Country music legend David Allan Coe’s final album to be released posthumously

Late country music legend David Allan Coe’s final album will reportedly be released later this year.

The controversial singer’s longtime manager, Ken Madson, told TMZ on Thursday that he owns Coe’s last album and hopes to release it on Sept. 6 – which would have been the “She Used to Love Me a Lot” singer’s 87th birthday.

Although Coe recorded the still-untitled album for a label in 2017, record execs reportedly got “cold feet” and shelved the project.

Madson also told the outlet that Coe’s final album will include previously unreleased songs and new material, including a track called “A Million Reasons.”

Despite owning the record outright, Madson said he still plans to approach Coe’s widow, Kimberly Hastings Coe, about releasing it together.

However, the still-untitled album isn’t the only project David’s loyal fans can look forward to after the “Ride” hitmaker’s death.

Madson revealed that Johnny Knoxville began a documentary about the late country crooner back in 2018. It’s reportedly up to the “Jackass” star, though, to decide if he wants to release the doc.

Madson did not immediately respond to Page Six’s request for comment.

David died at the age of 86 on Wednesday, his rep told the New York Times without sharing any additional details.

“David is a musical treasure,” the rep said. “Even in his years of declining health, David appreciated all of the fans.”

Kimberly, who was Coe’s sixth wife, confirmed her husband’s death further in an emotional statement to Rolling Stone.

“One of the best singers, songwriters, and performers of our time [and] never to be forgotten,” she told the outlet. “My husband, my friend, my confidant and my life for many years. I’ll never forget him and I don’t want anyone else to ever forget him either.”

Although a cause of death has not been confirmed, the “Longhaired Redneck” singer’s health was said to have been declining for years.

David narrowly survived a shocking crash when a semi-truck struck his Suburban at an intersection after he ran a red light at 1:30 a.m. in Florida in 2013, according to the Ocala Star Banner.

While rescuers spent two hours cutting the singer out of the wreckage, he reportedly walked away with broken ribs, bruised kidneys and almost 50 stitches in his head.

Then, in 2021, David was hospitalized for a month after testing positive for COVID.

Remembered as one of the pillars of the outlaw country movement, David was also described as “obscene and racist” by the Times in a scathing 2000 report.

“In the early 80s the outlaw country singer David Allan Coe released very small quantities of two underground albums of songs that are among the most racist, misogynist, homophobic and obscene songs recorded by a popular songwriter,” the outlet wrote.

David, who famously wrote “Take This Job and Shove It” for Johnny Paycheck in 1977, later addressed the accusations in 2004.

“Anyone that would look at me and say I was a racist would have to be out of their mind. I have dreadlocks down to my waist with earrings in both ears and my beard is down to my waist and it is in braids,” he charged, per Entertainment Weekly.

“I am a songwriter, you know, and to me it has always bothered me that actors in the movies can say whatever they want to say, kill people, rape people and do things and no one ever accuses them personally of being that way,” David added. “But when you write a song and then all of a sudden you are being accused of something.”