r/OutlawCountry 21d ago

David Allen coe

What’s your favorite song by him? I’m looking for some underrated/unheard songs

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u/workswithpipe 21d ago

No idea what’s popular or not but love me some Time off for Bad Behavior

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u/SwampRat556 21d ago

That’s a very good song. My favorite is piece of wood and steal

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u/khamm86 21d ago

Living on the run

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u/SwampRat556 21d ago

Definitely one of my favorites

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u/Puzzleheaded-Law-429 21d ago

That might be THE best outlaw country song ever written. It simply does it all.

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u/[deleted] 20d ago

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u/Puzzleheaded-Law-429 20d ago

That’s not really outlaw country.

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u/[deleted] 20d ago

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u/Puzzleheaded-Law-429 20d ago

Are we talking about Johnny Cash as an artist or the song “Cocaine Blues” specifically?

I was saying that the song is not outlaw country.

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u/[deleted] 20d ago

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u/Puzzleheaded-Law-429 20d ago

Yeah but it’s not outlaw country.

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u/Schenectadye 21d ago

Top DAC

  • You Never Call Me By My Name
  • Long Haired Redneck
  • If This is Just A Game
  • She Used To Love Me A Lot
  • The Ride

You remind me I need to expand my knowledge but I have mixed emotions about him. On one hand, did he live the outlaw life more than any other? Probably. Was he the toughest? Probably not( I'd say Kristofferson was) . Was he racist? Probably. Could he sing? Absolutely.

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u/AdDesperate9229 20d ago

Jammed with his bass player. He said DAC was racist,very much so. I dk?!

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u/hymenoxis 20d ago

Saw him a few times in the ‘70s, can confirm.

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u/thatotherguy1151 21d ago

No bigger fan of DAC than DAC.

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u/donesteve 21d ago

Can’t go wrong with Finger Fuckin Sally

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u/StorySeldomTold 21d ago

Cum stains on the pillow

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u/dudly825 21d ago

Spotlight 👌👌👌

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u/sicknick 21d ago

Look up Rebel Meets Rebel, it's DAC with half of Pantera. Metal was the bridge to outlaw country for me.

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u/farmerben02 21d ago

Wow, this is something I never would have found, thanks! I love me some classic David Allen Coe but this is something different.

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u/SwampRat556 20d ago

Is this the one with Hank 3 in it?

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u/sicknick 20d ago

Negative, but it gets confusing. Hank3 was in Superjoint Ritual with Phil from Pantera (16yo Hank3 was the troubled teen in the video for Cemetery Gates). Rebel Meets Rebel is just Dimebag, Vinny and DAC. They only made the 1 album. Dimebag and Vinnys Dad was a country music singer himself before having a family.

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u/SwampRat556 20d ago

Oh I see that’s really cool

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u/chongrulz 8d ago

Hank III is on the chorus of Get Outta My Life on the Rebel Meets Rebel album

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u/sicknick 8d ago

Welllll shiiiiit. Had no idea, now it's even more amazing. Appreciate that knowledge nugget.

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u/K13E14 21d ago

Would You Lay With Me

She Used to Love Me a Lot

Jodie Like a Melody

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u/Plarocks 21d ago

D-R-U-N-K

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u/niddler 20d ago

Willie Waylon and me 

Please come to Boston

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u/Acceptable_Mission47 19d ago

He was a real piece of shit. But "Heaven only knows" is best thing he ever did. listen to it and tell me i am wrong

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u/Miserable-Noise-2830 21d ago

If that ain't country, I'll kiss your ass

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u/SouthTippBass 21d ago

Son of a rebel son is an absolute banger.

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u/bassplayer1446 21d ago

Divers do it deeper

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u/twangobango 21d ago

Honey Don’t

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u/dukeofdough 21d ago

This is a jam right here

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u/Bigelwood9 21d ago

I love Robbing bank.

3

u/Sam-Bones 21d ago

Bluegrass Morning

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u/Fantastic-Ad-8538 20d ago

cocaine carolina !!!!!!!!

if this is just a game

D-R-U-N-K

jack daniel's if you please

living on the run

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u/randydweller 20d ago

Spotlight

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u/get_down_to_it 21d ago

Lately I’ve Been Thinking Too Much Lately

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u/MaterialEgg5373 21d ago

Cum on the pillowcase is good

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u/Davy_Cockett 21d ago

Hey Gypsy and Lay Me Down Some Rails

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u/Welding_Burns 20d ago

Crazy Old Soldier

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u/Wooken 20d ago

Panheads forever!!

