David Allan Coe - Rough Rider: Dac Plus (CD)

And now we continue our ongoing exploration of the unjustly overlooked David Allan Coe catalog. A life-long renegade, Coe has been one of the most colorful and unpredictable characters in country music? or any music. An outlaw pioneer, he didn't score many big hits, although he wrote several big hits for others? including Would You Lay With Me In A Field Of Stone and Take This Job And Shove It. He was also incredibly prolific: during thirteen years with Columbia Records, he released almost two LPs a year. Here, we focus on the years 1982-1985. Rough Rider' and 'DAC' come from 1982 and the mostly self-composed songs chart Coe's tempestuous life during this time. As David Allan Coe himself says,'Here's another chapter in the never-ending romance of David Allan Coe's life.' Based in Florida, he was not only writing enough great songs to fill two LPs, but a book about his prison experience (and how to survive prison? if you happen to be there). Coe himself provides detailed song-by-song commentaries, mapping the words to his life.

Track List:

Disc: 1

1. Pouring Water on a Drowning Man
2. What Made You Change Your Mind
3. Ice Cold Love
4. Now I Lay Me Down to Cheat
5. Rough Rider
6. Take Time to Know Her
7. Time After Time
8. Forever and Never
9. Headed for the Country
10. Meanwhile Back in Memphis
11. Looking in the Mirror
12. Lyin' Comes So Easy to Your Lips
13. Last Time She'll Leave Me This Time
14. I Gave Up (On Trying to Get Over You)
15. Voices
16. She Loved the Leavin' Out of Me
17. I'll Never Regret Loving You
18. It's a Sad Situation
19. Those Low Down Blues
20. Whiskey, Whiskey (Take My Mind)
21. Couples
22. Would You Be My Lady
23. David's Blues
24. Free Born Ramblin' Man