@@92Macmiller yes, Penitentiary Blues was the album, second album was a spoken word blues/rap sort of album Requiem for a Harlequin, then he went to mainstream country mostly until the naughty albums
this is from 1970 from DAC's first album he wouldnt see success for 5 years until you never even call me by my name in 1975 he would go on to have hits off and on until 1985 for columbia records his last record for that label came out in 1987 what a fantastic artist and what a look back to the start of the outlaw era in country music :)
I grew up in the early 70's around 2 of the best things that helped shape & influence me as a musician. Longhaul trucking and outlaw country! I thank my dad for it to. By 14yrs old, he had me training on a new 13Sp. V8 twin turbo, Mack "CruiseLiner" while Waylon's greatest hits played on the old Quadrophonic 8-track. On a dedicated SC-SoCal-GA. A great time era of trucking to be around! Loved it all & wouldn't take anything for the memories.
IT WILL BE 40 years TOMMR. of RONNIE VAN ZANTS DEATH, the day the music ran out of GAS and WENT into A TAIL SPIN;; no music cultural survivors;; kevin d. blanch
That's cool brother...in 1998 , myself and two other buddy's left North Alabama headed to Na$#Ville Tn. to see our hero Mr. David A. Coe by God! Long story short, we spotted him and a street talking to a street girl/whore outside in an alley across the street from where we were in line to get in to see him play. Other people close to us in line with us kinda disagreed saying that is not David Allen Coe. I grew my balls up nice and tight and fat and said hold my beer..my 20 year ole' young-ass weaves in and out of traffic, called jaywalking in the big citys, so I finally get to the alley across the street and I knew this was my hero David cause I seen him , he was like glowing and shit all around him with this aura or some shit.. I turned around with my chest poked out . I glanced at the dumb sumbitches who just questioned my impressive skill of. Master identification of famous outlaw country western musicians. Knowing they just have made there worst decisions in life just now by doubting me or David . Oh it was him let me tell ye' cause he was dressed from head to toe in the sharpest and most peculiar odd ass outfit ive ever seen , all the way down to his rainbow rubberbands that were all in his beard. I turned and looked at my two buddy's next nodded my head followed by a smooth ass grin and wink cause in less than 5 sec. I'm going to meet my friend and hero. I turn round with my hand firmly out in guestor of shaking hands then .... WRONG ! As I almost made eye contact with my friend David , when out the blue he's done grabbed me , has me up against the wall and has a switchblade knife pulled and it breaks the skin slightly all the way up , drew blood, on the side of my neck... and very softly says into my ear. " Boy do you have any idea who in the F#°k I am ? Matter' fact I do Mr.Coe. your The David Allen Coe sir. Who ?? he asked, Say my last name again and spell it he softly sings into my ear again. Coe. , then I correctly spell Coe. Then tells me to never walk up to him again like that or I would get cut and robbed. He said "Get the f#°k back over there in line and hands me the switchblade knife still open says here it's yours , now he gets me and kicks me dead in the ass kinda hard and says "go back get in that line boy" . As I get to the street to cross my friend David yells. " Hey watch ye'self son ... (Long pause) .....the man will cite your ass for jaywalk , you dig. I still have that knife. And a moment that I cherish as the years have so quickly ran me by. If I may ...what city and year, give or take , did you open and play with our friend David ? That's what is and was cool as shit brother to be able to jam with him.
Thanks for this brotherman. Big fan of DAC especially some of the originals, such as this. Thanks again! Nothing like finding live material. Like hearing it for the first time all over again.
DAC is a man of his environment....his childhood....the pen....a man of different times....sure some of his lyrics may have been racist in his early tunes....over his career he has shed that racism...i saw a recent live coe concert on tour w damage plan....his drummer was a black man....and his lyrics changed to working for a slave for my room and board....so yeah....this man is tried and true racist or not....coe is a man that speaks his mind....like it or not u have to respect it.....long live DAC......a timeless man....cultrural icon....
Here's one for you-I'm a liberal and I'm NOT offended by the stars and bars. Why, you may well ask? Well, according to many Constitutional scholars, the South had every right to be a sovereign nation. Think about Calexit, and you should get what I'm saying.
Kitten Lyric what’s not to know about them. They hate everyone that disagrees with them, they call them racist for no reason and they are communist. I know a Democrat when I see one.
