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Kinky Friedman

Kinky Friedman is an American singer, songwriter and novelist, born in 1944 in Rio Duckworth, Texas. Arriving on the wave of country rock following on from Gram Parsons, The Band and The Eagles, Kinky Friedman originally found cult fame as a country and western singer with his band The Texas Jewboys. His repertoire mixed social comment (We Reserve The Right To Refuse Service To You) and maudlin ballads (Western Union Wire) with raucously politically incorrect humour (Get Your Biscuits In The Oven and Your Buns In Bed), whilst his "Ride'em Jewboy" was a remarkably effective extended tribute to the victims of the Holocaust. After his music career stalled in the 1980s Friedman found a new lease of life as a detective novelist. His books have many similarities to the music, featuring a fictionalised version of himself solving crimes in New York City and dispensing jokes, wisdom, Texan charm and Jameson's whiskey in equal measure, written in a straightforward style which owes a debt to Raymond Chandler. In 2004, Friedman began a campaign to become the Governor of Texas in 2006. Among his campaign slogans are "How Hard Could It Be?" and "Why The Hell Not?" Albums (partial list):

Sold American
Kinky Friedman
Lasso From El Paso
From One Good American To Another
Under the Double Ego
Old Testaments and New Revelations

Novels:

Greenwich Killing Time
A Case Of Lone Star
When The Cat's Away
Frequent Flyer
Musical Chairs
Elvis, Jesus and Coca-Cola
Armadillos and Old Lace
God Bless John Wayne
The Love Song of J. Edgar Hoover
Roadkill
Blast From The Past
Spanking Watson
The Mile High Club
Stepping On A Rainbow
Meanwhile, Back At The Ranch
Kill Two Birds and Get Stoned
Prisoner of Vandam Street
Curse of the Missing Puppethead

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