Like a lot of folks, I was pretty unaware of Johnny Paycheck - save his huge hit Take This Job and Shove It for a long time. So I was pretty unprepared for the insanely brilliant country to be found on the Country Music Foundation's 1996 24 track compilation of Paycheck's 1960s recordings on the Little Darlin' label. The songwriting, the singing (jesus christ, he can sell a song), and, of course, Lloyd Green's inspired pedal steel playing. Just phenomenal country. Now, it went out of print a while back, then I think it was back in print for a while, but is now definitely out of print (and pretty rare). However, Nowhere to Run, another compilation of his Little Darlin' label did come out last year and they share about 10-11 songs in common. Still, there's about 18-19 tracks on that comp that aren't on The Real Mr. Heartache. The Koch label also put out some other comps of Paycheck's stuff from the 60s - they're all good, but I think I'm kind of partial (at least this month) to The Complete Gospel Sessions. And also check out The Soul and the Edge - it's a nice collection of his best 70s material.
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| Don't Start Countin' On Me |
| The Girl They Talk About |
| A-11 |
| The Real Mr. Heartache |
| I'm Barely Hangin' On To Me |
| The Lovin' Machine |
| He's In A Hurry (To Get Home To My Wife) |
| The Ballad Of Frisco Bay |
| Wherever You Are |
| Big Town Baby |
| Hang On Sally |
| (Pardon Me) I've Got Someone To Kill |
| (It's A Mighty Thin Line) Between Love And Hate |
| Apartment #9 |
| The Late And Great Me |
| Motel Time Again |
| Jukebox Charlie |
| Touch My Heart |
| My Baby Don't Love Me Anymore |
| The Cave |
| Don't Monkey With Another Monkey's Monkey |
| (Like Me) You'll Recover In Time |
| It Won't Be Long (And I'll Be Hating You) |
| If I'm Gonna Sink (I Might As Well Go To The Bottom) |
13 comments:
Dang! Not quick enough to beat the PTB.
I re-upped it on another file sharing site.
Thanks. Glad to add this set=- fills a couple gaps.
Thanks! I've been looking for this for a while.
@Jerry Lee and anonymous,
Quite welcome. It's really a must have for any 60s country music fan.
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Merry Christmas and thank you
Mark
@Mark,
It's been re-upped. Merry Xmas to you as well!
Thanks for this!!!!! Listening to some black metal while I'm downloading,weird combination....great big world of music out there.
I dunno, I think black metal and Johnny Paycheck are a pretty cool combination.
Man alive you have excellent taste. Escovedo, Bowie, Chris Gaffney, and Johnny Paycheck all on one site.
Bobby,
Thanks for the kind words. Just re-upped the Paycheck cd as well - still one of my very favorite collections.
best,
Ish
Super cool! Big Thanks! And apologies for late Thanks! With my cluttered email I miss stuff for a bit sometimes.
Bobby,
Quite welcome - always happy to spread the Paycheck gospel. And no need for apologies - I'm always getting behind on my e-mails, too. :)
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