Cherry Red Records The outlaw’s prayer – epic country hits 1971-1981

In country
music’s roster of great honky tonk singers, Johnny Paycheck is without doubt
one of the greatest. In 1977 he enjoyed his only country chart No.1 with the
classic novelty, ‘Take This Job And Shove It’ a record so huge all across
America it inspired scores of examples of industrial action, became an anthem
for America’s blue collar workforce and inspired a movie of the same title.

In all he
accumulated sixty country chart hits between 1965 and 1989 and placed twenty
albums on the country LP charts between 1966 and 1987. An achievement that
places him within the top 100 country performers of all time.

Collected on
this CD are 26 country hits he enjoyed on Epic Records between 1971 and 1981.
Press:-

“A true country music renegade whose life and
times are best described by the song I’m
The Only Hell (Mama Ever Raised), the late Johnny Paycheck is still held in
high-esteem by many veteran country music fans.” Alan Cackett (Maverick – September/October 2012)