In Praise of Redneck Mothers

By: Jody Dyer, Typewriter Weekly I like the song – Up Against the Wall Redneck Mother. If you need a soundtrack for Mother’s Day, I think it’s appropriate. Written off the cuff by the great Ray Wylie Hubbard after a perilous late-night beer run and bar fight in Red River, New Mexico, and later popularized by Jerry Jeff Walker, it is questionably one of the greatest songs ever wri...