Country Singer David Allan Coe Convicted of Tax Evasion (must now pay $980+K)

[Miles Archer]

I had a friend in Nevada who's a professional musician, and he played in Coe's touring band for a while. He described him as mean, abusive, and a guy who couldn't hold his alcohol. The last paragraph below was news to me but comes as no surprise. See below the main story for details.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/david-allan-coe-convicted-of-tax-evasion-20160615

David Allan Coe, one of the more infamous characters of the Outlaw Movement, has been sentenced to three years probation for tax evasion. In addition, a federal court in Cincinnati has ordered the 76-year-old Ohio native to pay close to $1 million in back taxes to the IRS. In 2015, Coe pleaded guilty to impeding and obstructing the administration of tax laws.

According to federal prosecutors, Coe earned income from touring from 2008 through 2013, but didn't pay taxes or, in some cases, even file his income tax. In a 2015 story about Coe's tax woes, the Cincinnati Enquirer reported that the "You Never Even Called Me By My Name" singer would only accept payment for his concerts in cash, and never fifties — he thought the Grant-stamped bills were "bad luck and would not gamble with them."

Coe, who is set to perform Tuesday in Connecticut, is known for country and Southern rock songs like "Longhaired Redneck," "Willie, Waylon and Me" and the Hank Williams tribute "The Ride." He also penned Johnny Paycheck's signature hit "Take This Job and Shove It," and recorded and released a series of X-rated — and often racist — underground songs.

Coe must now pay $980,911.86 for the years in question.

Songwriter's Racist Songs From 1980's Haunt Him
By NEIL STRAUSS
Published: September 4, 2000

http://www.nytimes.com/2000/09/04/arts/songwriter-s-racist-songs-from-1980-s-haunt-him.html

Bootlegged 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 www.whitesonly.net.

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. 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.

All of this comes as Mr. Coe is being exposed to a new audience, thanks to the Detroit rap-metal star Kid Rock, who invited Mr. Coe to be an opening act on his current tour, which ended Friday. The pair also recently recorded several songs together in a Detroit studio. 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.

In one song on 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. 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'' even make Eminem's heavily attacked recent album seem tenderhearted.

[Initech]

1. Does he hang out with Willie Nelson by any chance?

[tenderfoot]

2. No. Kid Rock.

In 2000, Coe toured as the opening act for Kid Rock, and The New York Times published an article by journalist Neil Strauss, who described the material on Nothing Sacred and Underground Album as "among the most racist, misogynist, homophobic and obscene songs recorded by a popular songwriter." Coe maintains that he wrote to Strauss during the writing of the article, but the journalist did not acknowledge any interaction between the two, only stating that Coe's manager refused to speak on the record.

In 2003, Coe wrote a song for Kid Rock, Single Father, which appeared on Kid Rock's self-titled album, and was released as a single, which peaked at No. 50 on the Billboard Country Singles chart.

[Recursion]

3. So I'll avoid taxes, as long as you will let me

And I never minded standin' in the rain
But you don't have to call me darllin', Darlin'
You can now address me as Prisoner #19383842

[Mendocino]

4. The only difference between Coe

and a turd is that he has arms and legs.

[dembotoz]

5. sing it david.>>>Oh the irs took my mansion and my favorite dog and now i am poor like you......