Track Listing
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. (Don't Take Her) She's All I Got
6. Ragged Old Truck
7. Colorado Kool-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
14. Me and the I.R.S.
15. Feminine Touch, The
16. You Better Move On
17. I Did the Right Thing
18. When I Had a Home to Go To
19. Barstool Mountain
20. I Can See Me Lovin' You Again
21. Old Violin
22. All Night Lady
23. Outlaw's Prayer, The
| Details | | Contributing Artists: | George Jones | | Distributor: | Sony Music Distribution ( | | Recording Type: | Mixed | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Producer: Billy Sherrill.
Compilation producer: Bruce Dickinson.
Recorded between 1971 & 1986. Includes liner notes by Johnny Whiteside.
All tracks have been digitally remastered.
Personnel: Johnny Paycheck (vocals).
Liner Note Authors: Marty Martel; George Jones; Johnny Paycheck; Tim McGraw; Johnny Whiteside.
Photographers: Al Clayton; Sandy Speiser.
Those unacquainted with the world of country music, who think the Johnny Paycheck story begins and ends with the recession-era working-man's anthem "Take this Job and Shove It" are as misguided as the benighted soul who thinks Willie Nelson's career began with "On the Road Again." Though he seldom gets credit from the Wille/Waylon camp, Paycheck was indeed one of the original country outlaws. Sadly, the turn of the century found most of his extensive, gem-laden catalog out of print, but this definitive, 23-song collection goes a long way towards correcting that injustice.
Such tracks as "11 Months and 29 Days" show that Paycheck was just as comfortable in a blues format as he was with honky-tonk. Spiritual kin to Merle Haggard, perfectly mixing proletarian sentiments and hard-living tales of the wrong side of the law ("I'm the Only Hell [My Mama Ever Raised]" is as perfect a sequel to "Mama Tried" as one could want). "Colorado Cool-Aid" displays Paycheck's gift for light-hearted storytelling in a Tom T. Hall-like manner. Every track on THE SOUL & THE EDGE offers a glimpse at a different aspect of Paycheck's gifts, and for that we should all be grateful.
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