Brent e,,,thanks sooo much for posting this great video.i live in daytona and have seen DAC 15- 18 times.been a fan since i was stationed in ft.campbell ky in 1982.i used to find his bootleg cassette tapes in local stores outside Nashville. I still have a few..anyway,thanks big time for video..i wonder if that's a young Waylon Jennings petting the dog in video?
Coe was on some killer blues shit in his early days. I feel like if he wasn't so eager to get into the country establishment he arguably wouldn't have been as successful but would garner way more respect from Actual musicians today.
Brent E. Awesome upload , thanks. Do you happen to know who the cat is sitting with David at around 3:00 min. Into the video that David refers to as have had written many songs. Thanks for your time. Joe S. , in Alabama , USA
Where is the lie? He murdered a fa99ot and got the death penalty for it. After being sent to the Starr Commonwealth For Boys reform school at the age of 9, he spent much of the next 20 years in correctional facilities, including three years at the Ohio Penitentiary. Just because you never walked in his shoes doesn't mean he's a liar. You probably wouldn't survive prison like him. Ohio prisons are some of the most brutal. There were no prison cameras back then so everything was a lot worse for inmates.
@@theformernihilist9891 The Warden of the Prison called DAC out, he never killed anyone, maybe in a dream he had. This information came out in an interview with the Warden at the time.
@@GW4PCITY inever understood why people say children can see stuff on here. TH-cam kids is a thing for a reason, if parents let their kids on here then they shouldn't be complaining when their kid see's this shit, and i assume you were joking since you said fuck in what you said but i just wanted to say what i said lol
"DAC" tha man of a hundred faces is wat my pa calls him! Every album cover is a different style or look for one of tha freakin greatest song writer's / sanger that never did in my opinion get the recognition for countless songs that he's written and recorded!! Keep on keepin coe!!!!!
At least try to keep good make the comments here but apparently somebody don't like that so we have to be very cordial what we say so just keep the kids away and let the grown-ups play
@@jeffbruner4875 when he was a little kid he was abandoned at a boy’s home and stole a car with other kids when we was still a child and got put in juvi. Then was on parole and got caught with “lewd material” which was a nude pin up in his wallet when he was a teenager and got sent back for 7 years. Don’t know what the last years were for. Does that really make someone a piece of shit?
![David Allan Coe - Songwriting [A Live at Billy Bob's Texas Short]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/Z25sktN-Zs8/mqdefault.jpg)
wish he would have made more albums with the raw bluesy style of this one.
This was his first album right
@@92Macmiller yes, Penitentiary Blues was the album, second album was a spoken word blues/rap sort of album Requiem for a Harlequin, then he went to mainstream country mostly until the naughty albums
@@SicillianmanDon not really a fan of those
Hell yeah. DAC went hard as hell and he's still around to this day. You don't see that very often.
This is his first and one of his best albums. Also love his country outlaw music.
This is the most badass thing I’ve ever seen
DAC , Forever my favorite Country Star till I die. I only like artist that tell the truth , good or bad
DAC has to have a high IQ most underrated song writer. Have seen him at least 7 times awesome songs and lyrics great stories.
Awesome, lucky I got to hear this. It's rare material.
It was neat to see his early days as a performer.
I’ve never seen footage of DAC this young. Unreal, I feel like I’m listing to him for the first time all over again
"They never even call him by his name."
Maybe because he looks like Merl Haggard but sounds like David Allen Cow.
Always good to hear this since I was a teen puts me in a mood
this is from 1970 from DAC's first album he wouldnt see success for 5 years until you never even call me by my name in 1975 he would go on to have hits off and on until 1985 for columbia records his last record for that label came out in 1987 what a fantastic artist and what a look back to the start of the outlaw era in country music :)
He looks so sad and depressed in this video..I can see he's been through Hell
David seems stoned off his ass. I always loved the dude, he was such an interesting, original cat.
Jonah Fuerstenberg lol i was guna say hes flying but u beet me to it
Was? Is bro
I grew up in the early 70's around 2 of the best things that helped shape & influence me as a musician. Longhaul trucking and outlaw country! I thank my dad for it to. By 14yrs old, he had me training on a new 13Sp. V8 twin turbo, Mack "CruiseLiner" while Waylon's greatest hits played on the old Quadrophonic 8-track.
On a dedicated SC-SoCal-GA.
A great time era of trucking to be around! Loved it all & wouldn't take anything for the memories.