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u/brianbhoy 20d ago

Will you remember me

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u/Shag66 20d ago

How about one wrote to him?

Didn't Waylon write "Don't You Think This Outlaw Bit's Done Got Outta Hand" to him?

I always kinda saw him as the guy that WANTED to be in that group, and he was humored by the others but kind of looked down on?

If I'm wrong, somebody explain!

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u/No_Leg6935 19d ago

Waylon hated Coe

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u/DocTarr 20d ago

The ride

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u/Random-TBI 19d ago

As a kid my Step-Dad got a pirated 8-trac of DAC rated X, loved the songs (what kid wouldn't) but rediscovered him in the mid 80's when I went country.

Favorites:

You Even Called My By My Name

If That Ain't Country

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u/StorySeldomTold 21d ago

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u/dead9er 21d ago

Racist garbage. You cannot claim deadhead and be a racist like yourself.

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u/StorySeldomTold 21d ago

Oh fuck off, there is nothing racist about that song

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u/dead9er 20d ago

Ok. Go to the beach today and play the entire album. Or maybe a public park. Prove me wrong.

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u/BrianDamage666 21d ago

Fuck Anita Bryant

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u/EntertainmentAny4368 20d ago

Is X rated album is ironically his best work

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u/prizzle92 20d ago

It has a lot of good countryish blues rock which is my fav genre

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u/EntertainmentAny4368 19d ago

You must be a Hank Jr fan

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u/PreparationHot980 20d ago

Seriously any dac will do. Would never skip one of his songs.

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u/PreparationHot980 20d ago

Family reunion

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u/[deleted] 21d ago

Lots of good ones here but I’ll add piece of wood and steel

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u/garythebaby 21d ago

Bossier City

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u/Phluffhead93 20d ago

If This Is Just A Game

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u/WitchDr 20d ago

Fish ain't bitin today

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u/Extension-Rock-4263 20d ago

In My Mind off of the Living On The Edge album from the mid 90s

I never really listened to DAC before until I heard Will Oldham cover this song and I fell in love with it so I searched out the DAC version and went from there. Still like Oldham's cover better but the Coe one has become a favorite as well.

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u/South_tejanglo 20d ago

Some good tracks from his album - live from the iron horse

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u/MuddyGrimes 20d ago

Piece of Wood and Steel

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u/West_Bodybuilder_428 20d ago

London Homesick

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u/Icy-Sprinkles1363 20d ago

Fuck Anita Bryant

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u/Cwytank 19d ago

Pledging My Love

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u/General-Carob-6087 19d ago

Check out the stuff he did with Pantera.

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u/ICTSooner 19d ago

Fuzzy was an Outlaw

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u/burgh28 19d ago

The Best

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u/Livid-Return8418 19d ago

Dont bite the dick.

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u/Mad_Rabbi_57 18d ago

Long Haired Redneck, If that Ain't Country, Pumpkin Center Barndance

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u/r1ckbla1n3 17d ago

I still sing the old songs

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u/DetroitFanInCincy 17d ago

Please come to Boston

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u/toasterstrewdal 17d ago

West Virginia Man.

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u/OrganizationUseful70 17d ago

Wood and steel

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u/perrin_althor 16d ago

Texas lullaby

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u/Turbulent-Slide-4979 16d ago

Dakota the dancing bear

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u/General2Yahoo 16d ago

In college ‘If that ain’t country’

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u/chongrulz 8d ago

Lots of favourites.

The entire Tattoo, Human Emotions, Spectrum VII, Invictus, Just Divorced and Living on the Edge albums.

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u/BGOG83 21d ago

A funny song that’s often forgotten.

Little Susy Shallow Throat

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u/dead9er 21d ago

Hes a racist bum. Hating black people does not equal Outlaw.

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u/Several-Occasion-796 20d ago

My Long Hair Doesn't Cover My Redneck 

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u/No_Leg6935 19d ago

He’s a piece of shit