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re: RIP David Allan Coe

Posted on 4/30/26 at 3:31 pm to
Posted by Big Scrub TX
Member since Dec 2013
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Posted on 4/30/26 at 3:31 pm to
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Was at the show at Robert E. Lees in Hammond the night Waylon died. Needless to say it didn't last long.

For obvious reasons. At that point, it was just down to him and Willie.
Posted by deltaland
Member since Mar 2011
102720 posts
Posted on 4/30/26 at 4:01 pm to
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Anyway, they had to help him out on stage and sat him in a chair where he stayed the whole time. He could barely walk. He still put on a great show and played most of his hits and a couple of his x rated songs.


Props to him for doing that in such poor health. Love him or hate him you have to respect the fact he was authentic and didn’t give a frick
Posted by dgnx6
Member since Feb 2006
89793 posts
Posted on 4/30/26 at 4:05 pm to
Posted by deltaland
Member since Mar 2011
102720 posts
Posted on 4/30/26 at 4:07 pm to
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say that as a huge George Jones fan too. Jones's version is good, but not as good as Coe's. Stapleton's version is absolute garbage


I judge people’s country music fanhood by asking them who originally wrote Tennessee Whiskey and who has the best version.

You’re in the God tier if you know it was originally a GJ song, because most don’t.
Posted by dgnx6
Member since Feb 2006
89793 posts
Posted on 4/30/26 at 4:13 pm to
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I chimed in with a: for God's sake don't let him hear any of his other ones


It's not like he has 1,000 songs all saying the n word. He has two non-mainstream albums, nothing sacred and underground. Those two have the controversial songs on them. But he also has 40 studio albums.














Posted by Ghost of Colby
Alberta, overlooking B.C.
Member since Jan 2009
15658 posts
Posted on 4/30/26 at 4:23 pm to
For all of DAC’s antics, self-sabotage, and outlaw reputation; He was one of the finest songwriters of love songs and heartbreak that’s ever lived.

They’re not my cup of tea, but he’s rarely credited for being a great songwriter of that genre.
Posted by Tiger Ugly
Baton Rouge
Member since Jul 2008
18711 posts
Posted on 4/30/26 at 4:31 pm to
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co wrote it with Steve Goodman


who also wrote "Go Cub Go"!
Posted by Jim Rockford
Member since May 2011
105301 posts
Posted on 4/30/26 at 4:32 pm to
Supposedly a patched member of Outlaws MC. I've never seen verification, but he did hang around with them and Waylon had an Outlaws bodyguard for a while.
Posted by Sam Quint
Member since Sep 2022
8877 posts
Posted on 4/30/26 at 4:49 pm to
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You’re in the God tier if you know it was originally a GJ song, because most don’t.

It wasn’t originally a Jones song. Dean Dillon wrote it, Coe recorded it first, then Jones.
Posted by N.O. via West-Cal
New Orleans
Member since Aug 2004
7877 posts
Posted on 4/30/26 at 6:17 pm to
“wasn’t originally a Jones song. Dean Dillon wrote it, Coe recorded it first, then Jones.”

All true. And it’s still a George Jones song. Once George sang it, it’d been sung.
Posted by Sam Quint
Member since Sep 2022
8877 posts
Posted on 4/30/26 at 6:31 pm to
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All true. And it’s still a George Jones song. Once George sang it, it’d been sung.

Typically I would agree with this statement except that I actually prefer Coe’s version of TW.

Tennessee Whiskey is a David Allan Coe song.
Posted by HogBalls
Member since Nov 2014
9178 posts
Posted on 4/30/26 at 6:51 pm to
“I need a little time off for bad behavior
The devil in me done been asleep too long
I need a little time off for bad behavior
It looks like I've been too good for too long

I'm up at dawn at the crack of dawn
I've been working like a regular dog
To keep my woman and the lights and the water and the phone turned on
I've been saying yes sir all day at work
I've been saying yes ma'am at home
I've been storing up the frick you's
Keepin' em under my tounge”
Posted by R11
Member since Aug 2017
5482 posts
Posted on 4/30/26 at 6:53 pm to
Sure is hard to figure
Posted by REB BEER
Laffy Yet
Member since Dec 2010
18074 posts
Posted on 4/30/26 at 7:50 pm to
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That’s one of my favorite DAC songs, along with “Living on the Run” and “The Ride”


Living on the Run is underrated.
Posted by REB BEER
Laffy Yet
Member since Dec 2010
18074 posts
Posted on 4/30/26 at 7:56 pm to
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Was at the show at Robert E. Lees in Hammond the night Waylon died.


You mean the one where he had Waylon written across his forehead backwards. Like he did it himself in the mirror? Nah, I wasn’t there either.

I believe it was Valentines Day IIRC.
Posted by REB BEER
Laffy Yet
Member since Dec 2010
18074 posts
Posted on 4/30/26 at 7:56 pm to
I guess he’s going home…

Posted by 3deadtrolls
lafayette
Member since Jan 2014
6908 posts
Posted on 4/30/26 at 8:11 pm to
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I'm up at dawn at the crack of dawn



I'm up and gone at the crack of dawn.
Posted by 1mic
Through the coulee
Member since Nov 2014
167 posts
Posted on 4/30/26 at 8:33 pm to
RIP DAC
They don’t make’um like that anymore
Posted by beebefootballfan
Member since Mar 2011
20873 posts
Posted on 4/30/26 at 8:58 pm to
Saw DAC 25 years ago at the New Daisy in Memphis. Ties with Chris Ledoux for best concert I have seen.
Posted by duckblind56
South of Ellick
Member since Sep 2023
5345 posts
Posted on 4/30/26 at 9:34 pm to
How in the hell did someone that lived like he did (at least in his younger years) live to be this old?

This post was edited on 4/30/26 at 9:36 pm
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