The Renaissance Red Neck
Leapin' Lena NR-18115 · Taylorsville, North Carolina
- Artist
- Earl Killian
- Title
- The Renaissance Red Neck
- Release
- The Renaissance Red Neck / Just Call Me Crazy
- Label
- Leapin' Lena # NR-18115
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- Taylorsville, North Carolina, USA
- Songwriter
- Earl Killian
- Genre
- Country · Country
Annotation
Renaissance Red Neck, The (Killian, Earl) Country. Draft song. Reference to Nixon. North Carolina, USA. Grew up in small southern town, shooting pool. Graduated in 1968, but then drafted to Vietnam: "Please Mr. Nixon, I don't want to go". Song also references Korea and Germany.
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
About the artist
Unknown - no admissible source documents this record or its performer. The only trace located of 'The Renaissance Red Neck' is an auction listing, which is inadmissible under the project's sourcing rules; Discogs has no matching artist or release. [Source: Discogs (negative search)]
Themes
Draft Reluctance · Nixon · Korea · Germany (Cold War) · Answer to Mr. Custer · Draft