Biggest Hits was released in 1983, just after Johnny Paycheck's streak of big hits on Epic was ending. It was the perfect opportunity to summarize his extended commercial peak, but the compilers chose not to strictly follow chart positions. Many big tunes -- Top Ten hits, even -- are missing, but the ten songs here hold together because they're nearly all great barroom anthems, whether it's a weeper like "She's All I Got," "Fifteen Beers," the saloon saga "Colorado Cool-Aid," or David Allan Coe's rowdy "Take This Job and Shove It." Subsequent collections covered more ground, with 2002's The Soul & the Edge taking the crown for its comprehensiveness, but as a lean slab of Paycheck's best outlaw music, this can't be beat.
What do you listen to when you get bad news? I pulled the plug on my job this past week due to circumstances that got ahead of me, so am now looking for work. It'll be ok, as I'm able to combine some personal stuff me and the wife wanted to do into the job hunt.Interestingly enough, I only experienced shock for a short time, and it was then that I couldn't listen to anything, but that only last...
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"Wikipedia":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deindustrialization of course has the best explanation, but nothing beats a testimonial.I have worked in the automotive industry for the last 10 years of my life. I got a job at a factory at the age of 19 and today is my last. If you live in Saginaw, MI(which I pray to God you don't) there is only one 'good' job to get and it is associated with General...
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So, I went on the server at work today to look in the archives. I needed an old story of mine, so I typed in my initials to bring up my work. Well, it also brought up what seems to be a letter about me from one editor to the other editors. In this letter, she is saying some nasty things about me. She's accusing me of doing certain things that I did, in fact, do, but only because she told me to ...
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