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class="infobox-data">June 27, 2024<span style="display:none">(2024-06-27)</span> (aged 79)<sup id="cite_ref-DoD_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DoD-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><br /><a href="/wiki/Medina,_Bandera_County,_Texas" title="Medina, Bandera County, Texas">Medina, Texas</a>, U.S.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Political party</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic</a> (2009–2024)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Other political<br />affiliations</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> (2004–2009)<br /><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a> (before 2004)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Education</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/University_of_Texas_at_Austin" title="University of Texas at Austin">University of Texas, Austin</a> (<a href="/wiki/Bachelor_of_Arts" title="Bachelor of Arts">BA</a>)</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><b>Musical career</b></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Genres</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">.mw-parser-output .hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul{margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt,.mw-parser-output .hlist li{margin:0;display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol 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href="/wiki/Progressive_country" title="Progressive country">progressive country</a><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li><li><a href="/wiki/Country_rock" title="Country rock">country rock</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Outlaw_country" title="Outlaw country">outlaw country</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Instruments</th><td class="infobox-data note">Vocals, guitar</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span class="nowrap">Years active</span></th><td class="infobox-data">1964–2018</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://kinkyfriedman.com">kinkyfriedman<wbr />.com</a></span></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"> <div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Musical artist</div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Richard Samet</b> "<b>Kinky</b>" <b>Friedman</b> (November 1, 1944 – June 27, 2024)<sup id="cite_ref-DoD_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DoD-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> was an American singer, songwriter, novelist, humorist, politician, and columnist for <i><a href="/wiki/Texas_Monthly" title="Texas Monthly">Texas Monthly</a></i>, who styled himself in the mold of popular American satirists <a href="/wiki/Will_Rogers" title="Will Rogers">Will Rogers</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mark_Twain" title="Mark Twain">Mark Twain</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Friedman was one of two <a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">independent</a> candidates in the <a href="/wiki/2006_Texas_gubernatorial_election" title="2006 Texas gubernatorial election">2006 Texas gubernatorial election</a>. Receiving 12.6% of the vote, Friedman placed fourth in the six-person race. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Biography">Biography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kinky_Friedman&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Biography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Richard Samet Friedman was born in <a href="/wiki/Chicago" title="Chicago">Chicago</a> on November 1, 1944,<sup id="cite_ref-post_obit_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-post_obit-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> to Jewish parents, Dr. S. Thomas Friedman and his wife Minnie (Samet) Friedman.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:0_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Both of his parents were the children of <a href="/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Russia" title="History of the Jews in Russia">Russian Jewish</a> immigrants.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_16-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> When Friedman was young, his family moved to the <a href="/wiki/Texas_Hill_Country" title="Texas Hill Country">Texas Hill Country</a> where they opened a summer camp called <a href="/wiki/Echo_Hill_Ranch" title="Echo Hill Ranch">Echo Hill Ranch</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_16-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Friedman had an early interest in both pop music and <a href="/wiki/Chess" title="Chess">chess</a>, and was chosen at age seven as one of 50 local players to challenge U.S. grandmaster <a href="/wiki/Samuel_Reshevsky" title="Samuel Reshevsky">Samuel Reshevsky</a> to simultaneous games in <a href="/wiki/Houston" title="Houston">Houston</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:3_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:3-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Reshevsky won all 50 games, but Friedman was, by far, the youngest competitor. </p><p>Friedman graduated from <a href="/wiki/Austin_High_School_(Austin,_Texas)" class="mw-redirect" title="Austin High School (Austin, Texas)">Austin High School</a> in <a href="/wiki/Austin,_Texas" title="Austin, Texas">Austin, Texas</a>, in 1962. He subsequently earned a Bachelor of Arts from the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Texas_at_Austin" title="University of Texas at Austin">University of Texas at Austin</a> in 1966, majoring in <a href="/wiki/Psychology" title="Psychology">psychology</a>. He took part in the <a href="/wiki/Plan_II_Honors" class="mw-redirect" title="Plan II Honors">Plan II Honors</a> program and was a member of the <a href="/wiki/Tau_Delta_Phi" title="Tau Delta Phi">Tau Delta Phi</a> fraternity. During his first year, <a href="/wiki/Chinga_Chavin" title="Chinga Chavin">Chinga Chavin</a> gave Friedman the nickname "Kinky" because of his curly hair.