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September 06, 2002
Real outlaw country David Allan Coe was born September 6, 1939. Happy 63rd birthday!!!
Coe has written numerous hit country songs. His biggest hit has probably been "Take This Job and Shove It." That's a decent novelty song, but his best mainstream song was probably the rock hard sentimentality of "Would You Lay with Me in a Field of Stone." Tanya Tucker had the biggest hit, but look up the Johnny Cash version.
Perhaps more interesting, Mr. Coe really put the "outlaw" into outlaw country. He did this not so much by serving hard prison time in his youth -any retard can do that- but by the scandalous records he made with no thought of ever being able to put them into record stores. Thirty plus years ago, before there was a world wide web and alternate distribution and such, he was writing really and truly controversial and "offensive" material that you couldn't even acknowledge in decent company -to this day. Heck, he won't even list most of these titles on his own website. Apparently many of the songs aren't even registered at BMI. The sexual and especially racial themes drew out his best hook writing though, and he animated the recordings with great outlaw gusto.
The catchiest and most infamous of these (not even the name of which can be printed in a decent family publication such as this) tells the comic angst of wounded pride of a white boy with, uhm, yolk on his face after his woman has left him for a black man. It's just wrong, ok? Though somewhat less infamous, those who know also favor "Nothing Sacred," the tale of a preacher with personal issues.
Don't even think about looking for these in a record store or even at Amazon. Not available. If you get the chance to see him live, he sometimes sells a CD with some of this stuff. When I bought the "X Rated Hits" at a DAC show in 2000, his people were literally selling it under the table. Cool, man!
