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His most popular songs performed by others are the number-one hits "Would You Lay With Me (In a Field of Stone)" sung by Tanya Tucker and Johnny Paycheck 's rendition of "Take This Job and Shove It". The latter inspired the movie of the same name.
This is a detailed discography for American country musician David Allan Coe. He started his career in 1970 on SSS International Records before signing with Columbia Records and staying with the label for 15 years.
- Spending 20 Years In Reform School & Prison. In a genre of music where what you’ve done and how you lived goes a long way into putting legitimacy behind the songs you sing, David Allan Coe’s story is arguably filled with more street cred than any other major performer in the history of the genre.
- Living In A Hearse / Parking It at the Grand Ole Opry. After getting out of prison in 1967, David Allan Coe moved to Nashville to pursue his country music career.
- Being The First Country Artist to Have and All Girl Backup Band. That’s right. The man that would probably would be fingered as country music’s biggest misogynist had country music’s first female backing band called the Ladysmiths.
- Recording “The Ride” If you’re anything like me, when you first heard this song, and when you realized Coe was singling about Hank Williams, it was one of those singular musical moments that made your spine tingle and the hair on your arms stand on end.
David Allan Coe, Johnny Paycheck & Others by David Allan Coe released in 1995. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.
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Sep 4, 2000 · In the early 80's the outlaw country singer David Allan Coe released very small quantities of two underground albums of songs that are among the most racist, misogynist, homophobic and...
Nov 10, 2019 · David Allan Coe – he of the beaded beard and the Confederate-themed guitar – has been accused of writing and recording some of the most racist, misogynistic, sexually explicit material ever,...
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In 1978 Johnny Paycheck had a US country number 1 with Coe’s ‘Take This Job And Shove It’, which inspired a film of the same title in 1981, and Coe’s own successes included the witty ‘Divers Do It Deeper’ (1978), ‘Jack Daniels If You Please’ (1979), ‘Now I Lay Me Down To Cheat’ (1982), ‘The Ride’ (1983), which conjures ...
