#Kinky Friedman

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(via Kinky Friedman, Musician and Humorist Who Slew Sacred Cows, Dies at 79 - The New York Times)

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R.I.P. Kinky Friedman

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“They ain’t makin jews like Jesus anymore “

RIP Kinky

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No one told me that Kinky Friedman died on June 27th of this year!!

Kinky's first album, 1974. It was him, not Bukowski, that said "you've got to find what you love and let it kill you."

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Kinky Friedman, John Townes Van Zandt, and Billy Joe Shaver

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RIP Kinky Friedman

November 1, 1944 – June 27, 2024

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Kinky Friedman, 1944-2024

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Kinky was our Will Rogers.

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Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh.

Ride, ride 'em jewboy, Ride 'em all around the old corral. I'm, I'm with you boy If I've got to ride six million miles.

Now the smokes from camps are rising See the helpless creatures on their way. Hey, old pal, ain't it surprising How far you can go before you stay.

Don't you let the morning blind ya When on your sleeve you wore the yeller star. Old memories still live behind ya, Can't you see by your outfit who you are.

How long will you be driven relentless ¡®round the world, The blood in the rhythm of the soul.

Wild ponies all your dreams were broken, Rounded out and made to move along. The loneliness which can't be spoken Just swings a rope and rides inside a song.

Dead limbs play with ringless fingers A melody which burns you deep inside. Oh, how the song becomes the singers, May peace be ever with you as you ride.

How long will you be driven relentless around the world, The blood in the rhythm of the soul.

In the window candles glowing Remind you that today you are a child, Road ahead, forever rolling, And anything worth cryin' can be smiled.

So ride, ride 'em jewboy, Ride 'em all around the old corral. I'm, I'm with you boy If I've got to ride six million miles.

Ooh ooh ooh, Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh. Ooh ooh ooh, Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh.

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Oh man, RIP Kinky. I've loved this guy and everything he's done and made since I was a kid. I listened to his music, I read his mystery novels, I cheered on his political career. The Kinkster did it all.

America has lost a truly unique character who never let himself be put into a single box.

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Sad news this morning. The legendary Kinky Friedman has died. He was 79. Irreverent, iconoclastic, but with a heart as big as Texas, he lived on his own terms. Truly one of a kind.

I'm trying to figure out what my favorite Kinky quote is. Among them:

1) "If elected, the first thing I'll do is demand a recount."

2) "A fool and his money are soon elected."

3) "There's a fine line between fiction and non-fiction, and I believe I snorted it in 1976."

4) "I believe musicians can run this state a lot better than politicians. We just won't get much done in the morning."

5) "Remember: Y'all is singular. All y'all is plural. All y'all's is plural possessive."

6) “Money can buy you a fine dog, but only love can make him wag his tail.”

7) "Friedman's just another word for nothing left to lose."

Kinky was not a native Texan, but he once said that he had to come to Texas because we were the only state that would put up with his nonsense. It was here that he caught up to his future. There will never be another like him.

I was a volunteer on his 2006 Texas Gubernatorial campaign. Would have been much better off with him than with George W Bush/Rick Perry/Greg Abbott these past 30 years.

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Kinky Friedman Passes

Sad news on Wikipedia today: Singer, songwriter, author, satirist, raconteur, politician, and peaceful warrior, Kinky Friedman has passed.

If you were lucky enough to see him live, you saw all those qualities and more. Kinky was a one of a kind human being -- a fact that's captured in his crime novels, all of which feature Kinky and his old Peace Corps buddies in the role of communal crime solvers.

RIP, Kinky; you will be sorely missed here. But, I know there are some Israeli and Palestinian kids who celebrate your return to the Good Place today.

RIP, Richard "Kinky" Friedman. May his memory be a blessing.

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Texas Jewboy Kinky Friedman Dies at 79

Kinky Friedman, the politically incorrect, often controversial, leader of the Texas Jewboys, has died at 79, his family said.

Friedman died June 26 in Texas. No cause was given.

“Kinkster endured tremendous pain and unthinkable loss in recent years but he never lost his fighting spirit and quick wit,” Friedman’s family said. “Kinky will live on as his books are read and his songs are sung.”

Friedman was “a true Texas Renaissance man,” Dallas Wayne said in remembering “one of those magical folks that made Austin weird and wonderful.”

“He was Will Rogers, Groucho Marx and Mark Twain all rolled into one,” Wayne said. “We will miss our friend.”

Session bassist and fascinating character Leland Sklar called Friedman “one of the more fascinating characters I have had the pleasure of working with.”

In addition to the Jewboys and such songs as “They Ain’t Makin’ Jews Like Jesus Anymore,” Friedman was an author, an animal-rights advocate and once ran for governor of Texas.

“My heart is broken,” Buddy Miller said. “In losing Kinky Friedman, I have lost a friend and we have all lost a dear soul and a brilliant mind.”

Always controversial, Friedman and the Jewboys hold the dubious distinction of being the only act to tape an episode of “Austin City Limits” that never ran, the show’s producer, Terry Lickona, told the Austin Chronicle.

“I think it was a great show, and it might be as offensive today as it was back then,” he said.

Asleep at the Wheel’s Ray Benson offered “condolences to the Friedman family and to all the dogs who loved the Kinkster” and made one final wish for his friend.

“Hope they have cigars in heaven,” Benson said.

6/27/24

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Kinky Friedman, Musician and Humorist Who Slew Sacred Cows, Dies at 79