Mr. Coe, who wrote “Take This Job and Shove It” and other chart-topping hits, was a transgressive exponent of the outlaw country movement of the 1970s and ’80s.
David Allan Coe, the country singer whose outlandish exploits, prison tales and obscenity-laden performances earned him notoriety as a transgressive exponent of the outlaw country movement of the 1970s and ’80s, died on Wednesday. He was 86.
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