Thinking about the music of Johnny Paycheck recently, I looked up background info about his life: he was from Greenfield, Ohio.
I was born in Ohio, too: I lived in the northeastern part of the state. Johnny Paycheck's birthplace, Greenfield, is in southern Ohio.
"Southern Ohio Farm"
by Joseph Boysko
"Southern Ohio Countryside"
by Linda Apple
When you Google paintings of southern Ohio, you start to hit a pattern... Peaceful, sunny, scenic Rural Settings...
That might not be southern Ohio's whole story, but they are nice pictures.
Just as this watercolor by 'artist unknown' titled "Ohio Pollution"
does not represent everything the industrial northeastern part of the state had to offer.
And background info about the song "Take This Job And Shove It" says it was written by David Allen Coe, and was about a bad relationship, but everyone interpreted a different, surface meaning to it, from the first line...
I would like to know if the recording was done with a specific band that maybe traveled with Johnny Paycheck, or if it was recorded with studio musicians, because it's the single that is just great-sounding, regardless of the words or competing meanings....
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