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
- Primary theme
- Peace, Protest & Anti-War
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
Notes
Leapin' Lena Records NR 18115-2; "The Renaissance Red Neck" (Earl Killian), time 2:51, Renaissance Red Necked Music, ASCAP; Earl Killian; produced by Earl Killian, arranged by David Johnson, engineer Harry Deal; "Recorded at Galaxie II Studio, Taylorsville NC 28631". [From the record sleeve and labels]
Themes
Draft Reluctance · Nixon · Korea · Germany (Cold War) · Answer to Mr. Custer · Draft