If you don't have a D.A. Coe story, you weren't paying attention

Borepatch noted tonight that he has posted maybe 500 country songs, but he’d never linked to David Alla Coe’s You Never Call Me by My Name. So he left a link.

My guess is ever DA Coe fan has a story to go along with listening to the song somewhere, sometime. Here’s one.

My wife, 1-year-old son and I were driving from Grand Prairie, Texas, to Lake Grapevine to meet up with other n’eer do well newspaper types for Labor Day picnic 1977, a hot day, windows rolled down on my 1970 taxicab yellow Chevrolet Nova, with no air conditioning. I drove over a hill and into the flats below and saw sitting at a stop sign to the right a vinyl top red Cadillac, the driver wearing a straw cowboy hat and a blonde sitting dangerously close. I said to my wife, “Look at that goat roper in the Cadillac.” We got closer, and I could read the license tag: DA COE. Weeell doggies. I said, “Y’all just go ahead on with what you’re doing.”

Here is the borepatch link:

https://borepatch.blogspot.com/2020/11/david-allan-coe-you-never-even-called.html

And the link to Mr. D.A. Coe hisself:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAOVRkSCWmg&feature=emb_logo