Ragged But Right
In many ways, the story of Atlanta, Georgia's Skillet Lickers, is the story of early country music. When the South's first commercial radio station, WSB, began broadcasting live hillbilly music in...
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Take This Job And Shove It
  Johnny Paycheck once made a record called "I'm The Only Hell (Mama Ever Raised)," and given his life story, one wouldn't doubt it. The Ohioan's many brushes with authorities of all sorts made him, by the mid-1970s, one of the few country outlaws who could actually claim to being one, and when he recorded fellow renegade (and real ex-con) David Allan Coe's "Take This Job And Shove It," the defiant ripple in his voice connected with disgruntled workers everywhere. As talented as he's been troubled, Paycheck was on the upswing in the late '90s, his personal and professional rehab symbolized by his 1997 induction into the Grand Ole Opry.

(D.A. Coe); Produced by Billy Sherrill; Johnny Paycheck, guitar and vocal; Billy Sanford, guitar; Jim Vest, steel guitar; Hargus "Pig" Robbins, piano; (probably) Charlie McCoy, harmonica; (probably) Henry Strzelecki, bass; Jerry Carrigan, drums; Rec. August 24, 1977. Columbia 8-50469 (mx. NCO 126475); P 1977 Sony Music Entertainment Inc.