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Kinky Friedman, Musician and Humorist Who Slew Sacred Cows, Dies at 79
NYT ^ | 6/27/24 | Clay Risen

Posted on 06/27/2024 10:37:24 AM PDT by Round Earther

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 Don’t Make Jews Like Jesus Anymore” — and whose biting cultural commentary earned him comparisons with Will Rogers and Mark Twain — died on Wednesday at his ranch near Austin, Texas. He was 79.

Little Jewford, a member of his band and a longtime friend, confirmed the death. He did not specify a cause, but he said that Mr. Friedman had been ill in recent months.

Mr. Friedman occupied a singular spot on the fringes of American popular culture, alongside acts like Jello Biafra, the Dead Milkmen and Mojo Nixon.

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To: llevrok

Yes they were! Saw him a few times back then..


21 posted on 06/27/2024 11:18:36 AM PDT by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: ifinnegan

He actually wrote several, though to be fair they were pretty much the same book each time. It was a pretty good book however.
Was always my answer to “who is the most famous member of the University of Texas honors program?”


22 posted on 06/27/2024 11:21:28 AM PDT by organicchemist (Without the second amendment, the first amendment is just talk)
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To: Psalm 73
"Mojo Nixon died in February."

Wow. Didn't hear about that.

Elvis needs boats.

RIP both of you guys.

23 posted on 06/27/2024 11:22:20 AM PDT by SnuffaBolshevik
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To: BigEdLB

IIRC, he was also a pal of GW Bush way back when.

‘Pearls in the Snow’ is a tribute album by various country music stars.


24 posted on 06/27/2024 11:30:30 AM PDT by jjotto ( Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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To: Round Earther
"Be my friend, I-man!"

R.I.P.

25 posted on 06/27/2024 12:01:33 PM PDT by LIConFem (DOJ's new motto: Fair is foul, and foul is fair.)
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To: Round Earther

Imus used to mention him often.


26 posted on 06/27/2024 12:22:49 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Never Trust A Man Whose Uncle Was Eaten By Cannibals)
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To: Round Earther

Funny guy when it was OK to be funny.


27 posted on 06/27/2024 12:36:52 PM PDT by Vermont Lt (Don’t vote for anyone over 70 years old. Get rid of the geriatric politicians.)
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To: Vermont Lt

Funny guy when it was OK to be funny.

They can’t write songs named “They Ain’t Makin’ Jews Like Jesus Anymore”anymore.


28 posted on 06/27/2024 1:17:15 PM PDT by Round Earther
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To: Round Earther

Very beloved in Texas, where people used to think highly of unusual and snarky individuals. Don’t know if it’s still that way. He had big respect in the music community. People who didn’t agree with him generally respected him too.


29 posted on 06/27/2024 1:34:54 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Are you ready for Black Lives MAGA? It's coming.)
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To: Chode

Great line.

I have a large Cuban cigar collection.

I explain that I smoke cigars from people who stole their land and I do so on property we stole from the Indians.

;-)


30 posted on 06/27/2024 1:37:16 PM PDT by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Yeah, that’s how he was living. I asked Google about any hit records:

“In music, Friedman never had a hit record, but the title track from his 1973 debut album Sold American cracked the Top 70 of Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart, and his eponymous sophomore LP dented the Billboard 200 the following year.”


31 posted on 06/27/2024 1:40:32 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Are you ready for Black Lives MAGA? It's coming.)
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To: cgbg

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32 posted on 06/27/2024 1:40:37 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: cgbg

“I explain that I smoke cigars from people who stole their land and I do so on property we stole from the Indians.”

When it comes to Indians I tell people we didn’t steal the land, we conquered it, just like everywhere else where it’s worth living has been conquered.


33 posted on 06/27/2024 1:45:56 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Are you ready for Black Lives MAGA? It's coming.)
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To: Dr. Franklin

I remember him from Imus.


34 posted on 06/27/2024 1:52:26 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Navarro didn't kill himself.)
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To: organicchemist

Yeah. I only read one, the first. Greenwich Killing Time. (I looked it up).

Your comment made me remember I think I did read the second, but, yes, it was the same, didn’t like it. Didn’t pay any more attention to him after that.


35 posted on 06/27/2024 1:57:02 PM PDT by ifinnegan (MDemocrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: bigbob

The Asshole from El Paso was a song of his I think.


36 posted on 06/27/2024 3:04:18 PM PDT by ABN 505 (Right is right if nobody is right, and wrong is wrong if everybody is wrong. ~Archbishop Fulton John)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

It’s “down home.” I don’t know if it’s his house. It could be a vacation shack or a friend’s house where they’d “pick ’n’ grin.”


37 posted on 06/27/2024 4:09:36 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (Either ‘the Deep State destroys America, or we destroy the Deep State.’ --Donald Trump)
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To: Round Earther
Mojo Nixon died in February.

I suspect he now knows that Elvis isn't everywhere.

38 posted on 06/27/2024 4:14:51 PM PDT by Lovely-Day-For-A-Guinness (Jesus rides beside me, He never buys any smokes)
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To: PermaRag

When he ran for governor, he had one the best ever campaign slogans.

“Kinky for Governor. Why the Hell Not?”


39 posted on 06/27/2024 6:05:17 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (A truth that’s told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent ~ Wm. Blake)
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