Roughest Neck Around - Corb Lund

Official Video for "Roughest Neck Around". Corb Lund and the Hurtin' Albertans. Filmed in Devon, Alberta on May 30, 2004. Directed by Joel Stewart.

[@lauraellis9819]

This song tugs at my heart every time I play it. My son was a Derek on the rigs for three years and he absolutely loved it. Unfortunately he was in a roll over that took his life coming home from the rigs near tabernacle, Alberta. We played this song at his funeral so it has a special place in my heart. Thanks corb for beautiful memory.

[@PaulRudd1941]

Wow I didn't expect to go on a feel-trips scrolling through the comments... I'm so sorry for your loss.

[@archerynut]

@@PaulRudd1941 gotta second that. Music is damn powerful stuff!

[@davidnichols7485]

Rip Derek

[@RP-vu2ru]

I've lost many friends in the alberta oil patch .. most on the drive to or from work.. sorry for your loss .. the patch feels it when we lose a brother

[@acornsandlillies8788]

So sorry for your loss!

[@bennielsen1524]

Anyone who has done hard work gets this song in about 10 seconds. Really good stuff. These are the people who give you the good life. They break their backs and make the world work.

[@crazyoilfieldmechanic3195]

Damn straight man 👍

[@cartcam6856]

"diesel burning cat motors growling in the mud" love that line ;)

[@jaketm4500]

take the fuel from the tank on a short change shift made me spit my coffee all over the dash of the pick up the first time I heard that,lol pictured myself filling my slip tank looking over my shoulder haa haaa!

[@zachfrere7246]

Ain’t nothing like a caterpillar engine

[@ianonufer6988]

Oh man I had Wakasha when I worked motors. They were the fluffing worst imaginable. I left all 3 gens on all the time because if I tried shutting them off when I tried to fire em back up something would always be catastrophicly wrong

[@savagechevyman]

I meet a roughneck and he stood 6'9 and weighed 363 pounds........one of the hardest workers I ever did meet and he was even a down home family man.....super nice guy.....the only reason I met him was cause my truck broke down on the roade and being a good ole boy he had to stop and help.....AMEN and THanks again

[@savagechevyman]

I met a roughneck one day when my truck broke down passing through Alberta Canada, he stood 6' 9" tall and weighed 417 pounds....the nicest guy you ever did meet....god bless them roughnecks and all the crew out there on the oil rigs, wish i could work on the oil rigs one day....im stuck here in the shop wrenching on heavy equipment for a living although i dont mind one bit

[@rockinredneck57]

Damn, he gained 54 pounds in telling this story .

[@derekfalkowsky8317]

I used to listen to this song all the time heading out to the Rig. I worked for Champion Drilling as a Derrick Hand on rig 333 and rig 351. Life sure has changed, but this song takes me down memory lane! throwing tongs, pulling slips, spinning chain, racking pipe, mixing mud, yeeehaa baby.

[@noftchks1]

Corb and his band are a bunch of Alberta good ol' boys, and we couldn't be more proud of them! God bless them boys, yeehaw!!

[@georgeloyie9025]

