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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 .
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 ...
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 — —
David Allan Coe. Released: 1985: Recorded: 1974–1978, 1980–1985: Genre: Country: Label: Columbia Nashville: 17 Greatest Hits is a compilation album by artist ...
Coe’s version became his first country Top 10 hit single, peaking at #8 in 1975, and includes a spoken epilogue where Coe relates a correspondence he had with songwriter Steve Goodman, who stated the song he had written was the "perfect country and western song."
Hello in There reached #38 on the country albums chart. AllMusic: “Once more there is evidence that Coe's entire period with Columbia and his partnership with Billy Sherrill resulted in consistently high-level work despite the fact that Nashville was changing around him and his trademark brand of restless yet utterly faithful country music was being squeezed from the picture”.
The lyrics of Penitentiary Blues are often dark and foreshadow the content of Coe's later country albums, discussing themes such as working for the first time, blood tests from veins used to inject heroin, prison time, hoodoo imagery and death.
All songs written by David Allan Coe except as indicated. ”Cheap Thrills” ”Son of a Rebel Son” ”Fool Inside of Me” (with Diane Sherrill) ”Castles in the Sand” ”Gotta Serve Somebody” (with Lacy J. Dalton) (Bob Dylan) ”The Ride” (Gary Gentry/John Blayne Detterline, Jr.) ”I Can’t Let You Be a Memory” (Warren Haynes)