David Allan Coe Took This Job and Shoved Off
Posted: December 6, 2007 12:25 am
Ouch. From today's (December 5, 2007) Washington Post:
David Allan Coe Took This Job and Shoved Off
Wednesday, December 5, 2007; Page C02
Country singer David Allan Coe famously did time in jail -- he says he spent 20 of his first 34 years locked up -- and a check of recent police blotters indicates he seems to have put his lawbreaking ways behind him. Except for stealing his fans' money.
Sunday night at the State Theatre, Coe took the stage at 8:10 and departed at 8:52 after playing an uninterrupted stretch of song snippets accompanied by two guitar-slinging accomplices and a drummer. To its credit, the State Theatre's management reminded Coe backstage of his contractual obligation for a 90-minute show, but the getaway car was already gone.
At $24 a ticket and no opening act, Coe escaped with thousands of his fans' dollars.
It was pretty dry going anyway. Coe, wearing a waist-length blond wig and strands of beaded beard that dangled to his considerable belly, played a flying V-style guitar as he sang into a microphone attached at his throat, thereby immobilizing his head. With the considerable help of his young band, Coe sang the equivalent of the contents of a roadhouse jukebox -- hits by Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard, Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson and others -- and he did it as an aural montage, never finishing a song before blurring into the next.
If he played one of his best-known compositions, "Take This Job and Shove It," a No. 1 hit by Johnny Paycheck, we somehow missed it.
All in all, it was an outrageous show, but for the wrong reasons.
-- Buzz McClain
David Allan Coe Took This Job and Shoved Off
Wednesday, December 5, 2007; Page C02
Country singer David Allan Coe famously did time in jail -- he says he spent 20 of his first 34 years locked up -- and a check of recent police blotters indicates he seems to have put his lawbreaking ways behind him. Except for stealing his fans' money.
Sunday night at the State Theatre, Coe took the stage at 8:10 and departed at 8:52 after playing an uninterrupted stretch of song snippets accompanied by two guitar-slinging accomplices and a drummer. To its credit, the State Theatre's management reminded Coe backstage of his contractual obligation for a 90-minute show, but the getaway car was already gone.
At $24 a ticket and no opening act, Coe escaped with thousands of his fans' dollars.
It was pretty dry going anyway. Coe, wearing a waist-length blond wig and strands of beaded beard that dangled to his considerable belly, played a flying V-style guitar as he sang into a microphone attached at his throat, thereby immobilizing his head. With the considerable help of his young band, Coe sang the equivalent of the contents of a roadhouse jukebox -- hits by Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard, Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson and others -- and he did it as an aural montage, never finishing a song before blurring into the next.
If he played one of his best-known compositions, "Take This Job and Shove It," a No. 1 hit by Johnny Paycheck, we somehow missed it.
All in all, it was an outrageous show, but for the wrong reasons.
-- Buzz McClain
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... and today .... 
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