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DISCID=8407070b
DTITLE=David Allan Coe / Penitentiary Blues
DYEAR=1970
DGENRE=Country
TTITLE0=Penitentiary Blues
TTITLE1=Cell #33
TTITLE2=Monkey David Wine
TTITLE3=Walkin' Bum
TTITLE4=One Way Ticket To Nowhere
TTITLE5=Funeral Parlor Blues
TTITLE6=Death Row
TTITLE7=Oh Warden
TTITLE8=Age 21
TTITLE9=Little David
TTITLE10=Conjer Man
EXTD=Originally Released 1970\nCD Edition Released August 23, 2005\n\n
EXTD=AMG EXPERT REVIEW: David Allan Coe's debut album, released in 196
EXTD=9 shortly after his release from prison, is in its way a wonder. 
EXTD=Penitentiary Blues is far more a blues album than it is a country
EXTD= record, musically styled after the dark, loungy blues of Charlie
EXTD= Rich and Jerry Lee Lewis in his Mercury period as well as the ra
EXTD=wer mercurial blues of Bo Diddley, Lightnin' Hopkins, and Tony Jo
EXTD=e White. The subject matter is far darker and foreshadows the sub
EXTD=jects and themes of Coe's later country records. The title cut me
EXTD=ntions everything from working for the first time to taking blood
EXTD= tests in his heroin veins. "Cell 33" is a wide-open rocking shuf
EXTD=fle with Jerry Lee Lewis piano coming out of the backdrop of a mu
EXTD=ddy mix and playing solo after choogling guitar riff over lines l
EXTD=ike: "They'll find me hangin' here tomorrow/If they don't come wi
EXTD=th the key." Musically, Coe was wrapped in the blues, particularl
EXTD=y the barroom tradition. At the time, his band was clearly not ca
EXTD=pable of handling the more sophisticated honky tonk songs he woul
EXTD=d be writing shortly thereafter, some appearing on his next recor
EXTD=ding, Requiem for a Harlequin. This is redneck music, pure and si
EXTD=mple, fresh out of hell and trying to communicate the giddiness o
EXTD=f reprieve as well as its horrors to the listener. There's an obs
EXTD=ession with hoodoo imagery and death, with self-loathing and boas
EXTD=ting, and the contradictions in a man who doesn't want to go back
EXTD= to prison but who seems resigned to the fact he will because he'
EXTD=s been inside so long (for Coe it was almost 20 years), he has no
EXTD= idea how to live on the outside. There are hints and traces of t
EXTD=he lyrical genius Coe would display later, but taken as a whole, 
EXTD=Penitentiary is thoroughly enjoyable as a rowdy, funky, and crude
EXTD= blues record full of out-of-tune guitars, slippery performances,
EXTD= and an attitude of "f*%$ it, let's get it done and get it out," 
EXTD=which was a trademark of Plantation Records during the era. Penit
EXTD=entiary Blues is a set of voodoo blues from a future country lege
EXTD=nd and pariah.  -- Thom Jurek\n\nAmazon.com Product Description\n
EXTD=Deluxe Reissue Of The Debut Album From This Influential Country R
EXTD=enegade...On CD For The First Time Ever! An Album So Outlaw It Wa
EXTD=s Written Behind Bars \nDavid Allan Coe is one of the most popula
EXTD=r and controversial figures in modern country music. It's ironic 
EXTD=then that his debut album, Penitentiary Blues, wasn't a country a
EXTD=lbum at all, but a blues album through and through. Though it rec
EXTD=eived only limited distribution upon its 1968 release, it has ach
EXTD=ieved cult-classic status. Shout! Factory, in association with Ha
EXTD=ckTone Records, is proud to release Penitentiary Blues on CD for 
EXTD=the first time. The packaging mimics the original die-cut album c
