After the March 3 release of their new album, Baptized in Bourbon, the Moonshine Bandits—Big Tex and Bird—have released a new video for their song, “Take This Job,” a remake of Johnny Paycheck’s classic hit, “Take This Job and Shove It.” “We would of never done the remake unless David Allan Coe was on the…
From Sublime and Steve Miller Band to Jimmy Buffet and Johnny Paycheck, Jerrod Niemann’s musical influences are as diverse as his catalogue of country singles, which include No. 1 hits “Lover, Lover” and “Drink to That All Night.” As his current single with Lee Brice, “A Little More Love,” climbs the charts, the Kansas native…
It’s time to clock in—we’ve got the 40 Hardest Working Songs in Country Music. Today, Sept. 2, we’re featuring #1–10. Country music throughout the decades has not only embraced its working class roots, it’s made a point to praise them. Yes, work is tough, as Merle Haggard wrote in “Workin’ Man’s Blues” or as George…
Today is National Tell Your Employer to Shove It Day. OK, maybe that’s a bit of a fabrication, but it should be. Thirty-nine years ago today (Aug. 24), Johnny Paycheck recorded the David Allan Coe-penned “Take This Job and Shove It” at Columbia Recording Studio in Nashville. The tune, which topped the Billboard Hot Country…