The Real Mr. Heartache - The Little Darlin' Years info.txt
Johnny Paycheck - The Real Mr. Heartache-The Little Darlin' Years
Country Music Foundation Records
CMF-023D
1996
Tracklist :
01. Don't Start Countin' On Me
02. The Girl They Talk About
03. A-11
04. The Real Mr. Heartache
05. I'm Barely Hangin' On To Me
06. The Lovin' Machine
07. He's In A Hurry (To Get Home To My Wife)
08. The Ballad Of Frisco Bay
09. Wherever You Are
10. Big Town Baby
11. Hang On Sally
12. (Pardon Me) I've Got Someone To Kill
13. (It's A Mighty Thin Line) Between Love And Hate
14. Apartment #9
15. The Late And Great Me
16. Motel Time Again
17. Jukebox Charlie
18. Touch My Heart
19. My Baby Don't Love Me Anymore
20. The Cave
21. Don't Monkey With Another Monkey's Monkey
22. (Like Me) You'll Recover In Time
23. It Won't Be Long (And I'll Be Hating You)
24. If I'm Gonna Sink (I Might As Well Go To The Bottom)
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For the casual country fan who only knows Johnny Paycheck from his late-'70s outlaw period ("Take This
Job and Shove It," a hit song so huge that its title was made into a major film), these 24 sides from
the mid-'60s will come as a major revelation. Paycheck has always come by his outlaw image honestly and
he had been knocking around Nashville since 1958, cutting rockabilly country singles under the name
Donny Young when he came to the attention of producer/record executive Aubrey Mayhew in 1962. Forming a
partnership, they produced a spate of hard country singles for Hilltop before starting up their own
label, Little Darlin'. Figuring the easiest way to get noticed was to be as wild as possible, they
uncorked a rash of singles (and a couple of albums) that pushed the darkest side of honky tonk lyrics
to their limits while simultaneously widening the limits of 45-rpm reproduction with stinging, high-end
mixes perfect for AM country radio stations and truck-stop jukeboxes alike. These weren't merely honky
tonk records bucking the tide of the '60s Nashville sound; this was country music with a wild-hair,
unrepentant redneck attitude to it. This dissolute persona is reflected in many of the titles alone, from
"If I'm Gonna Sink (I Might as Well Go to the Bottom)," to "He's in a Hurry (To Get Home to My Wife)," to
the absolutely scary "(Pardon Me) I've Got Someone to Kill," the mood getting blacker and blacker with each
keening wail of Lloyd Green's steel guitar. Paycheck may have had bigger (much bigger) hits than the 24
tracks collected here, but he never made any greater music than this.
-- Cub Koda
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Ripped with :
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All artwork is also included
in 600 dpi scans in PNG
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