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Friedman served two years in the United States <a href="/wiki/Peace_Corps" title="Peace Corps">Peace Corps</a>, teaching in <a href="/wiki/Borneo" title="Borneo">Borneo</a>, <a href="/wiki/Malaysia" title="Malaysia">Malaysia</a><sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> with John Gross. During his service in the Peace Corps, he met future road manager Dylan Ferrero, with whom he worked for the remainder of his life.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Friedman lived at <a href="/wiki/Echo_Hill_Ranch" title="Echo Hill Ranch">Echo Hill Ranch</a>, his family's summer camp near <a href="/wiki/Kerrville" class="mw-redirect" title="Kerrville">Kerrville</a>, <a href="/wiki/Texas" title="Texas">Texas</a>. He founded Utopia Animal Rescue Ranch, also located near Kerrville, whose mission is to care for stray, abused and aging animals; to date, the ranch has saved more than 1,000 dogs from <a href="/wiki/Animal_euthanasia" title="Animal euthanasia">animal euthanasia</a>. </p><p>On June 27, 2024, it was announced that Friedman had died at his home at Echo Hill Ranch, <a href="/wiki/Medina,_Bandera_County,_Texas" title="Medina, Bandera County, Texas">Medina, Bandera County, Texas</a>, from complications of <a href="/wiki/Parkinson%27s_disease" title="Parkinson's disease">Parkinson's disease</a>. He was 79.<sup id="cite_ref-DoD_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DoD-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Music_career">Music career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kinky_Friedman&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Music career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Friedman formed his first band, King Arthur & the Carrots, while a student at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Texas_at_Austin" title="University of Texas at Austin">University of Texas at Austin</a>. The band, which poked fun at <a href="/wiki/Surf_music" title="Surf music">surf music</a>, recorded only one single in 1966 ("Schwinn 24/Beach Party Boo Boo"). </p><p>By 1973, Friedman had formed his second band, Kinky Friedman and The Texas Jewboys, which many took to be a play on the name of the famous band <a href="/wiki/Bob_Wills_and_His_Texas_Playboys" class="mw-redirect" title="Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys">Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In keeping with the band's <a href="/wiki/Satire" title="Satire">satirical</a> nature, each member had a comical name: in addition to Kinky there were Little Jewford, Big Nig, Panama Red, Wichita Culpepper, Sky Cap Adams, Rainbow Colours, and Snakebite Jacobs.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_22-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> More conventionally named roadie Jack Slaughter and road manager Dylan Ferrero rounded out the crew and provided most of the driving of the "tour bus", a <a href="/wiki/Cadillac" title="Cadillac">Cadillac</a> with 10-year-old expired license plates and a propensity to break down (but, according to Friedman, her talent lay in her ability to stop on a <a href="/wiki/Dime_(United_States_coin)" title="Dime (United States coin)">dime</a> and pick up the change). </p><p>Friedman's father objected to the name of the band, calling it a "negative, hostile, peculiar thing",<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which gave Kinky even more reason to choose the name. </p><p>Arriving on the wave of <a href="/wiki/Country_rock" title="Country rock">country rock</a> following on from <a href="/wiki/Gram_Parsons" title="Gram Parsons">Gram Parsons</a>, <a href="/wiki/The_Band" title="The Band">The Band</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Eagles_(band)" title="Eagles (band)">Eagles</a>, Friedman originally found cult fame as a <a href="/wiki/Country_and_western" class="mw-redirect" title="Country and western">country and western</a> singer. His break came in 1973 thanks to Commander Cody of <a href="/wiki/Commander_Cody_and_His_Lost_Planet_Airmen" title="Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen">Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen</a>, who contacted Vanguard Music on his behalf. Friedman released <i>Kinky Friedman</i> in 1974 for <a href="/wiki/ABC_Records" title="ABC Records">ABC Records</a>, then toured with <a href="/wiki/Bob_Dylan" title="Bob Dylan">Bob Dylan</a> in 1975–1976.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His repertoire mixed <a href="/wiki/Social_commentary" title="Social commentary">social commentary</a> ("We Reserve the Right to Refuse Service to You") and maudlin ballads ("Western Union Wire") with raucous humor (such as "Get Your Biscuits in the Oven and Your Buns in the Bed"). His "Ride 'Em Jewboy" was an extended tribute to the victims of <a href="/wiki/The_Holocaust" title="The Holocaust">the Holocaust</a>. </p><p>One of his most famous songs is "They Ain't Makin' Jews Like Jesus Anymore," a song in which Kinky verbally and physically beats up a drunken white racist who berates blacks, Jews, Italians, Greeks, and <a href="/wiki/Sigma_Nu" title="Sigma Nu">Sigma Nus</a> in a bar, with lyrics such as, </p> <blockquote><div class="poem"> <p>Oh, they ain't makin' Jews like Jesus anymore,<br /> They ain't makin' carpenters that know what nails are for </p> </div></blockquote> <p>Other Friedman tunes