offset land album, The Mysterious Rhinestone Cowboy, has been described equally alt-country, 'pre-punk' and "a hillbilly version of Marc Bolan'southward glitz and glitter".[x] Credited influences on the album include Merle Haggard.[x] 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.[5] Coe has also performed in a rhinestone adjust and a mask which resembled that of the Alone Ranger, calling himself the 'Mysterious Rhinestone Cowboy'.[5]

The album Rebel Meets Insubordinate featured a vocal, "Cherokee Cry", which criticizes the U.s.a. government'south handling of Native Americans.[25] When asked why he did not write more political songs, Coe replied, "I live in my own world, non thee world. I just write songs about what affects me in everyday life. At one signal I wrote a song that was sort of a protest about when they were talking nearly drafting women into the military. It was almost my son making it by the draft, but my daughter didn't. And I've done Farm Aid."[eleven]

In his review of Coe's 1987 album A Thing of Life...and Expiry, Allmusic's Thom Jurek wrote, "Coe may have had some hits, simply information technology is records similar this that make one wonder if at that place was not a conspiracy to marginalize him and make him neglect. Coe is a bright songwriter well into the 21st century, and deserves to be lauded along with the likes of [Willie] Nelson and [Waylon] Jennings and Kristofferson and Newbury – and even Greenbacks."[10]

Discography [edit]

Bibliography [edit]

  • But for the Record... the Autobiography
  • The Book of David
  • Ex-Convict
  • Poems, Prose and Short Stories
  • Psychopath
  • Whoopsy Daisy (audio book)

References [edit]

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