Talk:David Allan Coe

message: I deleted "Leroy the big lipped nigger" from his discography.  That's one as wrong as attributing The Gourd's cover of Gin and Juice to Phish. 
Moved from the article: after the sentence Exposure to any one of these songs by itsself might convince the listener he is completely prejudiced but a more extensive study would show he most likely intended on offending everyone equally. the following was added anonymously
:What the hell does this last sentence mean? Sure he offends everyone equally if you mean everyone EXCEPT other racist, sexist and homophobic white males. This last subsection surely would not be offended.
::Is he homophobic? He sang against Anita Bryant, who campaigned against gay adoption.  -LtNOWIS 03:35, 24 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Racist, Sexist, Homophobic?

message: (Coe also fumed about Glen Campbell's success with the song "Rhinestone Cowboy".)
Um...maybe some citation for this, otherwise I think it should be deleted...x_C.H. 00:13, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Glen Campbell Controversy

message: I love David Allan Coe's music.  But boy does he have the tendency to tell some REAL whoppers!  At 3 concerts I was at he said he wrote the song "Rollin' in My Sweet Baby's Arms".  That song was first recorded in the 30s, I think.  He also claimed in one of his books to have had a black guitarist named "Jim" in his band in the 60s, and by golly, that turned out to be Jimi Hendrix.  He also mentions that he was friends with Charles Manson in reform school.  There are more but I can't think of them right now.
Musicians performing at concerts are there to entertain the crowd, therefore anything they say during those those times shouldn't be taken seriously. It would be lying if he made those claims during an interview to the media. MoonLoaf (talk) 01:30, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: This should be re-written: "Napster added to the confusion regarding Coe's racist songs by mislabeling offensive works by other artists, especially Johnny Rebel, whose songs are often mistakenly attributed to Coe." That is incorrect. Napster didn't label anything. Individual users of the Napster service might have mis-labeled songs that wound up in Napster's database, but Napster had nothing to do with that. K8 fan (talk) 06:16, 5 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  How about mentioning DAC's lies in the controversy section? 

message: Just out of curiosity, why did David Allan Coe "fume" over Glen Campbell's success with the song "Rhinestone Cowboy"???? I missed it before it was deleted, and I'm curious. Anyone?  Duprees62 18:25, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Glen Campbell and Rhinestone Cowboy

message: I just wanted to point out that "The Rodeo Song" is neither written by, or made famous by DAC. It was written by Gaye Delorme and performed by the Canadian group Showdown.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.50.33.110 (talk) 20:53, 24 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Rodeo Song is not DAC 

message: Recently attended a concert; has he had a stroke?  At the end he was helped off the stage and used a four prong cane.
Larry  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.251.31.98 (talk) 02:12, 3 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  David Allan Coe; Health 

message: I've added a section about a growing underground fraternity at Spring Hill College in Mobile, of which I am a graduate. The organization and faculty sponsor have gathered quite a following and travels to every Coe concert within 500 miles (sometimes further). Like most fraternities it is a glorified drinking club, but has many facets and mechanics of normal fraternities. Jones629 (talk) 19:03, 28 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: The student-written article says 35 members of the "glorified drinking club" showed up at a pledge drive attended by the subject of the column, a college professor. This is an unreliable source for a non-notable group at a non-event, and does not belong in an encyclopedic biography, even if they attend every David Allan Coe performance in Alabama. I'm sure plenty of frats go to concerts; they don't get their own Wikipedia section. Blackguard 00:12, 1 March 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: So an encyclopedic biography shouldn't mention a "frat" that was founded specifically to support David Allan Coe? I'm not objecting Blackguard because I see your (rudely put) point. Perhaps when the group gains a good deal more notoriety and a more substantial membership base, it can be included. Jones629 (talk) 03:26, 1 March 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, an encyclopedic biography shouldn't mention a frat such as you described merely because one exists.  It must have significance to the article; the article should be incomplete without such a mention.  The policy regarding this is laid out in the policy guidelines WP:HTRIV and WP:UNDUE, where it is specified, among other things, that items in an article must meet criteria of significance or meaning and not be merely vaguely interesting peripheral matters.  WP is, of course, crowded with examples of the disregard of these guidelines, but that is not of itself permission to overlook them.  I hope this helps. Monkeyzpop (talk) 06:17, 1 March 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks.Jones629 (talk) 15:48, 1 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fraternity 

message: Nothing Sacred and Underground Album link to article. Mitch3000 04:19, 13 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Invalid links 

