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Born September 6th 1939 in Akron, Ohio,
USA. From the age of nine, Coe was in and out of reform schools,
correction centers and prisons. According to his publicity handout, he
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'. Whatever the truth of the
matter, 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. His defiant stance and love of
motorbikes, multiple tattoos and ultra-long hair made him a natural
'Nashville outlaw', which he wrote about in the self-glorifying
'Longhaired Redneck' and 'Willie, Waylon And Me'. 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 up a meeting between Coe and Hank
Williams, and 'Mona Lisa's Lost Her Smile' (1984), which reached
number 2 on the US country charts, his highest position as a performer.
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 |
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