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 ...

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 ...

Seven years ago today, a songwriter who penned songs recorded by some of the biggest names in country music died.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, the hard-living country singer best known for his 1977 workingman’s anthem “Take This Job and Shove It,” has died. He was 64. PayCheck, who had been bedridden with emphysema and ...

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 ...