Johnny PayCheck in the News

You may not here much about Johnny PayCheck in the news and online, but his influence and music is still talked about and mentioned widely.

On this page I will place snipets I find that mention Johnny. Some articles may only include a mention of his name while others will be written just about Johnny.

Some articles may be completely irrelevent while others are real gems. Take a look through, you may find something useful.

SAME stage, different song for Zell
Macon Telegraph - Macon,GA,USA
... "I'd better leave that alone," he said, pausing a moment. "Well, there's
what David Allen Coe wrote for Johnny Paycheck ("Take This Job and Shove
It") or that ... click here for article

OVER Yonder Jamboree
Waynesville Smoky Mountain News - Waynesville,NC,USA
... He eventually made it in country music — he wrote Johnny Paycheck’s
#1 hit, “Take This Job and Shove It,” and scored a hit of his own
with Steve Goodman ... click here for article

THE Meat Purveyors and Rough Shop
Riverfront Times - St. Louis,MO,USA
... played with love. They've done Ratt, Lou Reed, Merle Haggard, ABBA,
and now Johnny Paycheck, Bill Monroe and Fleetwood Mac. If the ...
click here for article

WNC, make way for two rowdy cowboys
Waynesville Smoky Mountain News - Waynesville,NC,USA
... He couldn’t sing a lick. He tried to soldier through, even bringing
opener Johnny Paycheck back out to help carry the lead, but it was rough
going. ... click here for article

MCGRAW basks in hard-won superstar role
SunHerald.com - Biloxi,MS,USA
... for two hours. He says he tries to follow a bit of career advice he'd
once gotten from the late singer Johnny Paycheck. "He told ...
click here for article

SPEAKING with Robbie Fulks
Chicago Sun Times - Chicago,IL,USA
... hard-core country singer. He is now shopping his newest collection
of country songs, a Johnny Paycheck tribute. Fulks will be performing ..
click here for article

FINE PURVEYORS
Kansas City Star (subscription) - Kansas City,MO,USA
... How kitschy is that?”. The rest of the Purveyors' cover repertoire
makes more sense: songs by Bill Monroe, Ralph Stanley and Johnny Paycheck.
... click here for article

THE week in music: Critics' concert picks for Aug. 27-Sept. 2
Minneapolis Star Tribune (subscription) - Minneapolis,MN,USA
... Like Willie Nelson, country great George Jones, 72, keeps on touring
-- and recording (he has a song on the new Johnny Paycheck tribute CD).
... click here for article

MUSIC: Rusty Wier, John Arthur Martinez
Austin 360 (subscription) - Austin,TX,USA
... Daredevils, Amazing Rhythm Aces, Atlantic Rhythm Section, Pure Prairie
League, Gatemouth Brown, Steve Fromholz, Willie Nelson, Johnny Paycheck,
BW Stevenson .. click here for article

TOUCH My Heart: A Tribute to Johnny Paycheck (Sugar Hill Records)
Riverfront Times - St. Louis,MO,USA
More and more contenders find themselves battling for the figurative bling
that comes with being crowned the Lou's best rapper. ... click here for article

VARIOUS Artists
Riverfront Times - St. Louis,MO,USA
To most of us, Johnny Paycheck was the guy who sang "Take This Job and
Shove It." While it's true that his monster-hit version of David Allen
Coe's classic ... click here for article

TOUGH CROWD
The Bay City Times - Bay City,MI,USA
... He's written songs for Johnny Paycheck, Tanya Tucker, George Jones,
Willie Nelson, Del Reeves, Tammy Wynette, The Oakridge Boys, Kid Rock
and more. ... click here for article

A Johnny Paycheck Tribute That Really Pays Off
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA
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 ... click here for article

SNOOP and Co. reunite; Tritt's past is a real blast
USA Today - USA
... Touch My Heart: A Tribute to Johnny Paycheck (* * *) The late Johnny
Paycheck often sang about men trying to cope with lives that had come
unhinged, and covers ... click here for article

MAVIS Staples maintaining family tradition
Chicago Sun Times - Chicago,IL,USA
... got the country music ball rolling when he asked Staples to sing the
gospel-blues title track on "Touch My Heart: A Tribute to Johnny Paycheck,"
released last ... click here for article

DUSTY'S Latest Daughter
New York Times - New York,NY,USA
... And "Radio India" works powerfully on the senses. `TOUCH MY HEART:
A TRIBUTE TO JOHNNY PAYCHECK' Tribute albums have become a morass of good
intentions. ... click here for article