Green Kings... brings back many hard workin 1980s memories from all over Alberta and even a bit into The Senlac field in Saskabush. Yep I was a rig pig, had a bag of dry woollies, 6 ratty pairs of coveralls and two 5 gallon pails full of dirty and 1/2 dirty Green Kings, that was our 'protective' gear back in the 80s. Old Money Packard was our tool push, he'd give us those orange rubber cotton lined gloves when it got to blowing really hard, I sure miss that man, he was fair. I remember plenty -25s and colder, snowing and blowing like crazy, me and another floor hand each of us got a 12 or sometimes a 16 pound sledge hammer to pound in a bunch of 1 ton truck axles into the frozen prairia dirt. We used the axles for connecting the safety cables to, I believe it did made us a wee bit tougher as it was truly a brutal work out! Now I hear today there's WHOLE friggin companies just runnin around mechanically screwin in screws/posts for them cables haha! None of us got rich even though we'd work months straight with little to no time off to see family or even clean our coveralls and pails of Green Kings... With a good push we worked pretty steady, drove what we could afford which was mainly old farm trucks, station wagons, some of the boys had sports cars. Nothin at all like a lot of today's oil people, financing a big diesel dually truck with a huge 6 or 7 bedroom house, add in a couple quads and a Mastercraft boat all mostly owned by the bank equals an ulcer at the end of the day because Alberta oilfield downtimes are an awful regular fact... Today I see a whole lot of depressed dudes, wishin like hell that they'd saved a bit of that big cash they made before it got slow. I'll tell ya we were happy though, happy to be working when the rest of the province was in one of its regular downtimes. I got $12.50 an hour to start! $13.50 an hour after 6 months and when I became Derrick hand I was makin $15.50 an hour, pretty giant pay for a 19 year old back in the 80s!! But as my shit luck would have it, that damned cocaine was introduced to our rig crew and while everything went to shit I simply "slipped out the back and got the hell outta Dodge", just didn't like what I saw, my childhood friends suckin on a crack pipe, crawlin on the floor, most of them are dead now. Nothing lasts but the memories and my old 74 Chevy 3/4 ton 2wd farm truck. I'm crippled up now with a broken back and I hate most folks so I stay out of society but I can still yak about the past and the better days as long as I want to here on youtube. Peace and save yer cash!

[@gbudning]

Thank you for sharing your story

[@kaleb1gam1ng53]

Holy shit this is long

[@chrishartwig5230]

Learned the hard way to save some of those summer earnings. Never got into those drugs but whiskey and tequila took a lot of my pay.

[@brendaeulenstein4255]

WOW. Sounds like hard slog for not much pay. At the end of the day its all about the lifestyle we want to live or not live. Most people live for today.

[@austin1416]

Respect

[@CanadaMMA]

Corb might be the most Canadian singer on the planet. And I mean that in a very GOOD way.

[@brianlawson694]

im beginning to wonder if he was stolen from Alabama as an infant... lol... he needs to tour down here

[@eroc1970]

+Brian Lawson no hes definetly an alberian

[@nymeria4924]

a\Alberta all the way! Honest and real, we got it gong on!!

[@philippetz6691]

@@eroc1970 and were damn gracious you guys borrow him to us down here in the states.

[@constancemiller3753]

All stand for the anthem. ⛏🇨🇦

[@TheAlam0]

This song reminded me of My grandpa who worked in the oil field most his life he worked his whole life since he was 5 years old and couldn't go to school cuase his parents didn't let him so he helped his family around the land in Mexico where he was from, and he walked all the way to SA TX with idek how much money in his pockets, and only went one day of school no school education but he learned from experience communication and television how to speak English, and he was always a hard working man, and he was in a Oil rig fire and explosion and survived with burns to his face, and he sure was a fighter he even helped other ppl while he was burned pretty badly saved their lives and survived to tell the the story, and years later I was the last to see him alive. He past of a broken hearts cuase he missed my uncle his youngest son who unfortunately also past a few years before. This song just reminded me of how much of a hard worker he and many many other people are and were.

[@roadking0073]

In 2 months after almost 45 years of busting my ass to provide for myself and my family, I'm pulling the pin and retiring. I always tried to be the first guy on the job site and the last one to leave, never asked for nothing I didn't deserve and never took nothing I didn't earn, overtime to beat hell, distances traveled, injuries incurred, goddamned taxes I've paid, you name it, I did it. When I hear this song and Richmen From North Of Richmond by Oliver Anthony I know I'm gonna' miss the fuck out of it all. Pride is not bought or asked for. It's earned with blood, sweat and tears and it's the one thing you can keep tucked in your workshirt pocket right beside your carpenters pencil and a half pack of decent cigarettes. Keep giving 'er out there boys, and Corb, me and my buddies are going to your show coming up in March in Winnipeg. We intend to have a 'yeehaw brains against the wall goodtime!' When we get there. Have a good'er everybody!👍

[@twillison8824]

I'm a miner, and I wouldn't trade it for most any other job. Sure it's hard work at times and not all of my coworkers in the shit have all their fingers, but I love it.

