- Heads or Tails
- Three Time Loser
- Gone (Like)
- Honey Don't
- Lost
- Merle and Me
- Loving Her (Will Make You Lose Your Mind)
- The Fish Aren't Bitin' Today
- X's and O's (Kisses and Hugs)
- I've Got Something to Say
- Back to Atlanta
- I Could Never Give You Up (For Someone Else)
- Take It Easy Rider
- The Great Nashville Railroad Disaster (A True Story)
- Hank Williams Junior-Junior
- Get a Little Dirt on Your Hands
- If You'll Hold the Ladder (I'll Climb to the Top)
- This Bottle (In My Hand)
- Take This Job and Shove It Too
- Lovin' You Comes So Natural
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Bill Anderson Vocals
Ladysmith Black Mambazo Vocal Harmony
Larry Jon Wilson Vocals
Dickey Betts Guitar
Pete Drake Pedal Steel
Boomer Castleman Banjo
Rattlesnake Annie Vocal Harmony
Dale Seigfreid Guitar
George Jones Vocals
Kris Kristofferson Vocals
Buddy Spicher Fiddle
Guy Clark Vocals
Billy Sherrill Producer
Bonnie Bramlett Composer
Dickey Betts Composer
Rafe Van Hoy Composer
Buzz Rabin Composer
Gerd Weiler Artwork
Phil Wells Transcription
R.A. Andreas Illustrations,Photography
Sylke Holtrop Artwork
Ron Bledsoe Producer
Bobby Braddock Composer
Willem Makkee Mastering
Richard Weize Reissue Producer,Tape Research


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Overview
The pairing of Compass Point and I've Got Something to Say is the oddest of the two-fers issued by Bear Family as volume five in their David Allan Coe Columbia retrospective. On his ninth and tenth albums for Columbia, Coe was still looking for respect from radio program directors in Nash Vegas and nationwide -- and wasn't getting it, despite the ace production team of Billy Sherrill and Ron Bledsoe. Compass Point is the most reflective of Coe's albums in the sense that it seemingly constantly looks back to the previous, and most of that isn't pretty; in fact, it's full of regret and remorse, but the determination to transcend as well. The percussion tracks are straight out of Jimmy Buffett's classic records and the atmospherics are pure Sherrill -- phased guitars and accordions and fiddles shimmering in and out of the mix. Two of the finest songs on the album are "Gone (Like)" and "Loving Her (Will Make You Lose Your Mind)." I've Got Something to Say is Coe's star-guest album -- a blatant attempt for radio airplay (it says so in the liner notes) that doesn't work at all. From the re-recording of "This Bottle (In My Hand)," with George Jones (given that this was recorded in 1980, when Jones was a recently recovering alcoholic, it's tasteless) to the re-recording of "Take This Job and Shove It," done as a reaction to the film of the same name, the songs are more boisterous than inspired. "Take It Easy Rider," with Guy Clark, sounds more confused and lost than anything else, and "Hank Williams Junior-Junior" with the Allman Brothers' Dickey Betts and Kris Kristofferson is a bad -- no, make that terrible -- novelty song. This is the only case in which it is too bad that a very decent outing like Compass Point was paired with such a poor one. ~ Thom Jurek
Product Details
Release Date: | 05/02/1995 |
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Label: | Bear Family Records |
UPC: | 4000127158413 |
Tracks
Album Credits
Performance Credits
David Allan Coe Primary Artist,Guitar,VocalsBill Anderson Vocals
Ladysmith Black Mambazo Vocal Harmony
Larry Jon Wilson Vocals
Dickey Betts Guitar
Pete Drake Pedal Steel
Boomer Castleman Banjo
Rattlesnake Annie Vocal Harmony
Dale Seigfreid Guitar
George Jones Vocals
Kris Kristofferson Vocals
Buddy Spicher Fiddle
Guy Clark Vocals
Technical Credits
David Allan Coe Producer,ComposerBilly Sherrill Producer
Bonnie Bramlett Composer
Dickey Betts Composer
Rafe Van Hoy Composer
Buzz Rabin Composer
Gerd Weiler Artwork
Phil Wells Transcription
R.A. Andreas Illustrations,Photography
Sylke Holtrop Artwork
Ron Bledsoe Producer
Bobby Braddock Composer
Willem Makkee Mastering
Richard Weize Reissue Producer,Tape Research
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