Requiem for a Harlequin

Requiem for a Harlequin
Studio album by David Allan Coe
Released 1970
Length 26:54
Label Plantation
David Allan Coe chronology
Penitentiary Blues
(1969)
Requiem for a Harlequin
(1970)
The Mysterious Rhinestone Cowboy
(1974)
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Requiem for a Harlequin is the second album released by David Allan Coe. It was released in 1970 on Plantation Records. There are no track names; side one was simply named, "The Beginning" and side two, "The End". This is a concept album in which Coe repeatedly uses the phrase "Asphalt Jungle" to describe the life he grew up in.

Contents

Reception

Kylo-Patrick R. Hart wrote that Requiem for a Harlequin "further solidified Coe as a talented songwriter."[2]

Track listing

All songs written by David Allan Coe

The Beginning

  1. "[Untitled]" – 1:52
  2. "[Untitled]" – 3:00
  3. "[Untitled]" – 2:35
  4. "[Untitled]" – 1:40
  5. "[Untitled]" – 2:35
  6. "[Untitled]" – 4:50

The End

  1. "[Untitled]" – 3:44
  2. "[Untitled]" – 1:43
  3. "[Untitled]" – 2:00
  4. "[Untitled]" – 1:29
  5. "[Untitled]" – 1:26

References

  1. ^ Allmusic
  2. ^ Mediated deviance and social otherness: interrogating influential representations Kylo-Patrick R. Hart p. 181 ISBN 1847182453