Please school me on DAVID ALLAN COE
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Somebody described him to me as the outlaw of country music that Johnny Cash always pretended to be. I know next to nothing about this guy. Can give me some information about him and tell what song i should check out?thanks in advance!
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However.....
He is also known for 3 "Underground" LP's that were sold at Biker Rallies....they are more rock than country and are X-Rated and racist as hell.....some of the nastiest stuff ever recorded. I'm certain that sound clips would not be welcome here(or most places).
More recently he's gotten some shine from Kid Rock.
I think he wrote or sang, Up Against The Wall Redneck Mothers, which was a big anthem when I lived in Oklahoma.
You Never Even Call Me By My Name Was Steve Goodman's attempt to write the perfect country song:
DAC Rejected it as the perfect country song forcing Goodman to add a verse:
Bottom line, Coe is good, no better than Jerry Jeff Walker or a bunch of other guys who rode the outlaw country wave.
Pick up his records when you see them.
I think his 'Greatest Hits' has the essential anthem 'D-R-U-N-K', as in, "How do you spell relief? I get D-R-U-N-K".
Once you get over the fringe, country-Outlaw image, it's just good solid country stuff, as Wolf points out. Johnny Paycheck, Waylon, Merle Haggard and others were all doing equally entertaining gritty country stuff at points in their careers that matches or exceeds DAC.
I think I would rather spend my country music dollar on
those who didn't make a series of explicit and intentionally
racist albums.
The wiki page is a good read.
Says he is not Johnny Rebel.
Says he spent a lot of time in jail, but they cast doubt on his claim that he killed a man and was on death row.
I always picks up Louis Farakkahn lps too.
But I never pick up Nazi lps and wouldn't pick up Coe's racists records.
I do occasionally pick up records by racists xian preachers, or kkk/John Birch Society records. But I don't like having them around and dump them as quick as possible.
But DAC was not an active hate monger.
He made deliberately over the top offensive records that ironically were embraced by the people he was laughing at.
My contributions can be seen under the pen name "JP."
The record guide was back-ended to an interview that me, Bosco (no last name), and Jake Austen did with Coe backstage at the House of Blues. While he graciously told all about his past, a porno movie played silently on the overhead TV...
he's imo
that sweater vest alone....! i don't think anyone was quite ready
Not to mention the gold-top glissando.
Hey! you called me a non-country fan/fratboy in one of your reviews.
In the words of Ray Charles,"What'd I Say?"