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- Date Released: January 25, 2005
- Genre: Country/Folk
- Style: Traditional Country
- Label: KOCH Records
Down-on-yer-luck country has never sounded so sweet.
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We Say...
Sing Me Back Home is a new memoir by the New York Times’s Dana Jennings, who grew up in rural New Hampshire in the 1960s, where the men were men and the women were more manly still. Jennings reclaims hardcore country music for his people: The hardscrabble life, he points out, isn’t exclusive to Okies and Appalachians. The late Johnny Paycheck, who was born in Ohio, was a particular favorite of the Jennings clan, with his barroom laments (“The Meanest Jukebox”) and confessionals (“The Wheels Fell Off the Wagon”). “I live in a house with wall-to-wall sorrow, on the corner of Pain and Misery,” the old dog howls on “Heartbreak TN,” a fictional place where each of us might sometimes claim residence. This collection documents Paycheck’s breakthrough years, when he was still in his 20s but already ravaged by disappointment: “How did I get so distorted so young in life?” he asks a mirror on “I’m Barely Hangin’ On.” Here’s looking at you, kid.
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They Say...
The title of Koch's second collection of Johnny Paycheck's Little Darlin' recordings explains it all: this captures the period when Johnny was hitting his stride, when he was On His Way. If the first volume chronicled The Beginning, when Paycheck was finding his identity as he dabbled in Western swing and country staples, this collection -- consisting of material recorded in the mid-'60s (exact dates are nowhere to be found in the liner notes, regrettably) -- finds him settling into his classic honky tonk style, alternating between lively two-steps and heartbreaking ballads. While Paycheck and his producer/songwriting partner Aubrey Mayhew penned only two of the 15 songs here -- the very funny "Help Me Hank, I'm Falling," a plea to Hank Cochran to write another song so Johnny can have another hit as big as he had with Cochran's "A-11," and the lean honky tonk raver "The Meanest Jukebox" -- the songs are uniformly excellent and are delivered so convincingly, it's hard to imagine anybody else singing them. Most of the tunes aren't familiar -- they were released only as 45s, collected later on an independent album, and one, "The Wheels Fell off the Wagon," was previously unreleased prior to this collection -- but they more than hold their own with the two hit singles: the aforementioned "A-11" and the deliriously infectious "The Lovin' Machine," Paycheck's first Top Ten hit and biggest single of the '60s. These two sides bookend On His Way, and in between them lays a series of songs that may not have made the charts at the time, but they stand as one of the strongest sets of pure, straight-ahead country recorded in the '60s, and thanks to Koch, they're finally back in print, which is where they belong.
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I'd Rather Be Your Fool |
2:04 |
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| 02. | |
A-11 |
2:21 |
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| 03. | |
Where In The World |
2:06 |
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Heartbreak TN |
2:29 |
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Help Me Hank, I'm Falling |
2:47 |
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| 06. | |
I'm Barely Hangin' On |
2:17 |
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| 07. | |
Don't Tell My Wife |
2:40 |
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| 08. | |
Handcuffed To Love |
3:29 |
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| 09. | |
Pride Covered Ears |
2:52 |
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| 10. | |
The Wheels Fell Off The Wagon |
2:09 |
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| 11. | |
He's In A Hurry |
2:28 |
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| 12. | |
The Meanest Jukebox |
2:30 |
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| 13. | |
If You Should Come Back Today |
2:11 |
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The Little Folks |
2:56 |
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The Lovin' Machine |
2:35 |
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15 Total Tracks, 37:54 Total Length
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Credits
- Johnny Paycheck - Guitar // Johnny Paycheck - Vocals // Aubrey Mayhew - Producer // Aubrey Mayhew - Liner Notes // Aubrey Mayhew - Audio Production // Tom Kittypaw - Liner Notes // Tom Kittypaw - Compilation Producer
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