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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 .
The first album released on Coe's own label, DAC Records. So far it has not been reissued in any modern format. [7] Nothing Sacred. Label: DAC (#0002) Format: LP, CD — Coe's fourth independent album, noted for its profane and sexually explicit lyrics. It was originally released by mail order and also sold at concerts, but is now available via ...
A Matter of Life…and Death would be Coe’s final album for Columbia, a partnership that stretched back to 1974 and produced 21 studio albums. Coe and longtime producer Billy Sherrill enjoyed their biggest commercial success together in the 1980s with Top 5 singles “The Ride” and “Mona Lisa Lost Her Smile," but by the end of the decade a new generation of country singers were ...
Unlike Coe’s first two albums, his third showed full commitment to country music, and Coe would play a part in the evolution of what would become known as outlaw country. The Mysterious Rhinestone Cowboy was produced by Rod Bledsoe and boasted a coterie of Nashville’s top session musicians, including steel player Pete Drake , pianist Hargus ...
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".
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 songwriters used to go see him play someplace, and he'd play somebody else's songs and say he wrote it!
Here's where Allan is now. Allan Gore pursued an affair with Candace "Candy" Montgomery, which eventually led to the murder of his wife, Betty Gore in 1980. Here's where Allan is now.
Then the camera man, sound recorder and director join David Allan Coe and film him playing a gig at the Tennessee State Prison where he admits to being a former inmate and tells a story of being there and seems to bring out friends of his onto the stage who still are inmates there and they perform a gospel number "Thank You Jesus" that they ...