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It was written by David Allan Coe, made famous by Johnny Paycheck and became the only song to top the country charts for both men.

George Jones and Johnny Paycheck almost got into a fisticuffs on the side of the road...but Jones had other plans in mind.

When people talk about the Outlaw Country movement of the 1970s, they bring up names like Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings. More informed fans will point to the likes of Billy Joe Shaver and David ...

Nashville, Tennessee - Country singer Johnny PayCheck has died in his sleep.PayCheck had been bedridden in a nursing home last year because of emphysema and asthma. PayCheck was 64.A spokeswoman for ...

Hard-drinking, hard-living country singer Johnny PayCheck, known for more than two dozen hits, particularly the 1977 working man’s anthem “Take This Job and Shove It,” died Tuesday Feb. 18 in a ...

Q: In my younger days, I used to attend every Johnny Paycheck concert in my area. I have more than a dozen of his albums and an autographed picture. I doubt that Johnny Paycheck is his real name. What ...

The outlaw-era voice made a lasting chart footprint with songs that outlived their peak years.

The late Johnny Paycheck was many things: an iconoclastic honky-tonker, a limber country-soul crooner, a self-made musical "outlaw" and a wickedly tragicomic songwriter. He was also a brawler and a ...

Chris Janson lives life like an old school country outlaw. He and his whole family live in Tennessee on a giant farm. He has told me in the past that he was trying to purchase two things for his ...

“Go hard and fast enough so that when you hit the ditch you can pull out the other side.” - Johnny Paycheck “Today will not be different than a hundred yesterdays.” - Johnny Cash There was this ...