August 14 2004
THINGS keep getting better for country music star
Baton Rouge Advocate - Baton Rouge,LA,USA
... McGraw's love of music dates to childhood, when he knew all the words
to songs by Merle Haggard, Johnny Paycheck and Charley Pride. ...
click here for article

July 29 2004
TRACKING THK at the convention
The Hill - Washington,DC,USA
Not since Johnny Paycheck raced up the country music charts with his kiss-off
message to employers everywhere has the phrase “shove it” been heard
so much ... click here for article

LIGHTEN up, Teresa!
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
... Not only does she need to apologize to Mr. McNickle, but she needs
to pay Johnny Paycheck royalties for using that famous phrase from his
song.. click here for article

July 28 2004
MEMO -- Convention edition
Houston Chronicle - Houston,TX,USA
... It has to be a sea monster. Doesn't it? 3. Johnny B. Goode marries
Johnny Paycheck! Is "shove it" a shocking phrase for an adult to use to
another adult? ...click here for article

DURHAM scapegoat is gone
Raleigh News - Raleigh,NC,USA
... A top-notch, experienced manager confident of her abilities would have
done a Johnny Paycheck two years ago and told the council to "take this
job and shove it ...click here for article

July 27 2004
KEEPING his career options open
ESPN - USA
In his new role as career counselor to the stars, Ricky Williams has already
made a statement so bold that nobody has actually seen it since Johnny
Paycheck. ... click here for article

WAKE up, Dolphins; we knew this all along
Sun-Sentinel.com - Fort Lauderdale,FL,USA
... Most people dream of the day they don't have to get up and go to work.
Johnny PayCheck became a working-class icon for singing that philosophy.
... click here for article

July 24 2004
KEEPING his career options open
ESPN - USA
In his new role as career counselor to the stars, Ricky Williams has already
made a statement so bold that nobody has actually seen it since Johnny
Paycheck. ...click here for article

WAKE up, Dolphins; we knew this all along
Sun-Sentinel.com - Fort Lauderdale,FL,USA
... Most people dream of the day they don't have to get up and go to work.
Johnny PayCheck became a working-class icon for singing that philosophy.
...click here for article

July 19 2004
LASTING impressions
Knoxville News Sentinel - Knoxville,TN,USA
... to promote music artists. His print of late country singer Johnny Paycheck
will tie in with a new tribute album. His print of outlaw ... click here for article

July 17 2004
LASTING impressions
Knoxville News Sentinel - Knoxville,TN,USA
... to promote music artists. His print of late country singer Johnny Paycheck
will tie in with a new tribute album. His print of outlaw ...click here for article

July 16 2004
TEXAS Music: The Waybacks
News 9 San Antonio - San Antonio,TX,USA
... name the Waybacks. They've fused an eclectic mix of musical backgrounds...from
gigs with Lawrence Welk to Johnny Paycheck. And they ...click here for article

MANY are pursuing a badge, but why?
Orlando Sentinel (subscription) - Orlando,FL,USA
... It should've been Johnny Paycheck doing "Take This Job and Shove It."
You can contact Jake Vest at jvest@orlandosentinel.com or call 1-800-347-6868,
Ext. ...click here for article

July 8 2004
COACH K tuned out LA loonies
Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ,USA
Coach K is too nice to say this to the Lakers, so, with the gravelly voice
of Johnny Paycheck rumbling around up here in Heat's brain, we'll say
it for him ...click here for article

July 5 2004
WE don't always hit the right note, or the right song
North County Times - Escondido,CA,USA
... And don't forget Robert Goulet's gaffe, singing "by the dawn's early
night." Also relegated to the Hall of Shame, singer Johnny Paycheck, who
reportedly gave ...click here for article

NATIONAL anthem: Star-Spangled and often mangled
Newark Star Ledger - Newark,NJ,USA
... who before the 2002 Major League Baseball All-Star game, sang, "gave
truth through the night," and "rockets' great glare." Or Johnny Paycheck,
who gave up and ...click here for article

July 4 2004
PRAIRIE Port headliners offer 4 acts for the price of one
El Dorado Times - El Dorado,KS,USA
... his latest project, "That's Why I Sing This Way," Singletary is joined
by such country music legends as Merle Haggard, George Jones, Johnny Paycheck
and Dwight ...click here for article