Truckers back then were low down good for nothing loosers
"He's traded his prison number for a number on an LP record." Profound.
Coe is one of my absolute favorites
Layin down some funk, DAC style!
I don’t care what people say about him. His music, cured my friend’s depression! Thank You David Allan Coe!
DAC fan for over35 yrs....This is kick ass,Thanks man.
glad you enjoyed this rare video. i appreciate your watching
Noone was more outlaw than DAC
Can't go wrong w coe.....i wouldn't give a damn what anybody says....speaks from the heart.....
I love this album, all his albums! I've never seen this before. It's fucking great!
I thought that was Billy Jack at first nevertheless listening & seeing Coe appears he was stoned out of his mind..
Billy jack Haynes?
It's well known Coe doesn't do drugs...probably the reason he's still with us when so many of his contemporaries are gone.
Thank you,that was awesome..D.A.C.is a legend,.one of a kind.🤠
Love the blues....
Thanks for posting!
JJK
If you ain't never been behind the wall you wouldn't understand, count time
How bout CHOW TIME !!!
Weighting you #on everything illionios B79747
@@davejunior769 the only good part of the day lol
Ronnie Van Zant sounds like DAC on these country flavored blues. Love them both.
IT WILL BE 40 years TOMMR. of RONNIE VAN ZANTS DEATH, the day the music ran out of GAS and WENT into A TAIL SPIN;; no music cultural survivors;; kevin d. blanch
tsaR. T. I remember that day in 1977. Big loss to the music world for sure.
Nice to see a really clean copy of this! Got a vhs copy maybe 15 years ago, barely watchable but cool as hell anyway!
This is just the best.
Long live DAC
lockandloadlikehell
The best moment in my musical life was and will always be opening for D.A.C.!
That's cool brother...in 1998 , myself and two other buddy's left North Alabama headed to Na$#Ville Tn. to see our hero Mr. David A. Coe by God!
Long story short, we spotted him and a street talking to a street girl/whore outside in an alley across the street from where we were in line to get in to see him play. Other people close to us in line with us kinda disagreed saying that is not David Allen Coe. I grew my balls up nice and tight and fat and said hold my beer..my 20 year ole' young-ass weaves in and out of traffic, called jaywalking in the big citys, so I finally get to the alley across the street and I knew this was my hero David cause I seen him , he was like glowing and shit all around him with this aura or some shit.. I turned around with my chest poked out . I glanced at the dumb sumbitches who just questioned my impressive skill of. Master identification of famous outlaw country western musicians. Knowing they just have made there worst decisions in life just now by doubting me or David . Oh it was him let me tell ye' cause he was dressed from head to toe in the sharpest and most peculiar odd ass outfit ive ever seen , all the way down to his rainbow rubberbands that were all in his beard. I turned and looked at my two buddy's next nodded my head followed by a smooth ass grin and wink cause in less than 5 sec. I'm going to meet my friend and hero. I turn round with my hand firmly out in guestor of shaking hands then ....
WRONG !
As I almost made eye contact with my friend David , when out the blue he's done grabbed me , has me up against the wall and has a switchblade knife pulled and it breaks the skin slightly all the way up , drew blood, on the side of my neck... and very softly says into my ear. " Boy do you have any idea who in the F#°k I am ?
Matter' fact I do Mr.Coe. your The David Allen Coe sir.
Who ?? he asked, Say my last name again and spell it he softly sings into my ear again. Coe. , then I correctly spell Coe. Then tells me to never walk up to him again like that or I would get cut and robbed. He said "Get the f#°k back over there in line and hands me the switchblade knife still open says here it's yours , now he gets me and kicks me dead in the ass kinda hard and says "go back get in that line boy" . As I get to the street to cross my friend David yells. " Hey watch ye'self son ... (Long pause) .....the man will cite your ass for jaywalk , you dig.
I still have that knife. And a moment that I cherish as the years have so quickly ran me by.
If I may ...what city and year, give or take , did you open and play with our friend David ?
That's what is and was cool as shit brother to be able to jam with him.
@@josephstuart7185 2012 or 13 in Reading, PA. Interesting story if I may say.
Hell Yeah !!! BURN MORE COAL !!!!
Damn ! WTF did you get this ????? I've heard Coe through TH-cam over 20? years now .. and never seen any Video ever ! They banned him
No they didn't, there is all types of videos from way back. Wtf are you talking about?
