Jackson Browne - "Red Neck Friend" (1973)

For Everyman is the second album by American singer/songwriter Jackson Browne, released in 1973 (see 1973 in music). The album peaked at number 43 on the Billboard 200 chart and the single "Redneck Friend" reached number 85 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. In 2003, the album was ranked number 457 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.

Jackson Browne (born Clyde Jackson Browne on October 9, 1948) is an American singer-songwriter and musician who has sold over 17 million albums in the United States alone.

Coming to prominence in the 1970s, Browne has written and recorded several notable tracks throughout his career including "These Days", "The Pretender", "Running On Empty", "Lawyers in Love", and "Somebody's Baby". In 2004, he was both inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio, and bestowed an Honorary Doctorate of Music by Occidental College in Los Angeles, California.

Browne was born in Heidelberg, Germany, where his father, an American serviceman, was stationed. Browne's mother, Beatrice Amanda (née Dahl), was a Minnesota native of Norwegian ancestry. Browne has three siblings: Roberta "Berbie" Browne who was born in 1946 in Nuernberg, Germany (Nuernberg) and Edward Severin Browne who was born in 1949 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. His younger sister, Gracie Browne, was born a number of years later. Browne moved to the Highland Park district of Los Angeles, California, at the age of 3 and in his teens began singing folk music in local venues like the Ash Grove and The Troubador Club. He attended Sunny Hills High School in Fullerton, California, graduating in 1966.

After moving to Greenwich Village, New York, in early 1966 Jackson Browne joined the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, performing at The Golden Bear (Huntington Beach, CA) where they opened for The Lovin' Spoonful. The band later recorded a number of Jackson's songs including "These Days," "Holding," and "Shadow Dream Song". Jackson also spent a short amount of time in his friend Pamela Polland's band Gentle Soul. Before Jackson's eighteenth birthday, he became a staff writer for Elektra Records' publishing company, Nina Music, reporting on musical events in New York City with his friends Greg Copeland and Adam Saylor. He spent the remainder of 1967 and 1968 in Greenwich Village, New York, where he backed Tim Buckley and German singer Nico, of the Velvet Underground. In 1967 Browne and Nico were romantically linked and he became a significant contributor to her debut album, Chelsea Girl, writing and playing guitar on several of the songs (including "These Days"). After leaving New York City, Browne formed a folk band with Ned Doheny and Jack Wilce, and settled in Southern California.

Browne's first songs such as "Shadow Dream Song" and "These Days" were recorded by the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Tom Rush, Nico, Steve Noonan, Gregg Allman, Joan Baez, the Eagles, Linda Ronstadt, the Byrds, and others. Browne didn't release his own version of many of these early songs himself until years later.

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[joshwelljonesfirst]

This must be Alfred Einstein at work Ha HA..

[tmac396]

Yeah, my '59 Chevy pickup has a pair of Vise Grips on the window crank, too. Hitting too close to home on a few of these!

[Gersh54]

Heck I just might be a redneck!!

[WickedTornado]

@SNJREBEL I gotta admit, I did have a vehicle once that had a pair of vice grips on "permanant-grip" attached to the window roll-up nut....so I could open and close the window...lol. Yeah, that was the car I took to the prom. Damn I miss that Rambler.

[SNJREBEL]

a video that you can say hey I would've done that or I did do that. and that truck door did kind of looks like my old dodge

[ildibildi53]

Cooool...... Thanx.

[flipside1545]

go joe!!!