Johnny Paycheck
Country, Musical Artist
1938 – 2003
Who was Johnny Paycheck?
Donald Eugene Lytle, better known by the stage name Johnny Paycheck, was a country music singer and Grand Ole Opry member most famous for recording the David Allan Coe song "Take This Job and Shove It". He achieved his greatest success in the 1970s as a major force in country music's "Outlaw Movement" popularized by artists such as David Allan Coe, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Billy Joe Shaver, and Merle Haggard. In the 1980s, his music career suffered from his problems with drugs, alcohol, and legal difficulties. He served a prison sentence in the early 1990s but his declining health effectively ended his career in early 2000.
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- Born
- May 31, 1938
Greenfield - Also known as
- Johnny PayCheck
- Johnny
- Donald Eugene Lytle
- Paycheck, Johnny
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Lived in
- Ohio
- Died
- Feb 19, 2003
Nashville
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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