Johnny Paycheck

Donald Eugene Lytle, a/k/a Johnny Paycheck.
Sad to report he passed away on February 19, 2003, but he deserves this post.  Of course he was a country music singer and a member of Grand Ole Opry member.  Membership in the Opry is country music's crowning achievement.  Legends Hank Williams, Patsy Cline, Roy Acuff, the Carter family, Bill Monroe, Ernest Tubb, Kitty Wells and Minnie Pearl are members.  And of course Johnny Paycheck was most famous for recording the David Allan Coe song "Take This Job and Shove It."   Paycheck had marginal success in the 1970s as a smaller part of what had become country music's "Outlaw Movement," of whom DAC, Waylon, Willie, Merle, and Billy Joe Shaver were members.  In the 1980s, his music career suffered from his problems with drugs, alcohol, and legal difficulties. He served a prison sentence in the early 1990s but his declining health effectively ended his career in early 2000.