[@jonathanwillard1776]

Yes! I want to say that 30 years ago i said" theres no way in hell i will ever listen to or like country music ever in my life" but when im WRONG I DO ADMIT IT AND " I AM SORRY I WAS WRONG". Now with that said i know for a fact Mr. Corb Lund will never read this comment so, Mr.Corb Lund you alone sir are the reason i now listen to good country music ( mostly Corb Lund Band) because your band is the bees knees) your an awesome songwriter and performer, THANK YOU Mr. Lund I think your damnsure one of the best in the world and i can hardly wait to see you my wife and i of 16 years and i just now started listening to country. but dont get me wrong now music is my thing i was listening to Red Simpson, Dave Dudley and Red Sovine Marty Robbins when i was a young boy just didnt know i loved it till now, always been a confederate growing up on a farm in Tennessee. "We love you and thank you kindly" keep doing what you do because it is truly the best.

[@Autis-hu1ty]

Dime Box Texas never worked so hard in my life. I never played so hard. Not all us made it. No one left to talk to. It was a place for a boy to become a man. A man that is not afraid to die you can't do anything to him. Women and children first JESUS is King.. I will never change.

[@danatcanyonlake583]

Worked with plenty of Canadians in my 46 years in the patch and they were always good, solid folks, but this is my first Canadian "roots music"! A#1 - Eh?

[@quickgart]

All of his music deserves so much more fame, it's so amazing!

[@jamesgrierson507]

I'm from Blackpool... England and can only say wow! Love this band and what every song stands for

[@GoViking933]

This song is special to us Western Canadian Oilpatch Veterans. I’ve been to the museum near Devon a few times and it’s great to see a Command Rig that a bunch of my family have worked on at :50

[@chickey333]

"...he's married to his iron..." There is no better way to describe working on a rig than that..... none.

[@johnwipf9499]

There definitely is a special attachment to the rigs you worked on. Cant explain it.

[@RKWWWW]

I threw chain on a drilling crew in the 70's. This song just nails it. Brillant lyrics.

[@GoViking933]

I had an ‘ancient’ wireline swamper about 20 years ago, he had great (& terrible) stories until the NEP kicked in and he lost his job back then.

[@GoViking933]

I forgot to mention he worked from the late 70s till the NEP early 80’s

[@MissRockabetty]

Corb Lund is my cousin, and I love this song.

[@clayfaceification]

this hits all aspects of the oil field, especially the to make sure his kids are doing fine part. I'm sure millions have shed a tear to that. Hope to see you one day!

[@ericparrish1515]

Shitty thing to have to wonder yeah

[@andruwinter902]

Heard this song in my early 20's working the patch in Alberta and I still love it to this day

[@GoViking933]

We must be of the same vintage. What a great era!

[@jakesmith8753]

Love Corbs music. I worked oil patch in Alaska for 20 years. Also, Shine Up My Boots is a realistic night out for the young man looking and probably just ends up drunk!

[@davezacharias8756]

Well, HELLO from a former Taberite! I grew up in Taber, went school in Barnwell until grade 6 then to WR Myers! Seems strange that I have never heard of you before, especially in such a small town. I Really enjoy your music! I am the youngest of 11 kids so we DID make an imprint onTaber for sure! I understand you live in Lethbridge now, I have 2 sisters living there as well. Spent many years as a Driectional Driller so I know about the rig pig life! Live in Calgary now but still miss the small town life. Keep on singing bud you are GOOD!

[@Alsp1323]

I proudly listen to this while drinking Alberta Premium whiskey and Great Western beer. Amen.

[@GoViking933]

We are sure blessed here hey.

[@tthomaselli2]

I first heard of both this song & The Corb Lund Band, respectively because of the video game 'Big Mutha Truckers'. Great times...

