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For the Record: First 10 Years

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The other reviewers said this was THE Coe record. I gotta say it is! If you want to hear saloon-singin', get this. You can almost taste the sour whiskey and smell the smoke while Dave Allen Coe hits his licks.

I first came across David Allen Coe when I started DJing country music in the early 80's. Stations I grew up listening to didn't play his stuff at all, but I found out quick who he was, and his influence on the Outlaw movement, and that as a songwriter.

This is a best-of collection, mostly the radio hits, with a few interesting extras, "Jody Like A Melody" being one. That was a B-side which he still does live (as he says in the notes).

Look for his 70's vintage albums, when he truly was a rocking outlaw, and the rare "Penitentiary Blues." This is a blues album, and it is very neat stuff.

While the consultants and Madison Avenue types have hijacked country music in favor of GQ models and cheerleaders who couldn't cut it as pop singers, there are still outlaws that do it the right way...Coe is one of the few left, along with Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson and a few more.

While he may look like Kid Rock's dad nowadays, the man does what he wants, how he wants and IF he wants. DAC rules!

This is a 5 star album in cassette form. I have recently been updating my old cassette collection to CDs (very difficult in some cases). I purchased this CD only to find that one of the best songs on it has been altered in CD form. The cassette version of "The Ride" includes a final verse of DAC talking as Hank saying, "Now you got alot of competition out there son. It's not like it was in the 50's when I was here. I mean you got Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Guy Clark, and Billy Joe Shafer, and David Allan Coe, and you even got my son."
Both versions of the song are the same length, but the CD just plays out in instrumental while the cassette has the above additional words. Can anyone explain this discrepancy? What CD has the additional verse version of "The Ride" on it?

This CD is one of the finest collections of true country music you will ever find. You can hear in his voice how he has lived every song, not just playing the music, but telling stories of his past. I guess that is why I call it true country music. And if you are new to David Allan Coe, this is a great place to start.

In my mama's eyes I never did a wrong thing....except not putting Family Album or David Allen Coe Rides Again...or Long Haired Redneck on CD in their original recorded entirety. Come on....give us the guy's music as it was intended. All these offerings are great for the Greatest Hits bucks...but the essential, laying off the night before in Atlanta or getting run out of Boulder music that is David Allen Coe is found in his concept of an album.

This is a great CD. And David is in tune on all songs. Great country music. I recommend this CD for your Country collection.

This is the best collection of David Allan Coe's out today. Period. Anyone who is a fan of current country superstars like Gretchen Wilson and Big and Rich owes it to themselves to check out the Outlaw Country movement and this collection shows that DAC had the songwriting chops to hang with some of the better known artist of that era, many of whom Coe name-checks in "Willie, Waylon, and Me."

The songs range from THE anthemic country sing along ("You Never Even Called Me By My Name"), to beautiful balladry ("Would You Lay With Me (In a Field of Stone)"), to honkey-tonk stompers ("Long Haired Redneck"); and if you have any respect for country music at all, I defy you to listen to "The Ride" and not get goose bumps.

There are a few covers, and a couple of songs written by Coe but made famous by other performers (Tanya Tucker on the aforementioned "...Field of Stone" and Johnny Paycheck with "Take This Job and Shove It") But it only takes a few listens to feel that Coe really makes these his own.

All and all an excellent set of songs by a rather under appreciated artist. Recommended for anyone who likes Outlaw Country, Southern Rock, or anything inbetween.

This is the David Allan Coe cd you have been searching for! It contains timeless hits with unforgettable melodies that everyone will love! If you have never listened the Outlaw, this album is the perfect place to start!

From humor, (You Never Even Called Me By My Name, Divers Do It Deeper, X's And O's) to heartbreak, (If That Ain't Country, Jack Daniel's If You Please, Mona Lisa Lost Her Smile) to love songs, (Jody Like A Melody, Would You Lay With Me, Tennessee Whiskey) David Allen Coe proves time and again that he has the range of talent to entertain at all levels of country music.

Add this one to your collection - You'll listen to it a thousand times seven.

David is one of the greatest artists I've heard in a long time just wish I could find some of his prison cuts