The music producer David Mansfield flew down to Austin in May 2023 to record with Kinky Friedman, the satirical country singer,...
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The late Kinky Friedman hasn't made his last pithy musical observations yet. His posthumous album Poet of Motel 6 will be released March 21...
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The storied Echo Hill Ranch, where Kinky Friedman lived for over 40 years, is now the birthplace of his final masterpiece, Poet of Motel 6.
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Kinky Friedman's last performance was in October 2023 in Kerrville. The iconoclastic singer-songwriter, author and sometime politician died...
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Friedman launched a boisterous campaign for governor in 2006, decades after forming the band Kinky Friedman and The Texas Jewboys.
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Kinky Friedman, the provocative country musician, novelist and one-time politician, has died. He was 79.
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Kinky Friedman always had a way with words—something we at Texas Monthly spotted early on. Beyond his stint as a columnist for the magazine...
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When I read Kinky Friedman's obituary the other day I felt like crying and laughing. Laughing because I laughed at the lyrics to many of his...
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Kinky Friedman, a singer, songwriter, humorist and sometime politician who with his band, the Texas Jewboys, developed an ardent following among alt-country...
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The larger than life figure and his sister, Marcie, have opened their family's Medina-area summer camp to the children of fallen soldiers.
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