Re: R.I.P. David Allen Coe

Country outlaw, prodigious liar, writer of "Would You Lay With Me In a Field of Stone" and "Take This Job and Shove It." Notorious for recording a couple of albums of edgelord supposed "humor" that pretty much had to be bought from beneath the counter in a plain brown wrapper and were about as funny as being shot in the ass with a blunderbuss, at least to anyone not a shitbird.

The best things he produced were his kids, Alt-country songbird Tanya Montana Coe, and Tyler Mahan Coe, the creator of Cocaine and Rhinestones, the best music podcast out there on the vanishingly rare occasions he gets around to doing it.

He wrote & recorded "The Devil Went to Jamaica," a parody of the Charlie Daniels Band's biggest hit. I wouldn't call it "edgelord" stuff. In fact, I'd say it's pretty funny.

I didn't mean to imply all of his funny stuff was edgelord and button-pushing for the sake of button-pushing, just the two underground albums that featured such charming ditties as "N****r Fucker" and "Cum Stains on the Pillow (Where Your Sweet Head Used To Be)."

You know, sometimes it’s funny how life turns out.

For example, I never knew it would be a conversation about David Allen Coe that would cause me to look up and learn the term ‘edgelord’.