Albums by David Allan Coe
ALBUMLiving On the EdgeDavid Allan Coe
ALBUMThese DaysDavid Allan Coe
ALBUMBranded ManDavid Allan Coe
ALBUMDavid Allan Coe Sings Johnny Cash's Biggest HitsDavid Allan Coe
ALBUMWhoopsy DaisyDavid Allan Coe
ALBUMDavid Allan Coe Sings Merle HaggardDavid Allan Coe
ALBUMAt His BestDavid Allan Coe
ALBUMCountry & WesternDavid Allan Coe
ALBUMRecommended for AirplayDavid Allan Coe
ALBUMDavid Allan Coe Live: If That Ain't Country...David Allan Coe
David Allan Coe's Popular Music Videos
Take This Job (feat. David Allan Coe)
Moonshine Bandits
Tanya Montana
David Allan Coe
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David Allan Coe Essentials
Nobody embraced outlaw country with more gusto than him.
Artist Biography
Growing up, singer-songwriter David Allan Coe loved listening to his mother’s big band records, but he also gravitated toward the blues of Muddy Waters and Howlin’ Wolf as well as early R&B stars Hank Ballard & The Midnighters.
∙ Coe spent most of his teens and twenties bouncing between several Ohio reformatories and prisons.
∙ When he moved to Nashville to pursue a music career, he lived in a Cadillac hearse that he would park in front of the Ryman Auditorium on Saturday nights, when the Grand Ole Opry aired.
∙ Coe released his first album, Penitentiary Blues, in 1970 and later became a pioneer of the decade’s “outlaw country” music scene.
∙ In the early ’70s, Coe billed himself as The Mysterious Rhinestone Cowboy, since he liked to wear a Lone Ranger mask and rhinestone-studded suits given to him by Mel Tillis.
∙ His first big break came in 1975 when Tanya Tucker had a No. 1 Country hit with his song “Would You Lay With Me (In a Field of Stone),” and Coe’s “Take This Job and Shove It,” was a No. 1 hit for Johnny Paycheck in 1977.
∙ A prolific songwriter, over the course of his career Coe composed thousands of songs that have been covered by such artists as Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash, Dead Kennedys and Kid Rock.
∙ Coe was discovered by a new generation of fans in the 2000s when he recorded Rebel Meets Rebel with members of Pantera and toured with Kid Rock.
Hometown
Akron, OH, United States
Genre
Country