[@WW5RM]

Best dam song ive heard in a LONG time! Without the Oilfield we would still be driving a Horse and Buggy!

[@dustincluney8984]

Roughnecked for 8 years on kelly doubles 💪🏼

[@cliffweisinger9740]

If it's ok w/ you, I'd like to dedicate this song to my Grandpa Ralph M. Scott.One of the 1st drillers in the Conroe oilfield & my Dad, John Earl Weisinger who had a hand in my way of life. Thank You, Cliff

[@JogInTheFog]

They play this song all the time on a fantastic country station in Texas! I had no idea these guys are Canadian.

[@chrisredfield3636]

love this song one of corbs best song EVER he got the power in his hands and he pulls dragons from the ground ya

[@brendaeulenstein4255]

It is his best ever song. I agree.Song about the hardest working men around.I play it often.

[@ericparrish1515]

Could play louder. I can't hear

[@chrisredfield3636]

i am from alberta and me and my dad both agree that alberta needs more cowboys and country singers!!!

[@millertime8835]

Cat diesels growlin in the mud!!!!! Best lyrics ever!

[@chuckheppner3374]

Oilfield Trash & damned proud of it!

[@Grip_ItandrRip_It]

On behalf of the folks from Texas: AW Hell yeah!

[@WW5RM]

HELL YEAH! Texarkana, Tx here but i worked all over the Ark - La- Tex in the oil and gas fields. Even Abilene for a couple of years. Where you located?

[@Bobo56Bear]

1:15 Best part " he got his mud weight right ", most important part of drilling, "Mud Engineering " Viscosity, Specific Volume, Weight. Sieve Size distribution etc :) For all those just graduating High School, Study Mud Engineering ( petroleum engineering ) Tech College 2y (NAIT and SAIT in Alberta :) in school and $85K plus. best quick $ field, and not overdone... Looks like filmed at Leduc's Alberta Drill Rig museum NICE

[@richifitness8229]

I saw corb at a concert in birken head. His music is amazing- an inspiration to us all

[@sab85ful]

One of the only country acts I enjoy. Love the way the songs tell a story rather than crying about this or that.

[@3top5]

Such a good song! Dragons from the ground. What a line. Thanks fellers. ❤❤❤❤

[@jasondousett3620]

Haha yep and the green kings too! 😂😂😂

[@steveyarnell2.o]

Best song ever in the history of mankind!

[@michaelwilkerson5284]

I seen Corb play last night at the arbuckle ballroom in davis ok was the first time i ever heard him play and i am a new fan of his.god bless you canadians for allowing us americans to have music like this.

[@johnwipf9499]

Sure brings back memories. Miss the guys I worked with, especially the ones that passed on already. Too many young men died that didnt have to. But live hard and see if you make it was our creed. Crazy

[@DarrenTidd]

Hell yeah. I work in cementing, and I love to go out and do work for service rigs. Some of the best drill crews around.

[@GoViking933]

I’ve worked both and prefer the quiet professionalism of the service end to the rah rah of the diggers.

[@kurthobson9436]

Lol used to listen to this in the morning before we hit the road to our rig brings back good memories

[@travisdietrich5717]

Thanks a great complement to us Alberta patch workers.

[@RustyOldF250]

This is a great song, we need more country music like it! And the video is very well done too.

[@perrymac]

Nice to hear that they still DO write 'em like that!

[@PigPen5x2]

Damn-it.... I sure miss my rig... knew I had been.. BUT DAMN !!! Now I'm wantin to go pull back a few stands on a 12hr tripp... Almost felt like I was walking across those pits headed to the mud house when I close my eye...

[@lajenahonsaker1968]

My first husband worked rigs our whole marriage. One i company I remember is Dixiland Field in Cairo Egypt and Lagos Africa. But many US rigs. He was a driller.

[@cixstring6885]

I love this song. Just got my first job in the oilfield right out of high school. Really excited for it.