@IchigoMatsumoto1889I've got a lot I'm going to try and upload from 69-71
@@wildestcowboy2668subbscibed and waiting !!! Please upload anything you can !!! Thnx
LOVED THIS ANYTHINGS POSSIBLE
“Country DJs know that I’m an outlaw” - DAC the LEGEND
and theyd never come to see me in this dive
As a child I saw his talent.
100% true. Can say from experience. Love and respect to this fellow outlaw.
He is the baddest live show I have ever seen.
What?
Thanks for this brotherman. Big fan of DAC especially some of the originals, such as this. Thanks again! Nothing like finding live material. Like hearing it for the first time all over again.
Glad you found this video Marc. DAC rules. thanks for watching.
Always nice to see a rare documentary about interesting people. DAC is sure one of ém. Thx again Brent
This is pure Shelby Singleton marketing
The narrator reminds of gta San Andreas station k-dst: "you might be on the dust"
Definitely
Reminds me of Jack Webb from Dragnet.
DAC is a man of his environment....his childhood....the pen....a man of different times....sure some of his lyrics may have been racist in his early tunes....over his career he has shed that racism...i saw a recent live coe concert on tour w damage plan....his drummer was a black man....and his lyrics changed to working for a slave for my room and board....so yeah....this man is tried and true racist or not....coe is a man that speaks his mind....like it or not u have to respect it.....long live DAC......a timeless man....cultrural icon....
webbie werks plus if ur in prison u are very divided by race especially in the early 60s! He was a good dude
they don't make em like this anymore
Plays like the entire album in the promo.
Hey man, who's the one with the dog?
Who is DAC talking to about song writing?
One of the last country outlaws!
bad bad man dude can sing
16 democrats disliked the video because they were offended but the Stars and Bars
Here's one for you-I'm a liberal and I'm NOT offended by the stars and bars. Why, you may well ask? Well, according to many Constitutional scholars, the South had every right to be a sovereign nation. Think about Calexit, and you should get what I'm saying.
Love the flag, hate retarded racist trash like David Coe. He is too talented to have written the hateful crap he did for years.
@@TheBrooklynbodine glad that cesspool is exiting
Kitten Lyric what’s not to know about them. They hate everyone that disagrees with them, they call them racist for no reason and they are communist. I know a Democrat when I see one.
@@charlesgring8560 You "love the flag" but you hate our founding fathers that said America is for white people only.
was he hanging out with shel silverstein in this video?
AT THE AGE OF NINE WAS HE SENT TO STAR COMONWEALTH AT MI. OR OH.
At the age of eight he shot a man in Reno just to watch him die.
Killed him a bear when was only three
his blues persona is cooler than his country persona, but both of his musics are bad to the bones.😎🤠
DAC is a great songwriter.
And he had his head more together then. Didn't realise how tall & skinny !
So that's what DAC looked like when young.
I can dig it✌
Brent e,,,thanks sooo much for posting this great video.i live in daytona and have seen DAC 15- 18 times.been a fan since i was stationed in ft.campbell ky in 1982.i used to find his bootleg cassette tapes in local stores outside Nashville. I still have a few..anyway,thanks big time for video..i wonder if that's a young Waylon Jennings petting the dog in video?
You're that old and that dumb? A "young" Waylon Jennings would've been 38 in 1975....you do realize young Waylon played in the 50s right?
Yes I’ve been away awhile. Thanks so much for sharing this.
good vedio
@Tina Beck,hope you are well. Just wanted to let you know that Brent has passed away in case you hadn't heard...Take care...Tina..
Thanks man!! This is cool AF!
@Daniel Strickland "as fuck"
Hard life going to prison when you're 9 yrs old 😂
Who is the other guy?
So happy that my brother shared this with me. Excellent old footage.
This album is Unironically his best and most unusual album
I think Requiem for a Harlequin takes the unusual cake by a mile
Coe was on some killer blues shit in his early days. I feel like if he wasn't so eager to get into the country establishment he arguably wouldn't have been as successful but would garner way more respect from Actual musicians today.
blue jean bell bottoms.that is cool man.i really dig it man
WOW
DAC.......hell yes
I think GOD TOUCHED HIM , HE ADMITS THIS FACT , I FEEL
a young DAC & Teddy Paige
He has achieved a certain marketable knowledge about playing black blues licks. Give him credit.
