Doug Supernaw Songs - You Never Even Called Me by My Name, What'll You Do about Me, I Don't Call Him Daddy, Reno (Paperback)

Commentary (music and lyrics not included). Chapters: You Never Even Called Me by My Name, What'll You Do About Me, I Don't Call Him Daddy, Reno. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 22. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: "You Never Even Called Me by My Name" is the title of a song written by Steve Goodman and John Prine, produced by Ron Bledsoe, and recorded by country music singer David Allan Coe. It was the third single release of his career, included on his album Once Upon a Rhyme. The song was Coe's first Top Ten hit, reaching a peak of #8 on the Billboard country singles charts. "You Never Even Called Me by My Name" is accompanied mainly by resonator guitar, pedal steel guitar and electric guitar. In the song, the narrator addresses a former lover, who has rejected him to the point that he considers it "useless to remain." The song's final verse is preceded by a recitation in which Coe explains that "a friend of named Steve Goodman" wrote the song and considered it "the perfect country and western song." He goes on to say that Goodman added the final verse after Coe told him that it was not the perfect country song because it "hadn't said anything at all about mama, or trains, or trucks, or prison, or getting drunk." In response to Coe's comment, Goodman wrote a satirical final verse that intentionally uses exaggerations of country music cliches: Well, I was drunk the day my mom got out of prisonAnd I went to pick her up in the rainBut before I could get to the station in my pickup truckShe got runned over by a damned ol' train In the book Whitness: A Critical Reader, author Mike Hill cited the song as an example of Coe being the "'hardest' and most burlesque performer of recent times," adding that the "perverse hokiness" of the song's final verse made it "perfect." Irwin Stambler and ...http: //booksllc.net/?id=25181656