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Topic: Paging David Allan Coe... |
Frank Freniere
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The First Coast
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Posted 19 May 2014 5:09 pm |
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Just flicking thru the FM dial (do people still call it that?) in the car today. There are 2 country stations in the Chicagoland area, one more "today's country" than the other but... I felt like I kept hearing the same song over and over again.
So when I got home I punched up Billboard's Top 10 Country Airplay and darned if 9 of the 10 didn't have "tailgate," "truck," "drink," or some variation, or combination of the three (the Brett Eldredge song was the exception).
I guess David Allan Coe won't have to update "the perfect country song." |
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Bill McCloskey
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Posted 20 May 2014 11:33 am
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| The song You Never EVen Called Me by My Name was actually written by late Stevie Goodman. |
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Dave Hopping
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Aurora, Colorado
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Posted 21 May 2014 8:18 am
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| Gotta ask....Was the bit about "I was drunk the day my Mom got out of prison" from DAC or was that(and the preceding monologue)actually Steve having a little self-referential fun? |
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Bill McCloskey
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Posted 21 May 2014 9:09 am
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Stevie wrote that with help from John Prine.
I used to see Stevie perform in the early 70's and once he did a weeks gig in Boulder . I went every night wearing my Stetson and every night Stevie would borrow my hat to sing that song. The way he would introduce it was: he would sing the song up to the last verse. Then he would say, I wrote this song as a joke but then this guy David Allen Coe wanted to record it straight. So Prine and I wrote this last verse where we added everything that has ever been in every country song. |
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Frank Freniere
From:
The First Coast
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Posted 21 May 2014 11:58 am
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| Seems like not too many songs featuring prison or trains (or Momma) these days, either. |
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Alvin Blaine
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Picture Rocks, Arizona, USA
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Posted 21 May 2014 1:43 pm
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| Bill McCloskey wrote: |
Stevie wrote that with help from John Prine.
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and Jimmy Buffet.
Used to go see Steve Goodman play and he would tell the story of writing that song. Said John Prine, Jimmy Buffet, and himself were in a hotel room and came up with the idea for the song, and couldn't find anything to write down verses on, so they started writing on the hotel room walls. They woke up the next morning with the hotel housekeeping staff trying to scrub the writing off the wall. He claimed there were two dozen more verses, that the maid cleaned off the wall, and they couldn't remember anything from the night before, so the song ended up with the few verses they saved before housekeeping cleaned the whole room.
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Bill McCloskey
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Posted 21 May 2014 2:01 pm
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| That is great. I hadn't heard that or I forgot it. |
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chris ivey
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california (deceased)
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Posted 5 Jun 2014 1:03 pm
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| Alvin Blaine wrote: |
| Bill McCloskey wrote: |
Stevie wrote that with help from John Prine.
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and Jimmy Buffet.
Used to go see Steve Goodman play ... |
alvin, his coolest friends call him 'stevie' evidently! |
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Bill McCloskey
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Posted 6 Jun 2014 7:31 am
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" alvin, his coolest friends call him 'stevie' evidently!"
I don't know about that, but every time I ever saw him perform (philly folk festival each year, Main Point, Tulagi's) everyone always called him Stevie. That is the only name I've ever heard anyone call him, at least when I was following him at the early part of his career around 1971. I saw him perform at least 2 dozen times. Maybe they never even called him by his name.  |
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