{"id":48818,"date":"2026-05-03T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/?p=48818"},"modified":"2026-05-01T11:03:47","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T15:03:47","slug":"country-music-outlaw-david-allan-coe-dies-at-age-86","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2026\/05\/country-music-outlaw-david-allan-coe-dies-at-age-86\/","title":{"rendered":"Country Music Outlaw David Allan Coe Dies At Age 86"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>David Allan Coe<\/strong>, the controversial outlaw country musician known for hits including &#8220;The Ride,&#8221; &#8220;Mona Lisa Lost Her Smile,&#8221; and &#8220;You Never Even Called Me by My Name,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-country\/david-allan-coe-dead-obituary-1218831\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">passed away at 86. <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Born in Akron, Ohio in 1939, Coe began songwriting in 1960s Nashville for established performers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His breakthrough came when Tanya Tucker&#8217;s version of his composition &#8220;Would You Lay With Me (In a Field of Stone)&#8221; topped country charts in 1973. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Columbia Records signed him afterward, leading to his 1974 debut &#8220;The Mysterious Rhinestone Cowboy.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His 1977 song &#8220;Take This Job and Shove It,&#8221; performed by Johnny Paycheck, reached number one. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Coe&#8217;s career included controversy through his &#8220;X-Rated&#8221; albums, containing offensive content. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Legal issues emerged in 2015 when he pleaded guilty to tax obstruction, receiving three years&#8217; probation and nearly $1 million in IRS payments.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"David Allan Coe, the controversial outlaw country musician known for hits including &#8220;The Ride,&#8221; &#8220;Mona Lisa Lost Her Smile,&#8221; and &#8220;You Never Even Called Me by My Name,&#8221; passed away at 86. Born in Akron, Ohio in 1939, Coe began songwriting in 1960s Nashville for established performers. His breakthrough came when Tanya Tucker&#8217;s version of","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":24446,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[7286,3202,7285,7284],"class_list":["post-48818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-akron","tag-david-allan-coe","tag-johnny-paycheck","tag-take-this-job-and-shove-it"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-11 03:00:26","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country929.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2026\/05\/country-music-outlaw-david-allan-coe-dies-at-age-86\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48818"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48820,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48818\/revisions\/48820"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}