Donald Eugene Lytle (May 31, 1938 – February 19, 2003), better known by his stage name
Johnny Paycheck, was an
American country music singer, multi-instrumentalist and
Grand Ole Opry member most famous for recording the
David Allan Coe song "
Take This Job and Shove It". He achieved his greatest success in the 1970s as a major force in country music's "Outlaw Movement" popularized by artists such as
David Allan Coe,
Waylon Jennings,
Willie Nelson,
Billy Joe Shaver, and
Merle Haggard. In the 1980s, his music career slowed for drug, alcohol and legal problems. He served a prison sentence in the early 1990s and his declining health effectively ended his career in early 2000.