Real name: Donald Eugene Lytle

Effective period / Period of releases: 1965 - 2012

American outlaw-country entertainer. Co-founder of the Little Darlin' Nashville label with producer-publisher 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.

b. 31 May 1938, Greenfield, OH.
d. 19 February 2003 in Nashville, TN.