David Allan Coe, Outlaw Country Icon, Dies

Photo Credit: Rick Kern/WireImage for Shock Ink via Getty Images For more than five decades, David Allan Coe's voice carried the dust of backroads, prison yards, and Nashville honky-tonks, turning rebellion into art and solitude into anthems. Then came a news as sudden and stark as one of his ballads, carrying the weight of a life lived outside the lines. Now, reports are surfacing that the legendary outlaw country singer and songwriter has died. David Allan Coe dies at 86 David Allan Coe, the outlaw country poet whose voice carried fifty years of rebellion, has died at the age of 86. . . .