David Allan Coe is an American outlaw country

Outlaw country

Outlaw country is a subgenre of country music, most popular during the late 1960s and the 1970s , sometimes referred to as the outlaw movement or simply outlaw music...

 music singer who achieved popularity in the 1970s and 1980s. He has written and performed over 280 original songs throughout his career. As a singer, his biggest hits were "Mona Lisa Lost Her Smile

Mona Lisa Lost Her Smile

"Mona Lisa Lost Her Smile" is the title of a song written by Johnny Cunningham and recorded by David Allan Coe. It was the first single from Coe's 1984 album Just Divorced, and was released to radio in early 1984. The song is Coe's highest-charting single, with a peak of number two on the U.S...

," "The Ride

The Ride (song)

"The Ride" is the title of a song written by Gary Gentry and J.B. Detterline Jr., and recorded by American country singer-songwriter David Allan Coe. It was released in February 1983 as the lead single from the album, Castles in the Sand...

," "You Never Even Called Me by My Name

You Never Even Called Me by My Name

"You Never Even Called Me by My Name" is the title of a song written by Steve Goodman and John Prine, produced by Ron Bledsoe, and recorded by country music singer David Allan Coe. It was the third single release of his career, included on his album Once Upon a Rhyme...

," "She Used to Love Me a Lot

She Used to Love Me a Lot

"She Used to Love Me a Lot" is the title of a song recorded by American country music artist David Allan Coe. It was released in December 1984 as the lead single from Coe's album Darlin', Darlin. The song peaked at number 11 on both the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles chart and the Canadian RPM...

," and "Longhaired Redneck

Longhaired Redneck (song)

"Longhaired Redneck" is the title of a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist David Allan Coe. It was released in January 1976 as the lead single from Coe's album of the same name. The song peaked at number 17 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles chart and at number 23...

." His best-known compositions are the #1 successes "Would You Lay With Me (In a Field of Stone)

Would You Lay with Me (In a Field of Stone) (song)

"Would You Lay with Me " is the title track from Tanya Tucker's third album and was written by David Allan Coe. It was released in December 1973 as a single, it topped the U.S. country chart on March 30, 1974, for one week to become Tucker's third number-one song on the chart. On the Billboard Hot...

," which was covered by Tanya Tucker

Tanya Tucker

Tanya Denise Tucker is a female American country music artist who had her first hit, "Delta Dawn", in 1972 at the age of 13...

; and "Take This Job and Shove It

Take This Job and Shove It

"Take This Job and Shove It" is a song by David Allan Coe from his 1978 album, Family Album about the bitterness of a man who worked long and hard with no apparent reward. The song was famously covered by Johnny Paycheck...

," which was later covered by Johnny Paycheck

Johnny Paycheck

Johnny Paycheck was the legal name of Donald Eugene Lytle , a country music singer and Grand Ole Opry member most famous for recording the David Allan Coe song "Take This Job and Shove It"...

 that was later a hit movie (both Coe and Paycheck had minor parts in the film).
Coe was born in Akron, Ohio

Akron, Ohio

Akron , is the fifth largest city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Summit County. It is located in the Great Lakes region approximately south of Lake Erie along the Little Cuyahoga River. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 199,110. The Akron Metropolitan...

 on September 6, 1939.