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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Country singer Johnny PayCheck, the hard-drinking hell-raiser best known for his 1977 working man's anthem "Take This Job and Shove It," has died at 64. PayCheck had been bedridden ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 1977, a brutally honest country song about workplace frustration struck a nerve with millions of Americans and turned into one ...

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 ...

After recording the unfinished songs of the late, great Gary Stewart on last summer’s Touch of You – The Lost Songs of Gary Stewart, Mike and the Moonpies return with a new original song. “Paycheck to ...

Don Adams, an influential bassist and vocalist who toured with country music legends Johnny Paycheck and George Jones during the outlaw country era, died Sunday after battling cancer for several years ...

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 ...

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 ...