I dig ✌🏻
Solid Country Gold
Good old days
Love me some D.A.C.
This side of him reminds me a bit of Peter Green.
Brent E.
Awesome upload , thanks. Do you happen to know who the cat is sitting with David at around 3:00 min. Into the video that David refers to as have had written many songs.
Thanks for your time.
Joe S. , in Alabama , USA
glad you enjoyed it Joe. I have no idea who that person is he is talking to at that point in the video. thanks for watching
@@BrentE79 I think it is Ronny Van Zant. Not 100% sure but I think it is...thanks again.
I been trying to figure that out for years now.
That doesn’t look like any pictures I have seen of Ronnie Van Zant.. I could be wrong
I'm pretty sure it's Zappa.
Acid dreams
Was he with “The Flying Burritos” in this video?
This guy is a liar that could never get his story straight. Great singer and song writer though.
Yea he did create different images for himself. I still like him a lot though I don't approve of lies.
Sometime people on drugs believe their own lies lol
Where is the lie? He murdered a fa99ot and got the death penalty for it. After being sent to the Starr Commonwealth For Boys reform school at the age of 9, he spent much of the next 20 years in correctional facilities, including three years at the Ohio Penitentiary. Just because you never walked in his shoes doesn't mean he's a liar. You probably wouldn't survive prison like him. Ohio prisons are some of the most brutal. There were no prison cameras back then so everything was a lot worse for inmates.
Self promoting phony is what he is
@@theformernihilist9891 The Warden of the Prison called DAC out, he never killed anyone, maybe in a dream he had. This information came out in an interview with the Warden at the time.
Good shit
Dac
Can someone direct me to this version of Penitentiary Blues? Its the opening song and I cannot seem to find it anywhere.
Same man.. I love this version the best but can't find it anywhere but here
He's fucking skinny in this video
@Glen Yates of fuck, i didnt realise saying fuck was a bad fucking thing
@@Xx0ME0xX all of you need to watch the f bombs! For fuck sake, children may read this.
@@GW4PCITY inever understood why people say children can see stuff on here. TH-cam kids is a thing for a reason, if parents let their kids on here then they shouldn't be complaining when their kid see's this shit, and i assume you were joking since you said fuck in what you said but i just wanted to say what i said lol
@@Xx0ME0xX Fuckin in the buuttt
Fuckin in the buuuuuttt
Fuckin in the buuuuuuuuuuuuuutt!!!!!!!
Francesco, he was 6'1" and 155 pounds in his youth
Wow, awesome video. Thanks for this.
glad you enjoyed it Jack. thanks for watching
"DAC" tha man of a hundred faces is wat my pa calls him! Every album cover is a different style or look for one of tha freakin greatest song writer's / sanger that never did in my opinion get the recognition for countless songs that he's written and recorded!! Keep on keepin coe!!!!!
The Man paid his dues.
I like this song. It's bluesy
Oh warden
Those early coe albums from the 70s and 80s are too good 🔥
Very Cool
Who's the guy he is talking to?
Billy Joe
Awesome !
Bobby fuckin Charles!!!!
Fucking legend
You're the dog the best of comes around you do what the master says when the master is gone you can always play around
Omg !!!
Who is that DAC is talking to at the beginning? The guy petting the dog.
Adam Levine I think
@@thetreblerebel ????????
@@johnasee2049 yeah...I think I got it wrong....very very wrong
Freddy Fender
Curious as shit myself.. Hell its the reason i just read through all the comments
I'm sorry I don't hear that connection , maybe in his delivery ....maybe
At least try to keep good make the comments here but apparently somebody don't like that so we have to be very cordial what we say so just keep the kids away and let the grown-ups play
Think about it
are you a glowie?
What did he do to land himself in prison?
He was in prison for 3 years for stealing a car and B and E pretty much just being a piece of shit
@@jeffbruner4875 when he was a little kid he was abandoned at a boy’s home and stole a car with other kids when we was still a child and got put in juvi. Then was on parole and got caught with “lewd material” which was a nude pin up in his wallet when he was a teenager and got sent back for 7 years. Don’t know what the last years were for. Does that really make someone a piece of shit?
Who's the guy petting the dog?
Zappa
Who's the dog?
@@francescoavila598 Fido. The crux of the biscuit is the apostrophe.
Bobby Charles
Jonathan Mitchell ... IKR!?🤣 That dog was gettin' a serious massage!🤣