AMG Review of 16 Biggest Hits

Stephen Thomas Erlewine
All Music Guide

16 Biggest Hits may be missing some noteworthy songs, but it does provide an excellent summary of David Allan Coe's Columbia recordings between 1974 and 1996. Since it does contain the majority of his best-known songs -- "You Never Even Called Me by My Name," "Would You Lay with Me (In a Field of Stone)," "Long Haired Redneck," "Willie, Waylon and Me," "Now I Lay Me Down to Cheat," "The Ride" -- at a mid-line price, it's an excellent introductory collection.