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An Outlaw Looks At 75: Legacy Goes Digital With David Allan Coe’s Columbia Collection

September 2, 2014 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

David Allan Coe - Longhaired Redneck

This week, David Allan Coe turns 75.  Over those three-quarters of a century, Coe has given a face to outlaw country, raising rabble and raising hell even as he recorded some of the most enduring albums of the genre.  In celebration of the perennial rebel’s landmark birthday, Legacy Recordings is making 20 of his classic albums (and over 200 songs), originally released between 1974 and 1989, to digital service providers including Amazon MP3, iTunes and Spotify.  The digital initiative launches today with five titles released between 1974 and 1977 (The Mysterious Rhinestone Cowboy, Once Upon a Rhyme, Longhaired Redneck, Rides Again and Tattoo) and continues weekly through September 23, totaling four batches of five albums.

Legacy’s online collection from the vaults of Columbia Records spans the period between 1974’s major label debut The Mysterious Rhinestone Cowboy (so named for Coe’s outrageous onstage get-up) and 1989’s Crazy Daddy and includes such signature songs as “Would You Lay with Me (In a Field of Stone),” “Take This Job and Shove It,” “Mona Lisa Lost Her Smile” and “She Used to Love Me a Lot.”

The controversial, anti-establishment country hero’s body of work remains one of the most exciting and most daring in the country oeuvre, and this one-stop (digital) shopping just might provide a welcome entrée to a daunting, large discography.

After the jump, you can raise a little hell by perusing the complete release schedule to mark David Allan Coe’s 75th!

David Allan Coe, digital release program from Columbia Records/Legacy Recordings, 2014

Available at all digital service providers.  We have provided Amazon U.S. links below for the first batch!

09/02/14

1974     The Mysterious Rhinestone Cowboy

1975     Once Upon a Rhyme

1976     Longhaired Redneck

1977     Rides Again

1977     Tattoo

09/09/14

1978     Family Album

1978     Human Emotions

1979     Compass Point

1979     Spectrum VII

1980     I’ve Got Something to Say

09/16/14

1981      Invictus (Means) Unconquered

1981      Tennessee Whiskey

1983     Castles in the Sand

1983     Hello in There

1984     Just Divorced

09/23/14

1985     Darlin’, Darlin’

1985     Unchained

1986     Son of the South

1987     A Matter of Life…and Death

1989     Crazy Daddy

Categories: News Formats: Digital Download Genre: Country Tags: David Allan Coe

Joe Marchese

JOE MARCHESE (Editor) joined The Second Disc shortly after its launch in early 2010, and has since penned daily news and reviews about classic music of all genres. In 2015, Joe formed the Second Disc Records label. Celebrating the great songwriters, producers and artists who created the sound of American popular song, Second Disc Records, in conjunction with Real Gone Music, has released newly-curated collections produced by Joe from iconic artists such as Johnny Mathis, Bobby Darin, Laura Nyro, Melissa Manchester, Chet Atkins, and many others. He has contributed liner notes to reissues from a diverse array of artists, among them Nat "King" Cole, Paul Williams, Lesley Gore, Dusty Springfield, B.J. Thomas, The 5th Dimension, Burt Bacharach, The Mamas and the Papas, Carpenters, Perry Como, Rod McKuen, Doris Day, Jackie DeShannon, and Andy Williams, and has compiled releases for talents including Robert Goulet and Keith Allison of Paul Revere and the Raiders. Over the past two decades, Joe has also worked in a variety of capacities on and off Broadway as well as at some of the premier theatres in the U.S., including Lincoln Center Theater, George Street Playhouse, Paper Mill Playhouse, Long Wharf Theatre, and the York Theatre Company. He has felt privileged to work on productions alongside artists such as the late Jack Klugman, Eli Wallach, Arthur Laurents, Betty Comden and Adolph Green. In 2009, Joe began contributing theatre and music reviews to the print publication The Sondheim Review, and in 2012, he joined the staff of The Digital Bits as a regular contributor writing about film and television on DVD and Blu-ray. Joe currently resides in the suburbs of New York City.

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Comments

  1. Victor Dang says

    September 2, 2014 at 4:22 pm

    Do you know who remastered this? Just curious. Shame Sony/Legacy’s making this digital only…

    Reply
    • Connor says

      November 27, 2017 at 2:13 am

      I don’t know, and sometimes they aren’t remastered, just from the original master tapes. What i do know is Bear Family put out a couple CD’s with two DAC albums on them and some have bonus tracks, i think they made it separate from each other. And some of the albums may be from the box set called “The Mysterious David Allan Coe: 4 Classic Albums 1974-1978”

      Reply
  2. Just Saying says

    September 5, 2014 at 11:55 am

    Pretending like this is a big “Happy Birthday” is a little disingenuous, considering DAC lost all his publishing to these recordings. They were auctioned off to the highest bidder and someone else is about to become even more rich than they already have off of something they had no hand in creating.

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