Redneck Friend
"Redneck Friend" | ||||
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Single by Jackson Browne | ||||
from the album For Everyman | ||||
B-side | "The Times You've Come" | |||
Released | September 1973 | |||
Recorded | 1973 | |||
Genre | Rock | |||
Length | 2:58 DJ single version, 3:56 album version | |||
Label | Asylum Records | |||
Songwriter(s) | Jackson Browne | |||
Jackson Browne singles chronology | ||||
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"Redneck Friend" (or, alternately, "Red Neck Friend") is a song written and performed by American singer-songwriter
Origin
William Ruhlmann at
At the time of the song's release in 1973, the LP back cover listed the title as "Red Neck Friend," however, the single releases read "Redneck Friend."
Reaction
For Janet Maslin, reviewing the For Everyman album in 1973 in Rolling Stone, the "glibness gets out of hand" with the song, which, she writes, "sounds like too deliberate an attempt to create a single by someone whose art, even at its most casual, remains too complex for strictly AM audiences."[8] Anthony DeCurtis referred to the song as a "loose-limbed, honky-tonk rave-up."[9] Billboard called it "clever socio-comment
lyrics set to a basic rock beat."
Chart positions
Chart (1973) | Peak position |
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US Billboard Hot 100[13] | 85 |
Cover versions
- Dave Alvin – West of the West, 2006.
- Jesse Dayton – ‘’Mixtape Vol. 1,’’ 2019.
Notes
- ^ Billboard magazine. Jackson Browne Chart History.
- ^ Allmusic.com. Jackson Browne Awards.
- ^ Wikipedia Jackson Browne Discography.
- ^ Whitburn, Joel. Billboard Hot 100 Charts – The Seventies. Wisconsin: Record Research, 1990.
- ^ Paris, Russ. JACKSON BROWNE COMPLETE DISCOGRAPHY. Archived August 18, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Ruhlmann, William. ALLMUSIC.COM, For Everyman Album Review.
- ^ Paris, Russ. Jackson Browne Trivia Quiz. Archived April 28, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Maslin, Janet. Rolling Stone, Review of For Everyman, November 22, 1973.
- ^ DeCurtis, Anthony. Rolling Stone, Review of For Everyman, August 5, 1999.
- ^ "Top Single Picks" (PDF). Billboard. September 8, 1973. p. 55. Retrieved July 25, 2020.
- ^ "CashBox Record Reviews" (PDF). Cash Box. September 15, 1973. p. 20. Retrieved December 11, 2021.
- ^ "Hits of the Week" (PDF). Record World. September 15, 1973. p. 1. Retrieved March 22, 2023.
- ^ "Jackson Browne Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard.