David Allan Coe

A legend in his own mind, country artist David Allan Coe is a shameless self-promoter whose propensity for name-dropping is as much a trademark as his tattoos and long-haired redneck rebel image. And almost in spite of it all, he also happens to be a genuinely gifted songwriter, albeit a frustratingly inconsistent one.

The Ohio-born Coe emerged on the Nashville scene in the early '70s, calling...