MrCoffee
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Fri Sep-01-06 03:22 PM
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you don't have to call me darlin', darlin' |
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you never even call me by my name.
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Fri Sep-01-06 03:23 PM
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break out the coldbeer, it's beer thirty~!!!!!!
you don't have to call me merle haggard
and you don't have to call me charlie pride
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Fri Sep-01-06 03:24 PM
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2. Ah, David Allen Coe... if only he wasn't such a racist shithead... |
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he'd be one of my favorite country artists.
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MrCoffee
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Fri Sep-01-06 03:25 PM
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3. it's still the best damn country song ever |
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Fri Sep-01-06 03:28 PM
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i believe penned those racist lyrics. he and DAC were buds.
shel silverstein wrote the lyrics and music for "boy named sue" as well.
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Fri Sep-01-06 03:28 PM
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5. steve goodman wrote the song |
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Edited on Fri Sep-01-06 03:29 PM by MrCoffee
Coe credits him in the spoken part "My friend Steve Goodman wrote this song"
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Fri Sep-01-06 03:30 PM
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There's a live version of it on No Surprises, Goodman's Anthology and he gives Prine partial credit.
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Fri Sep-01-06 03:30 PM
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Fri Sep-01-06 03:35 PM
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11. I love Goodman and Prine |
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Goodman was a great performer and his live performances on No Surprises with Jethro Burns are awesome. So is his "Dead Girl" medley.
I saw Prine about 2 years ago with Nanci Griffith. Boy, were they down on the Bush administration!
I loved every minute of it.
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Fri Sep-01-06 03:37 PM
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The Great Compromise is such a fantastic song.
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Fri Sep-01-06 03:38 PM
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14. My favorite is Paradise |
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and Christmas in Prison is great as well.
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Fri Sep-01-06 03:30 PM
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7. he also said he was from "dallas texas" in willie waylon and me |
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Edited on Fri Sep-01-06 03:31 PM by datasuspect
and he's really from ohio.
i'm referring to the more explicit songs which ruined his career.
dac was a hot property in the early 70s, the original "rhinestone cowboy" and wrote songs for many country artists.
his "dirty albums" effectively made him a pariah.
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Fri Sep-01-06 03:31 PM
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9. steve goodman on ACL had the funniest line ever... |
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"I got a free calendar in the mail from the bank the other day, and i was looking at it, and i didn't realize how late it was."
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Fri Sep-01-06 03:47 PM
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18. Somewhere on an old computer |
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I saved a blurb from a website where Prine explains the origens of the song. It was written when he and Goodman went to New York for the first time. Goodman got pissed because Prine filled the bathtub up with ice for beer. Goodman wrote a song to ease his pain and the rest is history.
Too lazy to look it up again since, well, I'm getting drunk.
The first time I heard it was when I was 12 and Goodman was the opening act for Steve Martin. They probably don't keep records on this sort of thing but I'm guessing it's the song most often played during bars last calls.
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Fri Sep-01-06 03:50 PM
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19. when i was at UTexas, we took a weekend trip to New Orleans... |
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and were bar hopping in the Quarter. We walked into one bar, and they had a karaoke setup, and up on stage, singing this damn song, was a guy i went to high school with back in houston. very surreal.
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Fri Sep-01-06 03:34 PM
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10. I don't know what song you're referring to... |
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All the Johnny Rebel stuff may or may not be David Allen Coe -- there's a couple others who have more likely claims.
But it's indisputable that Coe wrote and recorded 1982's "Nigger Fucker" on his Underground album. I'm not gonna post the lyrics, I think the title speaks for itself.
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Fri Sep-01-06 03:36 PM
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12. johnny rebel was an actual guy from louisiana |
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and has nothing to do with DAC.
but shel silverstein helped him out with the song (and others) you mentioned.
seriously
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Fri Sep-01-06 03:43 PM
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15. Huh. First I've heard of that. Silverstein isn't credited on the album... |
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though I'm certainly familiar with Silverstein as a songwriter, not just for Boy Named Sue, but also tunes by Loretta Lynn, Dr. Hook, etc.
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Fri Sep-01-06 03:46 PM
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16. there's a lot of data scrubbing where that is concerned |
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i don't think anyone would WANT to be associated with that.
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Fri Sep-01-06 03:46 PM
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17. You need trains, trucks, prison, mama, and gettin' drunk. |
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Edited on Fri Sep-01-06 03:46 PM by Bunny
Well I was drunk the day my mom got out of prison...
It is the perfect country and western song!
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