Johnny Paycheck

Johnny Paycheck: Somebody Loves Me (Epic)

Review by Roger St. Pierre, New Musical Express, 27 January 1973

FOR QUITE A few years, black American singers have milked Nashville for meaningful ballad songs. Joe Simon, Esther Phillips, Joe Tex and O.C. Smith are ...

John Austin Paycheck Tries It Again

Profile by John Morthland, The Village Voice, 9 August 1976

JOHN AUSTIN Paycheck bounded onto the stage at the Other End last Wednesday, repeatedly rubbed his belly or tugged at his new beard, talked too ...

Johnny Paycheck, 1938-2003

Obituary by Tony Russell, The Guardian, 3 March 2003

DESPITE THE EFFORTS of many producers and publicists, country music has resisted being severed from its roots in southern US working-class life. ...

Johnny Paycheck: The Little Darlin' Sound Of Johnny Paycheck: The Beginning (Koch)

Review by John Morthland, No Depression, July 2004

SOMETIMES I THINK the Johnny Paycheck cultists are so enamoured of the sensational goth of stuff like '(Pardon Me) I've Got Someone To Kill' and ...