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1-CD with 40-page booklet, 21 tracks. Playing time approx. 63 mns. Two long playing records,...more

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David Allan Coe: Longhaired Redneck - Rides Again (CD)

1-CD with 40-page booklet, 21 tracks. Playing time approx. 63 mns.

Two long playing records, originally released on Columbia, "Longhaired Redneck" (1976), and "Rides Again" (1977), on one CD. Comes with extensive liner notes and many photos.

DAVID ALLAN COE LONGHAIRED REDNECK • RIDES AGAIN

"A guy wrote a letter to my record company and said he heard me in concert one night and I acted like I'd invented country music. That I talked so much trash. It's not that I invented country music. It's that I have, in fifteen years, really made a hell of a mark in country music. And I have not been given credit for what I've done."

David Allan Coe (to Michael Bane) 'Country Music Magazine' ca. 1985

Even a brief study of the life and music of David Allan Coe leads one to the inevitable question of which comes first: the music or the image? And where would one be without the other?

David Allan Coe is admittedly one of the most unique, roughcut, and controversial figures ever to swagger across modern country music's often smooth, placid landscape. This ex-convict, ex-motorcycle gangmember is a textbook case of man whose music and whose public persona have become almost inseparable in the listening public's imagination.

Whether Coe laments the lack of critical and historical recognition he's been afforded or despairs over the fact that his music has seldom been measured outside the shadow of his heavily tattooed, long-haired, hellraising, larger-than-life and largely self-created image, he's got a point on both counts. After all, he is one of the few completely self-styled artists to ever claw, bluster, and brawl his way intact through the repressive and largely conformist Nashville studio system in the mid-1970s. Along the way, he did make a considerable mark for himself on the heels of Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, and other prominent leaders of country music's long-gone 'Outlaw' movement.

And —like Jennings and Nelson — Coe, 'The Mysterious Rhinestone Cowboy,' never left Nashville, yet still managed to do it on his own terms: singing his own songs, sometimes recording with his own band, and always projecting a public image (or actually 'several' public images, for that matter) that were clearly of his own creation and no record company publicist's idle daydream. ('Who', after all, could have 'invented"The Mysterious Rhinestone Cowboy' except Coe himself?) For Coe, his first taste of major-label success in the mid-1970s — records in the charts and the critical accolades —were reassurances that he'd finally arrived at a place he'd been trying to get to for years.

Coe came to Nashville in the mid-1960s, fresh out of prison. But his musical aspirations dated back many years before that, back to his native state of Ohio where he'd done time in the Ohio Penitentiary and various other penal institutions and youth reformatories.

"I grew up listening to all kinds of music and I've got a lot of different influences musically from the early fifties. (Everyone from black groups to Jimmie Rodgers and Lefty Frizzell and Hank Williams.) ... At one time I was playing clarinet and saxophone in a 27-piece orchestra, I was playing drums in a jazz band, I was playing guitar and piano in a country and western band, I was playing fiddle and mandolin in a bluegrass band, and I was doing all that at the same time.

Then, when I got out of prison and started working in bars ... I had a band called Ely Radish, and we were based out of Cleveland, Ohio. We had hair down to our waist and were playing country music before it was real fashionable ... We were playing country and rock'n roll at the same time and that was long before the Byrds or any of those people came along ... We did an album called 'I Didn't Raise My Son To Be A Soldier,' which was probably the worst album in the world..."

David Allan Coe (as told to Otto Kitsinger) June, 1987

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Interpret: David Allan Coe
Album titlle: Longhaired Redneck - Rides Again (CD)
Genre Country
Label Bear Family Records
Preiscode AH
Artikelart CD
EAN: 4000127157072
weight in Kg 0.115

Coe, David Allan - Longhaired Redneck - Rides Again (CD) CD 1
01	Longhaired Redneck	David Allan Coe
02	When She's Got Me (Where She Wants Me)	David Allan Coe
03	Revenge	David Allan Coe
04	Texas Lullaby	David Allan Coe
05	Living On The Run	David Allan Coe
06	Family Reunion	David Allan Coe
07	Rock & Roll Holiday	David Allan Coe
08	Free Born Rambling Man	David Allan Coe
09	Spotlight	David Allan Coe
10	Dakota The Dancing Bear (part 2)	David Allan Coe
11	Willie, Waylon And Me	David Allan Coe
12	The House We've Been Calling Home	David Allan Coe
13	Young Dallas Cowboy	David Allan Coe
14	A Sense Of Humor	David Allan Coe
15	The Punkin Center Barn Dance	David Allan Coe
16	Willie, Waylon And Me (reprise)	David Allan Coe
17	Lately I've Been Thinking Too Much Lately	David Allan Coe
18	Laid Back And Wasted	David Allan Coe
19	Under Rachel's Wings	David Allan Coe
20	Greener Than The Grass We Laid On	David Allan Coe
21	If That Ain't Country	David Allan Coe

DAVID ALLAN COE David Allan Coe 6. September 1939 – 29. April 2026 Outlaw,... more

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"David Allan Coe"

DAVID ALLAN COE

David Allan Coe
6. September 1939 – 29. April 2026

Outlaw, myth, and one of country music’s most uncompromising voices

David Allan Coe, born September 6, 1939 in Akron, Ohio, and who passed away on April 29, 2026 at the age of 86, was one of the most complex and defining figures in country music.

While many 1970s country artists aligned themselves with the outlaw movement as a stylistic choice, Coe lived it. He was not an image-driven outsider—he was one.

Much of his early life was spent in reform schools and prisons, where he developed his passion for music. After his release in 1967, he began performing in clubs before moving to Nashville in 1968.

His best-known songs include “You Never Even Called Me by My Name,” “The Ride,” and “Longhaired Redneck.” As a songwriter, he penned major hits such as “Would You Lay With Me (In a Field of Stone)” and “Take This Job and Shove It.”

For Bear Family Records, the focus has never been the myth—but the body of work. Carefully curated reissues made his music accessible in full depth.

With his passing, country music loses a true outlaw. His work endures.

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