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David Allan Coe - Underground Album (1982)

Topics: Country, country rock, outlaw country

Underground Album is the 21st studio album by American country musician David Allan Coe. It was released as a mail order album, not sold in stores, only through the back pages of the motorcycling magazine Easyriders and in the concession stand at his shows.^[1] Underground Album is Coe's follow-up to his 1978 album Nothing Sacred.

The album was generally criticized as being profane, racist, and crude.^[3]^[4] AllMusic, which did not review the album, gave it three out of five stars.^[2] "Nigger Fucker" resulted in Coe being accused of racism.^[4]^[5] Neil Strauss described the album's material as "among the most racist, misogynist, homophobic and obscene songs recorded by a popular songwriter."^[6] The lyrics included lines such as "And to think I'd ate the pussy / Where that big, black dick had been / And kissed the lips that sucked him off / Time and time again / It's enough to make a man throw up / Sure is hard to figure / How any decent girl could ever fuck / A greasy nigger." Coe responded to the accusations by stating "Anyone that hears this album and says I'm a racist is full of shit".^[7] He also stated that he contacted Strauss during the writing of the article, but Strauss only acknowledged talking to Coe's manager, who would only comment off the record.