[@lance-biggums]

Good luck, keep your head on a swivel

[@constancemiller3753]

Congrats.

[@declanmacleod371]

I work for Ensign Well Servicing, as a roughneck floorhand, rig #1133

[@taradeleeuw2344]

So happy circles have arrived ,Corb Lund and horses KD Lang and influencers

[@southtexasbrushcountryboy4176]

One of the best Oilfield 🛢️songs ever 👍💪 Awesome Song's from Great Singer 📻 Songwriter 👌🔥pulling 🐉 Dragons 💥 from the ground👏👊 🇨🇦🇺🇸🤜🤛

[@glennmuir5617]

needs more emojis

[@jasper1414]

man! I love my fellow Prarie people ;D haha love Corb!

[@fancyUltra]

Midland Tx, Roughneckin represent!

[@sherrijones929]

Just found this country up and comer! Love his look, style, and his Band. Keep smiling those dimples Corb! Stay true to your roots and you'll do just fine!! Get him, cowboy!!

[@gabegodin2730]

Corb Lund and The Hurtin Albertans aren't exactly "up and coming"

[@gabegodin2730]

Dude they've been around since the mid nineties

[@MadasynDanberg]

Lyrics He got a real long reach in the derrick when he leans He's been all around the world on the big oil rigs With the welders and the trucks on the black gold rush And the diesel burnin' Cat motors growlin' and the mud You'd better hire him on, he's the roughest neck around He got the power in his hands to pull the dragons from the ground Yeah. It's 35 below or its 98 above And he's workin' thru it all, cuz baby this is what he loves Drives a hundred-fifty miles make sure his kids are doin' fine And he sees 'em when he can but he's married to his iron You'd better hire him on, he's the roughest neck around He got the power in his hands to pull the dragons from the ground Yeah. He's a good hand to have on, and he's throwin' on the tongs Spinnin' chain and slidin' high side all night long And he's tripping in his pipe, and he torques it good and tight And ya gotta figure Eddy's got his mud weight right You'd better hire him on cuz he's better than the rest He got the power in his hands and the dragons in his chest Yeah. Well, his mind's a little tired but his back is plenty strong Got his green kings and filthy, frozen coveralls on And he's drilling by the inch and he's hauling on the winch Takin' fuel from the tanks on his short change shift You'd better hire him on, he's the roughest neck around He got the power in his hands to pull the dragons from the ground Yeah, you'd better hire him on cuz he's better than the rest He got the power in his heart and the dragons in his chest Yeah. He brings the power to the people Power to the people Cuz he's the roughest neck around He's pullin' dragons from the ground

[@joseescobar76]

Love you guys!!! hats off! big Hi from Colombia S.America!

[@crazychicktwo]

If you love this video vote Devon for Small Town Satrday Night in the Big Valley Jamboree competition. We've been pulling dragons for 65 years and we are damn proud of it! Woooo Hoooo BVJ!

[@adamszayden8330]

Hello crazychicktwo

[@aaronpritchett2049]

Hello

[@aaronpritchett2049]

Hello I’m Aaron Pritchett a Canadian country music singer ,I want to appreciate fans who love country music you are the best , I love you all. You can contact me on [e-mail]

[@iansuntjenssli9739]

I loved it started at sixteen

[@gregabbot4631]

Hey George Jones the shoes are filled, we're going to need more.

[@guytitanic]

We all live in North America dudes,quit your arguing!Good music is good music no matter the latitude, so quit your attitude(I think I gotta Country song comin on)

[@odjickfan]

real music from real people for real people! :)

[@andrewyoung9751]

Lovin this song

[@frazerdaman]

-55 is the coldest weather i've been in up in mclennan ab near high prairie

[@ghroit]

Corb Lund is cool. This music is great. Also gotta add that last time I checked, NO ONE in country music uses Auto-tune (F*** Yeah)!!!!

[@vladtheinhaler146]

This one is for you Dad 👨 turn it all the way up until the angles come knocking.

