David Allan Coe: Ex-Convict --- How To Pull Time and Parole

It is debatable whether Coe has had greater success as a singer or in writing songs for other country stars. Tanya Tucker's "Would You Lay with Me" and Johnny Paycheck's "Take This Job and Shove It" are both Coe compositions. As for his own recordings, Coe is perhaps best known for the humorous "You Never Even Called Me by My Name" and "Long-Haired Redneck." Those two hit the top of the country charts during the mid-1970s, but his later work has also received much critical acclaim. Coe's path to country stardom was difficult. Born on September 6, 1939, in Akron, Ohio,Having come from a broken home. it's not surprising  that was sent to a reform school in Michigan when he was nine years old, and then spent most of his youth in several similar facilities. Every time he was released, he managed to do something to get incarcerated again. His early crimes included possession of burglary tools and car theft. Eventually, at the age of 20, Coe began a series of prison terms in the Ohio State Penitentiary. During one of these, he killed a fellow inmate who made homosexual advances towards him. Despite a possible self-defense motive in the incident, Coe was sentenced to death. While on death row he was reunited with his foster father, who had also been convicted of murder.  During his various prison terms, Coe taught himself to play the guitar, and he and his foster father occupied themselves by writing songs. Before their sentences could be carried out, Ohio repealed the death penalty and Coe's term was commuted to life. Thus reprieved, he began to take an even greater interest in his music, and was allowed to perform for his fellow inmates. This constructive activity compelled the parole board to look favorably upon Coe, and he was freed in 1967. Coe headed straight for Nashville, Tennessee, he slept in his old car and sang and played for food, and the rest is, as they say, history.

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