message: I am Jessi on David's Song, "House We've Been Callin' Home."  I've read the articles on him and he is not a psycopath, believe me.  He's very nice and I've known him since I was 18.  We met at the Texas Opry House in Houston, TX in 1970's!  From then I was always on his guest list at Guilley's and The Nesadel in Pasadena or wherever he played.  I helped him at a hotel once, but never slept with him, and he told me at a Nesadel concert that "Your going with me on the bus when we leave" and to "go sell his T-shirts with MeeMee" and I did.
During the concert I asked MeeMee for a break and went up by the stage to see him and a friend of his (a biker) hit on me and I told him no and he got real mad and told me to get back their with the rest of the c's!  I was so upset I sat at a table and had a drink for a bit and when the show was over Dave got on the bus and I didn't get on.  I didn't see him for about 6 months and left for Los Angeles.  David called my moms home in Highlands, TX at the time and she told him I was gone.
I saw him last with my husband of 17 yrs at him and Willie Nelson's last concert in 2007 where I lived at the time, personal, and we went backstage and took pictures..they are posted on my FaceBook page and my husband took them.  He asked Kim to marry him the following year and I'm very happy for them.
There was a lot of controversy I read online about his song, "House We've Been Callin' Home" that my name is in that he had three wives..this is not true.  He's only had one wife at a time!  He's a good man and I'll always love him as a friend.
So that is the story of me and Davied Allan Coe.
All u people that put him down are wrong; if you don't have something nice to say..don't say it!
Respectfully, Jessi Jennings aka Geri Fedorovich — Preceding unsigned comment added by JessiJennings (talk • contribs) 14:21, 29 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  David Allan Coe's Song House We've Been Callin' Home on DACoe's Rides Again Album 

message: The mistake in having a section in articles for "controversies" is that musicians are not known for controversial events or lyrics, they are known for their music, and creating an entire section to focus solely on minor aspects of their life violates WP:NPOV. I deleted the exaggerations and untruths and merged the stuff about his underground albums into his biography, which is how these aspects of Coe's life and career should be treated. WTF (talk) 14:00, 22 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Controversy 

message: I added a navbox, hope it helps with this article.  I'm sure many additions could be made to the related articles but I'm also not the DAC expert, any additions there would be appreciated.  Should all the compilations remain in the navbox or would it be better to not include them? UselessToRemain (talk) 23:50, 3 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Navbox 

message: Why is there no information about him being Mormon?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.44.56.161 (talk) 16:07, 17 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mormon 

message: In 1970-1971 I lived in Cleveland, and Eli Radish, featuring bass player/bandleader Danny Sheridan (who would go on to have a moderately illustrious career) was one of my favorite bands.  They played a kind of proto-country rock influenced by Gram Parsons and the Youngbloods.  It's a long time ago, but I pretty clearly remember DAC playing in Eli Radish, either as a band member or as a guest.  If this is correct it should be in the article. 67.173.10.34 (talk) 00:26, 21 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Relationship with Eli Radish and Danny Sheridan 

message: Wikipedia's credibility is damaged by citing purely, purely editorial content from a publication such as allmusic. As I type this in May 2016 there are numerous references to allmusic.
Cite Rolling Stone. Cite any _printed_ sold-on-a-newstand newspaper. Cite Saturday Review or any _printed_ magazine. But an online popularity opinion website like allmusic? It should have no place in wikipedia.
After all, this is not a fan page, this is an encyclopedia entry.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.119.141.15 (talk) 00:48, 13 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  What is allmusic doing in an encyclopedia? 

message: Hello all. A report on WP:ANI prompted me to look at the external links on this page, and I've removed all of them. One was a dead link, two of them went to a website that appears to have been set up to either impersonate or attack the subject of the article, one was to a closed facebook group, and one was to an attack Twitter account. Someone has asserted that "http://www.legendarydavidallancoe.com/" is the correct official website for this person. If so, I'd be happy to get it back in the article, but given the controversy I'd rather see some more evidence first. I've tried googling his name, but Google was linking to the same official site as we were (probably because we were...). Is anyone able to track down any reliable evidence of what his website is? I don't want to just link to another website for bootleg merch... ST47 (talk) 18:22, 19 August 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you for looking into this.  - FlightTime (open channel) 18:23, 19 August 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  External Links 

message: Can we get a much stronger edit of this? It’ll be a lot of work, but this page is incredibly biased in favor of Coe. 76.94.5.208 (talk) 05:00, 4 December 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Probably not, since reading through it appears that the Controversy section has been added and removed multiple times. The last one appears to have possibly been in bad faith. It states that musicians shouldn't have Controversy sections because they're known for their music, not their controversies. You could say that the same thing about most celebrities with Wikipedia pages. If I go to Hartley Sawyer's page, there's a subsection about his controversy so anyone looking for that can find it easily. Doesn't mean it's the primary thing he's known for. In reality, I didn't know who Coe was until I heard about the racism allegations today, and it was a pain to find because of how hard people have worked to hide it in the longer text. It should have its own section or at least subsection. But really, this page reads more like it's written by his fan club or lawyer than by anyone who values encyclopedic standards. 2603:8080:6400:FF8A:99D:F4EB:3D4C:750B (talk) 03:31, 6 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  This article reads like a fan page