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David Allan Coe, what a waterfall.
A Tornado, this remarkable figure in his too tight, black jacket. From a distance he had some resemblances with Beethoven, especially without a hat. And such an inspiring man. David Allan Coe the high priest of Country music. Unstoppable by his musical urge he pumps out out after another. Rarely seen in country music, his audience barely has time to catch their breath. I was really excited that I could be at his first performance in Holland, of his first tour in Europe. Only 250 people got to be at the KRO-studio to witness this in person. January 26th 1983: A date never to be forgotten. Everybody else had to be happy with the radio special put together by Lex Tondeur on Friday March 25th. A 2,1/2 hour complication from the KRO Show on the 26th of Januari. David Allen Coe opened the show, by getting behind the piano, and playing the very sensitive song "Johnny Ace" (This is my last letter), a song in which the chorus sounds a lot like "Lonely Boy" from Paul Anka. The song is about a man in prison, (how is that possible). A slow start for David Allan Coe, who is known for his loud musical out bursts, which presentator Ruud Hermans warned his audience. But who -there were only fans, right?- would have had a problem about that. The first couple of songs David did were all slow paced. "Winter Rose", "Argument for Love", "Jody like a melody", "Would you lay with me" and "These days". The Jackson Browne song that David also put on a record. One of the many versions, and a very good one. After that the volume button got turned up, the Dark hat was put on and the Coe band -The Tennessee Hash Band- got to give it a go. Heavy guys with hair down to their shoulders. They could have came straight out of AC/DC or ZZ Top, but play they could. "Willie, Waylon and Me", a Coe classic, followed by "The House we've been Calling home", like on the album "Rides Again", formed one great height of the performance. But in the and the whole performance was one great height. He played more songs of: "Rides Again" -to taste one of his best albums-; "Under Rachel's Wings" and "If that ain't country". A whirlwind of sound went through the KRO-studio, and a waterfall of sparkling country-rock songs. A high speed performance that only in the one hour encore started to drag a bit, because Coe started telling about his life, his wives, his prison life and his experience with record companies. Very interesting of course, but kind of contradicting , since he earlier on stated that he wanted the H.H. journalists to write about David Allan Coe music and not the man. His strongest performance that night was his 15 minute Dylan routine, with songs like "Knocking on heaven's door", "Blowing in the wind", "Lay lady Lay" and "Gotta Serve Somebody". In Dylan style he played a new song "Castles in the sand", Title song for his new out coming album in April this year.(in the states). His imitations and persona's (persiflage's) of other famous country stars like Johnny Cash, Hank Williams, Hank Snow, Ernest Tubb and others were phenomenal. A performance not soon to be forgotten. At the end Gary P. Nunn made an appearance to sing along, the party was complete for all the country-rock lovers. Don't forget to listen to the Radio special(s).
Ton van Bommel.