Johnny Paycheck

American outlaw-country entertainer. Co-founder of the [l=Little Darlin'] Nashville label with producer-publisher [a=Aubrey Mayhew]. Noted as much for his scrapes with the law as for his string of classic country hits.

Paycheck contracted emphysema and asthma after a lengthy illness. He died at Nashville's Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

[i]b.[/i] 31 May 1938, Greenfield, OH.

[i]d.[/i] 19 February 2003 in Nashville, TN.