Songfacts®:

• This 1974 single was one of McCartney's biggest solo hits, peaking at #3 on the Billboard Hot 100, continuing his success after "Band On The Run." At the time he wrote "Junior's Farm," he was staying at the Lebanon, Tennessee farm of Curly Putman Jr., which is how he got the title. >>

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• The song's B-side, "Sally G," was recorded at the same in Nashville. It charted separately peaking at #17 on the Hot 100 as well as reaching the Country charts.
• This was the last Paul McCartney song to be released on Apple Records.
• The song was covered by the Heavy Metal band Galactic Cowboys on their 1996 EP Feel The Rage.
• Putman was a songwriter from Nashville whose greatest success was "Green Green Grass Of Home." He told The Tennessean McCartney and Wings rented his farm for six weeks while recording in Nashville "for a pretty good little chunk of money." Meanwhile, Putman and his wife treated themselves to a trip to Hawaii.
  
  When Putman and his wife returned to their farm, McCartney saw them walking up the driveway. Macca and the band greeted them by playing "Green, Green Grass of Home."
• Jimmy McCulloch, Wings lead guitarist and bassist from 1974 to 1977, made his debut with the band on this song.