Artist: David Allan Coe
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Other
Discography:
Penitentiary Blues
Year: 1969
Tracks: 11
17 Greatest Hits
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Tracks: 17
A lifelong deserter, singer/songwriter David Allan Coe was one of the most colorful and irregular characters in country music history. One of the pioneering artists of the illicit country movement of the '70s, he didn't hold many heavy hits -- only if trinity of his singles hit the Top Ten -- simply he was among the biggest cult figures in country music passim his career.
Born in Akron, OH, Coe kickoff got into trouble with the law at age baseball club. As a resultant, he was sent to reform school. For the next 20 days, he never played out more than a handful of months out-of-door of a correctional facility -- he spent a great deal of his mid-twenties in the Ohio State Penitentiary. Released from prison in 1967, the wild-haired, earring-wearing, heavy tattooed Coe went straight for Nashville, where he lived in a hearse that he parked in figurehead of the old Ryman Auditorium, the place of the Grand Ole Opry. Although he didn't adapt to Nashville's professional standards, he soon gained the attention of the sovereign label Plantation Records, which released his debut album, Penitentiary Blues, in 1968. Followed within a year by a second intensity, all of the songs on these albums were based on his prison experiences.
Coe so toured with Grand Funk Railroad, a Soon, he began playing in a rhinestone suit disposed to him by Mel Tillis, as well as a Lone Ranger block out, and began vocation himself the "Masked Rhinestone Cowboy." Coe's concerts became notorious for their capriciousness -- ofttimes he would howl up onstage astride his enormous Harley, swearing at the audience. He cultivated a large religious cult next with his roleplay, only he couldn't break into the mainstream. However, other artists establish success with his songs -- in 1972, Billie Jo Spears had a pocket-sized bump off with his "Souvenirs & California Mem'rys," and in 1973, Tanya Tucker had a number one hit with Coe's "Would You Lay With Me (In a Field of Stone)." After Tucker's attain, Coe of a sudden became one of Nashville's hottest songwriters; some of the biggest area artists -- including Willie Nelson, George Jones, and Tammy Wynette -- recorded his tunes, leading to his possess contract with Columbia Records.
Coe's first deuce singles for Columbia didn't do close to the area Top 40, merely his 1975 cover of Steve Goodman's "You Never Even Called Me by My Name" roughened the Top Ten. Although a strand of moderate hits followed, he rarely nuts the area Top 40, although in 1977 Johnny Paycheck took Coe's "Adopt This Job and Shove It" to number matchless. During his 13-year tie-up with Columbia, Coe released 26 albums, including the double-album set For the Record: The First 10 Years (1984), 1986's Boy of the South (featuring Willie, Waylon, Jessi Colter, and other "outlaws"), and the highly regarded A Matter of Life and Death (1987).
Although Coe had a successful life history, it was one plagued with many setbacks. The conservative Nashville euphony manufacture often snubbed him and he had tax problems with the IRS; at one time, they seized his Key West home, and he went to live in a Tennessee undermine until he got back on his feet. Toward the end of the '80s, Coe remarried and began to settle down. Throughout the '90s, he was a popular concert draw in America and Europe. In addition to his melodious calling, he also acted in a few movies, including The Last Days of Frank and Jesse James. He also published a novel, Psychopath, and an autobiography. The LP Recommended for Airplay was issued in 1999. The unexampled millennium saw the exit of Long Haired Country Boy in 2000; Ballad maker of the Tear appeared on Cleveland the undermentioned year.
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