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Title Tracks for The Soul & The Edge: The Best of Johnny Paycheck
  • 1. Take This Job And Shove It
  • 2. 11 Months and 29 Days
  • 3. I'm the Only Hell (Mama Ever Raised)
  • 4. Slide Off of Your Satin Sheets
  • 5. She's All I Got
  • 6. Ragged Old Truck
  • 7. Colorado Cool Aid
  • 8. Fifteen Beers
  • 9. I've Seen Better Days
  • 10. Someone to Give My Love To
  • 11. My Part of Forever
  • 12. Yesterday's News Just Hit Home Today
  • 13. (Stay Away from) The Cocaine Train (live)
  • 14. Me And The I.R.S. (live)
  • 15. The Feminine Touch
  • 16. You Better Move On (duet with George Jones)
  • 17. I Did The Right Thing
  • 18. When I Had a Home to Go Home To
  • 19. Barstool Mountain
  • 20. I Can See Me Lovin' You Again
  • 21. Old Violin
  • 22. All Night Lady
  • 23. The Outlaw's Prayer

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In 1970, after a string of not-quite hits and hard luck, Johnny Paycheck was singing for drinks in L.A. when Countrypolitan maestro Billy Sherrill gave him a second shot at a career. Paycheck's Epic debut with the producer, "She's All I Got," became a country smash and initiated a decade-long stint at the label that included the most commercially successful and some of the most emotionally complex work of his career (his much admired earlier sides--collected on the out-of-his-head The Real Mr. Heartache--notwithstanding). The Soul & the Edge draws from this fertile tenure, and though it omits a large number of charting hits from this period, much of what's here is prime Paycheck--"Slide off Your Satin Sheets," for example, and his signature "Take This Job and Shove It"--with many of these tracks otherwise unavailable on disc. Not to be missed are a conflicted pair of recitations, the notoriously rough and rowdy "Colorado Cool-Aid" (about a drunken knife fight) and the reverent "The Outlaw's Prayer." Best of all is the wrenching "I've Seen Better Days," where Paycheck comes to in someone's front yard, roused by Sherrill's wrenching, string-and-steel dynamics and squinting into the light of another miserable day. --David Cantwell

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The Soul & The Edge: The Best of Johnny Paycheck
  • Audio CD: 0 pages (2002-04-30)
  • Publisher: Sony
  • Label: Sony
  • Studio: Sony
  • Sales Rank in Music: #5137

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Solid overview of Paycheck's Epic years, May 5, 2002
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This review is from: The Soul & The Edge: The Best of Johnny Paycheck (Audio CD)
It's a shame that Paycheck is mostly remembered for his temper, jail-stints, and the hell-raising 1977 hit, "Take This Job and Shove It." A shame, because there's a lot more to Paycheck, including two separate halves of a successful recording career that yielded a wealth of hard-lived honky-tonk and comeback mainstream country hits.

Paycheck found his earliest success as a hard-core honky-tonker on the Little Darlin' label (anthologized on the Country Music Foundation's "The Real Mr. Heartbreak" CD). After splitting with the label's co-founder, and drinking away two years in California, Paycheck mounted a stunning comeback on Epic, spurred throughout the '70s by producer Billy Sherrill. It's these later sides, including hits like "She's All I Got" and "Someone to Give My Love To" that are anthologized here.

Paycheck's career with Epic had two distinct phases. His comeback sides smoothed out the sharp edges of his honky-tonk sound, with...Read more

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars This is what country music is truly meant to be, November 28, 2002
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Larry W. Brutsche (Hamilton, Ohio United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Soul & The Edge: The Best of Johnny Paycheck (Audio CD)
This is country music at its finest. This isn't what is coming out of Nashville today. On this disc every man's emotion is laid bare from happiness, despair, humor to pathos. And, best of all, is the "Old Violin". You can't call yourself a collector of country music until this cd is in your collection. How proud you will be to display this gem!
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Best Compilation of Paycheck's Epic Years, May 2, 2002
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T. C Lane (Marina, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Soul & The Edge: The Best of Johnny Paycheck (Audio CD)
Johnny Paycheck rarely gets mentioned with George Jones, Merle Haggard or Lefty Frizzell in Country History as one of the great, influential singers of all time. But he is, and Epic has finally given him a Compilation worth cheering. If it's just the charted hits you want buy, 16 Biggest Hits, which does a nice job. But this digs deeper. Albums cuts mixed with classics make for a better understanding of Paycheck's legacy. This also includes his last Country Top 40 hit, the self-penned "Old Violin" which was released on Mercury records in 1986. Up-to-date liner notes and good sound make this an essential purchase. If this whets your appetite, go for Paycheck's 60's sides which are perfectly captured on CMF's "The Real Mr. Heartache-The Little Darlin' Years". Someday, there'll be a compilation covering Paycheck's entire career. Until then, this CD and the CMF one are all you'll need to remember an unjustly ignored Country legend.
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