EXTD=over, and in addition to a booklet with notes by Grammy-winner Co
EXTD=lin Escott, we have put together a bonus booklet consisting of ex
EXTD=cerpts from Coe's legendary self-published book, EX-Convict. The 
EXTD=result is the ultimate edition of this prison classic. \n\nAMAZON
EXTD=.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW\nBlues-soaked debut written in prison, Augus
EXTD=t 24, 2005\nReviewer: redtunictroll (Earth, USA)\nCoe's 1969 debu
EXTD=t has become quite the collectable over the years, sought after b
EXTD=y his fans as much for its rarity as for its raw look at the song
EXTD=writer's roots. Written primarily while serving his final stint o
EXTD=f prison time (3 years at Marion), its both a punctuation mark on
EXTD= the end of 20 years of off-and-mostly-on incarceration, and the 
EXTD=launching point for Coe's entire musical career. \n\nRecorded in 
EXTD=Nashville for Shelby Singleton's SSS label (a sister to the Plant
EXTD=ation label on which Singleton had cleaned up with Jeannie C. Ril
EXTD=ey), the basic blues lineup of guitar, bass, drums and harmonica 
EXTD=hardly predicts Coe's later success in Country music circles. Yet
EXTD=, the raw-to-the-bone songs of prison life's hardships weren't al
EXTD=l that different from those lamenting the circumstance of poor mo
EXTD=untain dwellers and displaced Okies, and Coe's notion of an ex-co
EXTD=n's worth clearly informed later successes like "Take This Job an
EXTD=d Shove It." \n\nThese tales from the inside are more Leadbelly t
EXTD=han Cash, and the music has more in common with Jerry Lee's post-
EXTD=Rock 'n' Roll blues sides (mixed with Screamin' Jay Hawkins' hall
EXTD=ucinatory hoodoo imagery) than anything Nashville was producing i
EXTD=n 1969. Coe's prison tattoo of an album didn't even acknowledge t
EXTD=he system that was bucked seven years later by Waylon & Willie. \n
EXTD=\nHackTone's deluxe CD reissue (the first legitimate CD issue for
EXTD= this title in its 36 year history) reproduces the album's origin
EXTD=al die-cut prison bars cover in digipack form, includes informati
EXTD=ve new liner notes from Colin Escott, and adds a telling excerpt 
EXTD=from Coe's self-published book "Ex-Convict." [(c)2005 redtunictro
EXTD=ll at hotmail dot com]\n\n\nHalf.com Details \nProducer: David Al
EXTD=lan Coe (Reissue), Shelby Singleton Jr., Teddy Paige \n\nAlbum No
EXTD=tes\nPersonnel: David Allan Coe (vocals); Teddy Paige (guitar, ha
EXTD=rmonica); Mac Gayden, Charlie McCoy (guitar, bass guitar); Ed Kol
EXTD=lis (harmonica); David Briggs (piano); Billy Linneman, William C.
EXTD= Sanders (bass guitar); Kenneth Buttrey, Karl Himmel (drums).\n\n
EXTD=Recording information: Singleton Sound Studios, Nashville, Tennes
EXTD=see.\n\nDavid Allan Coe is widely known as one of the poster boys
EXTD= for 1970s Outlaw Country, and on PENITENTIARY BLUES, his debut a
EXTD=lbum, Coe's patented bad-boy image was already fully formed. Musi
EXTD=cally, however, he was entrenched firmly in an urban blues mode, 
EXTD=as opposed to the honky-tonk infused sound of his best-known albu
EXTD=ms. Nevertheless, his lyrics espouse his trademark themes of pris
EXTD=on, trouble, and hard living.\n\nIndustry Reviews\n3 stars out of
EXTD= 5 - [T]he record makes its mark, raw and rugged, and punctuated 
EXTD=with bouts of crazy loon laughter.\n\n3 stars out of 5 - [T]hese 
EXTD=songs rail like the spooked soul of a man with nothing left to lo
EXTD=se.
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