David Allan Coe

You never even called me by my name

... Well, a friend of mine named Steve Goodman wrote that song
And he told me it was the perfect country & western song
I wrote him back a letter and I told him it was not the perfect country & western song
Because he hadn't said anything at all about mama
Or trains, or trucks, or prison, or getting' drunk
Well, he sat down and wrote another verse to the song and he sent it to me
And after reading it I realized that my friend had written the perfect country & western song
And I felt obliged to include it on this album
The last verse goes like this here
Well, I was drunk the day my mom got out of prison
And I went to pick her up in the rain
But before I could get to the station in my pickup truck
She got run over by a damned old train
And I'll hang around as long as you will let me
And I never minded standing' in the rain, no
But you don't have to call me darlin', darlin'
You never even called me
Well, I wonder why you don't call me
Why don't you ever call me by my name
 
Godspeed David Allan Coe.

DAC was a complete genius of his musical genre(s) - outlaw country / outlaw blues. Unbridled rawness and power, uncommon depth, and rarely polished and packaged for the pop country mass audience. And DAC was a highly complex figure, as the Rolling Stone obituary notes... complex and controversial, not always in a good way.

For years, I struggled with my vast appreciation for Coe's music, versus my strong disapproval for how he represented himself as a person. At one point, I literally threw away all my DAC albums. I later gave up the struggle, deciding my role was to judge the art, not the artist.

Sorry Tanya Tucker, but this is the definitive rendition...



A minor album-filler that I had completely overlooked until recently. It's a country love song, DAC style...
 
Yeah well he wrote it. I never was much of a fan of the outlaw country period. I did know DAC was a real outlaw instead of being dressed up like a dude with a black hat acting like one. Habitual offender. The song story he told so well that I posted was a common story of many habitual offenders doing life on the installment plan. I heard the story of that song more times than I can count. Pour a bit of alcohol or drugs, paint on the fire and I'm back.
 
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