16 Biggest Hits

Paycheck, Johnny

Genre: music4me > Country

Format: CD Album

Released: Tue 10 Aug 1999

Catalogue Number: SNY69968.2

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Description:
Recorded between 1971 and 1978.
Johnny Paycheck's "tough guy" country persona is captured well on this greatest-hits album. Most of these tunes revolve around hard living, heartache, and trouble with the law. Some of the songs retain the old honky-tonk sound, while others are more modern.
"Me and the I.R.S." is a country-rock tune taken from a live show in the 1970s. Paycheck really gets the crowd whooped up on this anti-I.R.S. rant. His biggest hit, "Take This Job and Shove It," is also included here. This song became something of a rallying cry for underpaid blue-collar workers in the late '70s. Two of the songs, "Colorado Cool-Aid" and "The Outlaw's Prayer," are spoken-word stories with musical accompaniment. "Colorado Cool-Aid" is probably the most fascinating. Here, Paycheck weaves an interesting tale of a big bruiser who picks a fight with a young Mexican boy. With few exceptions, most of these songs revolve around either hell-raising or love's misery. Overall, 16 BIGGEST HITS does a fine job of documenting the Outlaw Country style that Paycheck helped to popularize.

Details:

Discs: 1

Track Listing:

1.	Shes All I Got
2.	Someone to Give My Love To
3.	Love Is a Good Thing
4.	Mr. Lovemaker
5.	Song and Dance Man
6.	11 Months and 29 Days
7.	Willow Weep for Me
8.	Im the Only Hell (My Mama Ever Raised)
9.	Colorado Cool-Aid
10.	Loving You Beats All Ive Ever Seen
11.	Friend, Lover, Wife
12.	Mabellene
13.	Drinkin and Drivin
14.	Me and the I.R.S.
15.	Outlaws Prayer, The
16.	Take This Job and Shove It

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