David Allan Coe : ce qu'il faut savoir

David Allan Coe en United Kingdom fait l'actualité ce jeudi. Selon Rolling Stone, David Allan Coe, the outlaw country singer known for songs like 'The Ride' and 'You Never Even Called Me by My Name,' has died at age 86.

Les faits

• David Allan Coe, the outlaw country singer known for songs like 'The Ride' and 'You Never Even Called Me by My Name,' has died at age 86.
• Country music icon David Allan Coe, famed for his outlaw image and hits like 'Take This Job and Shove It,' has passed away at 86.
• David Allan Coe, the outlaw country music singer known for his unrepentant, confrontational image and songs such as “You Never Even Called Me by My Name” and “The Ride,” has died.
• David Allan Coe, Singer of the 'Perfect Country and Western Song,' Dead at 86.
• Unable to resist another name-check, Coe added an outro verse in which Hank praises the new class of country singers, from Waylon Jennings and Billy Joe Shaver to David Allan Coe.

L'essentiel

The Economic Times indique que Country music icon David Allan Coe, famed for his outlaw image and hits like 'Take This Job and Shove It,' has passed away at 86. D'après Rolling Stone, David Allan Coe, the outlaw country music singer known for his unrepentant, confrontational image and songs such as “You Never Even Called Me by My Name” and “The Ride,” has died. Comme le souligne Rolling Stone, David Allan Coe, Singer of the 'Perfect Country and Western Song,' Dead at 86. Selon Rolling Stone, Unable to resist another name-check, Coe added an outro verse in which Hank praises the new class of country singers, from Waylon Jennings and Billy Joe Shaver to David Allan Coe.

Les chiffres

Rolling Stone indique que Born September 6, 1939, in Akron, Ohio, Coe spent much of his early years in and out of reformatories and prisons, serving time for charges ranging from grand theft auto to possession of burglary tools. D'après Rolling Stone, the claim was a dubious one. “Ninety percent of what he tells you is probably bullshit,” Shelby Singleton, the Nashville producer who discovered Coe, told Rolling Stone in 1976. “We thought it was a gimmick and we promoted it in that manner.” Comme le souligne Rolling Stone, But Coe, who arrived in Nashville in 1967, didn’t have to fake being a star. Selon Rolling Stone, after Tanya Tucker turned Coe’s song “Would You Lay With Me (In a Field of Stone)” into a Number One country hit in 1973, he became an in-demand — if still eccentric — singer-songwriter.

Le contexte

Selon Rolling Stone, And it’s not in a prison,” he said. “I no longer have to come back here and have everybody knowing who David Allan Coe is; now everybody on the street knows who I am. Rolling Stone indique que the follow-up, 1975’s Once Upon a Rhyme, featured Coe’s recording of “Would You Lay With Me” and the perennial jukebox number “You Never Even Called Me by My Name,” with its spoken-word interlude about it being the “perfect country and western song.” D'après Rolling Stone, In 1977, Johnny Paycheck, another hard-living outlaw singer, recorded Coe’s song “Take This Job and Shove It,” scoring a Number One country hit and adding a catchphrase about sticking it to The Man into the lexicon. Comme le souligne Rolling Stone, Coe recorded his own version a year later for 1978’s Family Album, an LP that also included the tropical vibes of “Divers Do It Deeper” (“divers do it deeper, jockeys do it shorter…sailors do it wetter, soldiers do it better,” went the chorus).

Recherches associées

Les recherches associées qui dominent la conversation : 'Tennessee Whiskey' devient la première chanson country à obtenir une certification double diamant • Interview de Warren Haynes (Gov't Mule) • Johnny Cash : un titre inédit dévoilé • Dougie Poole, ou les contes de la déprime ordinaire • Le bras d'honneur • Charles Manson, une histoire de drogues, de meurtres et de folk-songs.

À retenir

• The claim was a dubious one. “Ninety percent of what he tells you is probably bullshit,” Shelby Singleton, the Nashville producer who discovered Coe, told Rolling Stone in 1976. “We thought it was a gimmick and we promoted it in that manner.”
• After Tanya Tucker turned Coe’s song “Would You Lay With Me (In a Field of Stone)” into a Number One country hit in 1973, he became an in-demand — if still eccentric — singer-songwriter.
• The follow-up, 1975’s Once Upon a Rhyme, featured Coe’s recording of “Would You Lay With Me” and the perennial jukebox number “You Never Even Called Me by My Name,” with its spoken-word interlude about it being the “perfect country and western song.”
• Recherches qui explosent : 'Tennessee Whiskey' devient la première chanson country à obtenir une certification double diamant, Interview de Warren Haynes (Gov't Mule), Johnny Cash : un titre inédit dévoilé, Dougie Poole, ou les contes de la déprime ordinaire.