Despite this album's title and David Allan Coe's reputation as the baddest of '70s country music's bad boys, the singer soft-pedals the bad-ass quotient here. Coe's infamous rough-and-tumble side is expressed most obviously on a pair of self-penned tunes, the rocking, self-explanatory "Fuzzy Was an Outlaw," and the holy-hooker narrative "Mary Magdeline," where Coe places the tale of Jesus in a modern setting a la Kris Kristofferson.