Coe's ''X-Rated Hits'' even make Eminem's heavily attacked recent album seem tenderhearted. Coe is better known for writing: Johnny Paycheck's ''Take This Job and Shove It,'' Tanya Tucker's ''Would You Lay With Me (In a Field of Stone)'' and his own hits like ''The Ride'' and ''Willie, Waylon and Me.'' In fact many of Mr. Coe's ''X-Rated Hits'' CD, he rails against white women who sleep with black men, singing that it makes him want to throw up in another, the chorus has it that some blacks ''never die/They just smell that way.'' The lyrics are a far cry from the songs Mr.
Some music fans are wondering how Kid Rock, who has collaborated with black rappers and has made a living through appropriating their music, can be touring with a songwriter responsible for blatantly antiblack material. The pair also recently recorded several songs together in a Detroit studio. Coe to be an opening act on his current tour, which ended Friday. Coe is being exposed to a new audience, thanks to the Detroit rap-metal star Kid Rock, who invited Mr.
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He is selling the songs on one CD on his own Web site for $45 plus shipping ($25 for cassette), though he refuses to put his name on the disc or packaging.Īll of this comes as Mr. Coe, who has long distanced himself from the music and toned down his act for his last record deal with Sony/Lucky Dog, has decided to start making money from the old music anyway. The show will air live from the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville Wednesday, November 8th at 7:00 PM central time (8:00 PM eastern time) on ABC.In the early 80's the outlaw country singer David Allan Coe released very small quantities of two underground albums of songs that are among the most racist, misogynist, homophobic and obscene songs recorded by a popular songwriter.īootlegged by fans and college fraternity members for years, those songs have recently been stirring up new trouble on the Internet: they are being passed around as e-mail files accompanied by sexually explicit and racist animation and they are being posted as computer files on Web sites like Mr. Watch the music video for the song by Florida Georgia Line here.įlorida Georgia Line is nominated for Vocal Duo of the Year at the 51st CMA Awards Show that will be co-hosted for the 10th year by Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood. “Smooth” is currently at #18 and climbing on both the Billboard Country Airplay and Mediabase/Country Aircheck singles charts. How does Brian feel about the finished product of the song? “It’s something that it’s a little swampy, it’s a little woodsy and it’s right where we’re at,” he explains, adding, “It’s really fun to play live.” “We just wrote real hard that day and had a lot of fun,” Brian admits. While Jordan brought the track, it was Nicole that had the catalyst to the lyrics, “Nicole had the title for ‘Smooth,’ I remember that,” Brian shares, “I remember Tyler came in with that hook on the chorus, ‘Good Lord Almighty,’ and that kind of got us going down the chorus.” He explains it was the first time that the just these for songwriters got together, “It was a beautiful kind of chilly day, and I remember I had told Jordan to make kind of a modern day ‘Fishin’ in the Dark’ track and he showed up with that track.”
Florida Georgia Line is climbing the charts with their latest single “ Smooth” and the duo’s Brian Kelley says the song has a Nitty Gritty Dirt Band influence to it.īrian recalls when he and his duo partner Tyler Hubbard wrote the song, “We wrote that late in the fall out at Tyler’s farm with Nicole Clawson and George Schmidt, one of our good buddies.”
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