Perhaps one of country music's most under-appreciated vocal stylists, Johnny Paycheck receives the star treatment with "The Soul & the Edge: The Best of Johnny Paycheck," due April 30 on… By Billboard ...

For fans of the 1978 hit, “Take This Job and Shove It,” the first name that comes to mind is often singer Johnny Paycheck, who took it to Number One for two weeks. But that would not have been ...

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 ...

The country music world is a small one. This is especially true when one looks into the history of the genre. It’s not rare to see seemingly odd pairings. For instance, Waylon Jennings and Buddy Holly ...

Looking at the world through a tour-bus windshield as you make your way through an endless series of one-night stands-it`s the universal complaint of country singers. But as he crisscrosses the ...

Country singer Johnny Paycheck, best known for his 1977 hit song "Take This Job and Shove It," died Tuesday in his sleep in a Nashville nursing home of emphysema and diabetes, among other problems… By ...

Johnny PayCheck, one of the most influential country singers of the last 40 years and yet for stretches of his career a Nashville pariah who became more famous for what he did spectacularly wrong than ...

The only thing phony about Johnny PayCheck was his name. Everything else — the scowl, the scorched edge to the voice — was authentic, as honest as an insult and as blunt as an uppercut. PayCheck, the ...

Outlaw country star Johnny Paycheck was in and out of trouble with the law for much of his life, and maybe in at least one case, that's a good thing. Paycheck was still a big star when Dean Dillon and ...

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 ...

Johnny Paycheck found radio success intermittently throughout his five decades as a country music singer. The 1977 hit 'Take This Job and Shove It' was by far his most successful single, however. It ...

Johnny PayCheck, who died on Wednesday aged 64, was a honky-tonk country singer with a reputation for hard-drinking, violence and general wild behaviour; he recorded 70 albums and had more than two ...