Looking for a real original and a singer who’s truly done it his way with a take-no-prisoners attitude in tow?

Well, look no further than David Allan Coe, who’s as outlaw country as it gets and, as he moves closer to 70, comes to Texarkana Wednesday night to pay respects to local fans and maybe win some new ones.

Coe plays at Shooters, which hosts Hollywood-style glam metal bands earlier in the week.

About as unvarnished and rough as it gets, though, is Coe, whose first album, “Penitentiary Blues,” came out in 1969, full of songs the outlaw troubadour penned in prison. Coe soon moved on from that blues album to Columbia Records and fame in the country and western realm, though he’s always defined his music his own way.

Through the years, Coe has written many well-known songs, as well as promoted himself and his work to no end—not without controversy and not without a hardknockin’ image of himself to cultivate. But truthfully, he’s also been through the wringer in his life.

A number of country music legends have recorded his songs—among them, Tammy Wynette, Johnny Paycheck, Willie Nelson, Kid Rock, Tanya Tucker and The Oak Ridge Boys.

“Take This Job and Shove It” and “Would You Lay With Me (in a Field of Stone)” are just two of the songs he’s famous for writing. And with Steve Goodman he wrote “You Never Even Call Me By My Name.”

In Texarkana on Wednesday, this true legend will take to the stage for generations both old and new.



(Tickets: $20 before the show and $25 at the door. Show starts at 9:30 p.m. Info: 870-773-4903.)