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Date Posted: 09:46:21 12/18/03 Thu
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Legendary David Allan Coe returns to Peabody’s on January 23
Cleveland, December 17—Legendary singer/songwriter David Allan Coe returns to Cleveland at Peabody’s DownUnder on Friday, January 23 for an 8:00 p.m. show. Tickets are $17 ADV/$20 DOS, and are now on sale at the Peabody’s DownUnder ticket office, all Ticketmaster locations, Ticketmaster.com or charge by phone at (216) 241-5555.
From the age of nine, David Allan Coe (a.k.a. the Longhaired Redneck Rock & Roll Son of the South) was in and out of reform schools, correction centers and prisons. He supposedly spent time on Death Row after killing a fellow inmate who demanded oral sex. When Rolling Stone magazine questioned this, Coe responded with a song, “I'd Like To Kick The Shit Out Of You.” Either way, Coe was paroled in 1967 and took his songs about prison life to Shelby Singleton who released two albums on his SSS label. Coe wrote Tanya Tucker's 1974 US country number 1, “Would You Lay With Me (In A Field Of Stone)?” He took to calling himself Davey Coe - the Mysterious Rhinestone Cowboy, performing in a mask, and driving a hearse. He satirized the themes of country music with hilarious additions to Steve Goodman's “You Never Even Called Me By My Name,” but has often used the clichés himself.
Coe’s defiant stance and love of motorbikes, multiple tattoos and ultra-long hair made him somewhat of an outlaw in Nashville, which he wrote about in the self-glorifying “Longhaired Redneck” and “Willie, Waylon And Me.” In 1978, Johnny Paycheck had a number 1 song with Coe's “Take This Job And Shove It,” which inspired a film of the same title in 1981. Coe's own successes included the witty songs “Divers Do It Deeper,” “Jack Daniels If You Please,” and “Now I Lay Me Down To Cheat.”
Recordings with other performers include “Don't Cry Darlin'' and “This Bottle (In My Hand)” with George Jones, “I've Already Cheated On You” with Willie Nelson, and “Get A Little Dirt On Your Hands” with Bill Anderson. Coe's 1978 album Human Emotions was about his divorce - one side being “Happy Side” and the other “Su-I-side.” The controversial cover of Texas Moon shows the bare backsides of his band and crew, and he has also released two mail-order albums of explicit songs, Nothing Sacred and Underground. Coe appears incapable of separating the good from the ridiculous and his albums are erratic. At his best, he is a sensitive, intelligent writer.
Similarly, Coe’s stage performances with his Tennessee Hat Band differ wildly in length and quality. Sometimes there is non-stop music, and sometimes there are conjuring tricks. Coe's main trick, however, is to remain successful, as country music fans remain exasperated with his over-the-top publicity. He may still be an outlaw but as Waylon Jennings remarks in Living Legends, that only means double-parking on Music Row.
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