i'd let somebody straight pull out two of my fingernails to the quick to get the full acoustic version here - honestly think it's the best i've ever heard him sound
you aint kidding if still smoked and drank i couldnt stop it was my life i loved drugs so much ....was literally goin to die, by the grace of God after a few close calls, i finally got sober in 2021
what a shame he was never properly recorded playing like this. beautiful guitar playing and singing. johnny sounds great in front of a band, but to me he never sounded better than this, just the man and his guitar. such a talent.
Not underaided ... he was talented and people knew it... but Paycheck was out of control. Fighting all the time. Drugged out of his mind on coke and people in the business just didn't want to deal with it. Same for George Jones... almost lost his career also.
I wish I could go back in time to this very moment and be sitting there listening. Sometimes you come across videos and you just know you’re seeing a special place and time. That moment will live forever now.
“Money don’t mean nothing, unless your heart feels good”. What a man. What he said right there speaks to me. I always say that the day I discovered country music, I discovered the language of my heart, my soul. It speaks to me in a way I can’t even begin to describe. When I can’t explain how and what I feel, I put on some country music and it does the job far better than I ever could.
I’m right there with you… discovered country music at age 14 and now I’m 30, the rabbit hole keeps getting deeper with life experience. Feels like an old friend seeing right into my heart “3 chords and the truth”
Definitely a wild, rough cut, hard living man but a man who help tons of people and knew the mistakes he made and made his wrongs right. You gotta love this man!
To me, this is better than any of his recorded material. Would LOVE a full album of him playing guitar and singing with just a single mic in a room. His voice really shines when he sings quietly in a natural sounding setting. It's unbelievable.
Wow is all I can say. I could listen to a whole album of Paycheck just like this. If there is unreleased tapes of him with just voice and guitar, I know there's many of his fans would love to have it.
I agree with these comments. Why is this all cut up??? I want to hear the full song! Both of these versions are so much more beautiful & poignant than the recorded ones...
The best video on RU-vid, Ronnie and Johnny will live forever as legends and this version of Sharon Rae is such a tender, beautiful song. Thank you for posting this treasure.
I keep coming back again and again to this, probably one of the most beautiful few minutes of video I’ve ever seen, you can see johnnys soul man, sounds crazy to u probably but he’s just so damn real..
He has a unique voice for a country singer. It has the southern sound but there is something else in it that's not always found in country. Can't quite put a finger on it
When a singer can be themselves and sing from their true soul without having someone say sing it like this or that you get a piece of their soul in their voice. Sadly some will try and control people and not let them be their authentic self.
Just to check, this isn't from the documentary "Still Alive and Kickin'" narrated by Dan Aykroyd about Ronnie Hawkins, right? It's a separate doc? Would help in tracking down the original recordings
Jeez, cocaine made Johnny very introspective. Lol. You can’t deny he was an unbelievable talent and one of a Fkn kind. The human condition, it is a bitch. RIP Possum
Anyone know where I can find more oh this raw acoustic/ raspy / melancholy/ type of vibe of music of his or anyone else’s?? Something about it reminds of fog lake or Simon joyer. Need more man
@ilford57 do you happen to have this entire documentary you seem to have clipped this from? Would love to find some way to make it publicly accessible if possible! Cheers
Anybody know where to find the source material for this video? I'd love to see the full documentary or television special but i can't find anything when i search for "the hawk".
“You’re only as old as you feel”. Woman, “you’re right”. JP “that’s a lie”. Made me laugh. Damn that acoustic version of Sharon Rae is much better than the produced version…
Such a great JP song and footage I tried it a while back as best I could make out with open D tuning capo 3rd fret that leaves open chord F, then Bb/Eb, Gm and C, by working around these chords I came up with the following in the link below and I put a little Johnny Paycheck video together with it. Hope that helps? ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-GIpAgyez8oo.html
Just a little less, and Charles Mason could have been Johnny Paycheck, and vice-versa. And I say that with respect. There's a fine line between "out there" and "lost." Some of our greatest talents have been on both sides.
