Johnny Paycheck News

The sock business in Fort Payne continues to go south, both literally and figuratively.

It's been more than 30 years since Johnny Paycheck sang 'Take This Job and Shove It.' You know, 'Take this job and shove it, I ain't working here no more.' To rewrite the lyrics for today, we might sing ..."I'll take any job." Or, "Take this job and shove it, oops ... just kidding." What a difference a recession can make.

Today is Sunday, May 31, the 151st day of 2009 with 214 to follow. The moon is waxing.

Memorial Day weekend often signals the start of youth baseball, and it almost didn't happen this year in the Ohio town of Greenfield, where the sputtering auto industry choked off money for recreation.

Memorial Day weekend often signals the start of youth baseball, and it almost didn't happen this year in this town of 5,000, where the sputtering auto industry choked off money for recreation.But residents took a page from their famous son, "Take This Job and Shove It" singer Johnny Paycheck, and went their own way by raising money, fixing up ...

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Outlaw country singer and Ohio native David Allan Coe will be in concert performing hits from more than 50 years in the business Thursday, June 4 at the Silver City Club in Huntington.

File 1983 David Allan Coe performs on the stage of the Roanoke Civic Center auditorium, which is now the Performing Arts Theatre.

The key to moving a former pop or rock singer into the Country market seemed pretty straightforward to the record label folks who had engineered that transition for Darius Rucker and Jessica Simpson.

Forget Rascal Flatts: Pupy Costello and his band make real, foot-stompin' country music, the kind that's fit for both a honky-tonk barn dance and a bar full of rascals.

Who: David Allan Coe When: Friday, doors open at 6 p.m. Show starts at 7:30 p.m. How much: $20. $5 surcharge for minors.