[@twistedoar]

i love this tune and the location. My son Carter and I travelled Alberta looking at the coal mining in Drummheller valley and up in search of Leduc #1, the first major oil strike, and we found it. It was amazing to see all the machines they used. Thanks for the video, your songs take me right back to Alberta!

[@lance-biggums]

I worked in that coal mine museum in Drum doing landscaping, maintenance, servicing equipment. Great place.

[@kona2kona]

Written for his bro, I love this song. When i'm cruisin in my dually deisel with my trailer behind with three silent passengers in tow I play this one and Hurtin' albertans so loud especially when coming up from the state jackpots rollin back into canada cross sweetgrass :)

[@JH-qs7ph]

Tim Hus is God

[@TESLAac130]

Best job in the world!

[@STFUmorons]

I was a worm at 17 yrs old on the Sedneth#1 in the GOM (1975). Damn I wish I could go back to those days.

[@walk2write]

I love it! Pulling dragons from the ground is a thought-provoking image. Mr. Lund, you should see about performing at the next IOGA convention. I believe it's in February. Oilmen from the Midwest would get a kick out of this song.

[@EJKMuffin]

this reminds me of my dad, he doesn't work on an oil rig or anything, but he's a hard worker and good at almost everything he tries to do. But man the guy is a grouch

[@shelleyskrepnek5398]

One of my favourites.

[@larrycourtney5638]

I roughnecked for 5 years and I'm very glad to have all my fingers and toes, very happy I didn't fall out of the derrick when I had to come out of my safety belt to retrieve a set of drill collars that got away from me.Drill on boys.

[@MrMeuli]

man love this singer sound to be a Canadian lad so im not far off here in Montana

[@Connor-ll7ii]

I'm a North Dakotan

[@RangerJones]

Hell Yeah !

[@Fenrirfallen1]

First timer here, but damn that dude sounds nonchalant cool saying "yeah"👌

[@TheJodilena]

I'm a born and raised Alberta girl.....what does Alberta have a lot of? Rigs and riggers! love it.

[@MrGrenadeMcBoom]

Not often a Canadian can get a Texan to scootin but this is a great damn song.

[@angelhix3568]

Yes! All the way!!!

[@byronumphress3805]

✝️🌹🕊GOD BLESS ALL

[@iansuntjenssli9739]

I’ll never forget 😀😔

[@lancebond2600]

Love the song. Remember the time I worked in the oil fields from Oklahoma to California to Texas

[@Jaredsfarm]

you said it,bro

[@Rokr424]

I pass where they shot this video every time I go to chill with my friends. :)

[@sheshowjumps]

My all time fav corb song! I dunno about you guys but it makes me wanna two step lol

[@FalbertForester]

Love the archival footage

[@Madafuka22]

haha. I work on a 1952 model rig, wooden floors, 2 manual tongs and a spinnin chain. its a double, our derrick stands around 105 feet, and our board is around 60 something. Its hard out there sometimes the old ways but we all love it!

[@mindovermatter2009secretstash]

I love Corb Lund-Go Canada! Lisa,M.O.M. Everything he sings is awesome,fun/funny and has down home heart and soul.

[@adamszayden8330]

Hello mindovernatter

[@MrGrxxx123]

corb!! dam good musik!

[@TXiron87]

Merry Christmas to all the hands out there, sacrificin this time for your families! 🍻👊 keep er turnin to the right!!

[@timothyhanson6486]

I was watching "Slither" and heard this song during one scene. The song was way better than the movie.

[@DogeBluesnow]

I love your song

[@crackerjacks46]

Way to go guys! All your music makes this grandma want to get up and dance. Awesome!

[@xworm5009]

When this song came out my dad and I went to Leduc to take a photo there on Leduc 1 he allways used to tell me the song was about him still listening to the song when I’m driving out to a site lol

[@glennjames9822]

FRIGGING AWESOME!!! Why did I not know of this...

[@hillbillyblunt6021]

Love this one!!!

[@Veradoradehon]

My favourite Corb Lund song and video!!