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Richard Samet "Kinky" Friedman (November 1, 1944 – June 27, 2024) [a] was an American singer, songwriter, novelist, humorist, politician, and columnist for Texas Monthly, who styled himself in the mold of popular American satirists Will Rogers and Mark Twain.
Official website for Author, Singer-songwriter, Humorist, and Governor of the Heart Of Texas, Kinky Friedman.
Jun 27, 2024 · Richard “Kinky” Friedman — the provocative and flamboyant Texas satirist who mounted a spirited campaign for governor in 2006 and was known for his boundary-pushing music and deep love for...
Jun 27, 2024 · Kinky Friedman, a singer, songwriter, humorist and sometime politician who with his band, the Texas Jewboys, developed an ardent following among alt-country music fans with songs like “ They...
Jun 27, 2024 · Kinky Friedman, the eccentric country singer-songwriter whose musings, novels, one-liners and quixotic gubernatorial run made him a folk hero, died Thursday at age 79 at his home in Texas.
Speaking of waves, his lifelong love of country music brought him his first wave of fame with Kinky Friedman and The Texas Jewboys, his band of impossibly stoned headnecks with whom he became the first full-blooded Jew to play Nashville’s revered Grand Ol’ Opry.
Jun 27, 2024 · Singer-songwriter and satirist Kinky Friedman has died at age 79. He passed way at his family’s Texas ranch near San Antonio. A statement posted to Friedman’s X account confirmed his...
Jun 27, 2024 · Kinky Friedman, who became a Texas folk hero as a flamboyant singer-songwriter, satirist, raconteur and would-be politician, running for governor in 2006 while jokingly declaring that he...
Jun 27, 2024 · Born Nov. 1, 1944, Friedman came to the music world’s attention in the early and mid-1970s with his band Kinky Friedman and the Texas Jewboys' absurdist satirical songs written in a folksy ...
Jun 27, 2024 · Kinky Friedman, the cigar-chomping, mustachioed Texan country singer and mystery novelist whose body of work often seemed like the un-kosher marriage of the Borscht Belt and the Bible...