include "The Ballad of Charles Whitman," in which Friedman lampooned <a href="/wiki/Charles_Whitman" title="Charles Whitman">Charles Whitman</a>'s <a href="/wiki/University_of_Texas_tower_shooting" title="University of Texas tower shooting">sniper attack</a> from the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Texas_at_Austin" title="University of Texas at Austin">University of Texas at Austin</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Main_Building_(University_of_Texas_at_Austin)" title="Main Building (University of Texas at Austin)">Main Building tower</a> on August 1, 1966. He also covered <a href="/wiki/Chinga_Chavin" title="Chinga Chavin">Chinga Chavin</a>'s "Asshole from <a href="/wiki/El_Paso" class="mw-redirect" title="El Paso">El Paso</a>", a parody of <a href="/wiki/Merle_Haggard" title="Merle Haggard">Merle Haggard</a>'s "<a href="/wiki/Okie_from_Muskogee_(song)" title="Okie from Muskogee (song)">Okie from Muskogee</a>". </p><p>One of Friedman's most infamous concerts was a 1973 performance in <a href="/wiki/Buffalo,_New_York" title="Buffalo, New York">Buffalo, New York</a>; upon performing "Get Your Biscuits in the Oven and Your Buns in the Bed" (a song that lampoons <a href="/wiki/Feminism" title="Feminism">feminism</a>), a group of what Friedman described as "cranked-up lesbians" entered into a fight with the band and forced the concert to end early while Friedman and the band were escorted off stage. The <a href="/wiki/National_Organization_for_Women" title="National Organization for Women">National Organization for Women</a> awarded Friedman the "Male Chauvinist Pig Award" later that year, an award Friedman took with pride. Friedman would not return to Buffalo until 2012.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Another was at <a href="/wiki/The_Boarding_House_(nightclub)" title="The Boarding House (nightclub)">The Boarding House</a> in early-March 1975 when an offended <a href="/wiki/Buffy_Sainte-Marie" title="Buffy Sainte-Marie">Buffy Sainte-Marie</a> rushed on stage and snatched the <a href="/wiki/War_bonnet" title="War bonnet">war bonnet</a> that Friedman was wearing while he and his band were performing "Miss Nickelodeon," a composition that spoofs the <a href="/wiki/Indigenous_peoples_of_the_Americas" title="Indigenous peoples of the Americas">indigenous peoples of the Americas</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Friedman and his band taped an <i><a href="/wiki/Austin_City_Limits" title="Austin City Limits">Austin City Limits</a></i> show on November 11, 1975, which was never aired.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to the show's executive producer, Terry Lickona, this is the first and only time in the show's long history that an episode went unaired. Lickona told the <i><a href="/wiki/Austin_Chronicle" class="mw-redirect" title="Austin Chronicle">Austin Chronicle</a></i> "I've seen it many times – it's a very popular party tape among friends. I think it was a great show, and it might be as offensive today as it was back then."<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In early 1976, he joined <a href="/wiki/Bob_Dylan" title="Bob Dylan">Bob Dylan</a> on the second leg of the <a href="/wiki/Rolling_Thunder_Revue" title="Rolling Thunder Revue">Rolling Thunder Revue</a> tour. </p><p>Friedman was the musical guest on the <a href="/wiki/Saturday_Night_Live_(season_2)" class="mw-redirect" title="Saturday Night Live (season 2)">Season 2</a> fifth episode of <i><a href="/wiki/Saturday_Night_Live" title="Saturday Night Live">Saturday Night Live</a></i> which aired on October 23, 1976. He performed his own composition "Dear Abbie".<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Although hard to verify, given the number of Jewish-origin entertainers in country/hillbilly-tour circles (e.g. Gilbert Maxwell "<a href="/wiki/Broncho_Billy_Anderson" title="Broncho Billy Anderson">Broncho Billy</a>" Anderson), Friedman claims to have been the first full-blooded Jew to take the stage at the <a href="/wiki/Grand_Ole_Opry" title="Grand Ole Opry">Grand Ole Opry</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In February 2007, Sustain Records released a compilation of the songs of Kinky Friedman sung by other artists called <i>Why the Hell Not ...</i> The compilation includes contributions by <a href="/wiki/Dwight_Yoakam" title="Dwight Yoakam">Dwight Yoakam</a>, <a href="/wiki/Willie_Nelson" title="Willie Nelson">Willie Nelson</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lyle_Lovett" title="Lyle Lovett">Lyle Lovett</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Kelly_Willis" title="Kelly Willis">Kelly Willis</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On July 20, 2007, Friedman hosted the Concert to Save Town Lake to honor the memory of <a href="/wiki/Lady_Bird_Johnson" title="Lady Bird Johnson">Lady Bird Johnson</a> and her efforts to protect and preserve the shores of <a href="/wiki/Town_Lake" class="mw-redirect" title="Town Lake">Town Lake</a> in Austin, Texas.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On April 27, 2011, Friedman launched his Springtime for Kinky Tour (cf. "<a href="/wiki/Springtime_for_Hitler_(song)" title="Springtime for Hitler (song)">Springtime for Hitler</a>") in <a href="/wiki/Kansas_City,_Missouri" title="Kansas City, Missouri">Kansas City</a>, Missouri, at <a href="/wiki/Knuckleheads_Saloon" title="Knuckleheads Saloon">Knuckleheads Saloon</a>; it included dates in Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Kentucky before heading towards the <a href="/wiki/East_Coast_of_the_United_States" title="East Coast of the United States">East Coast</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This was followed by a tour of Australia with <a href="/wiki/Van_Dyke_Parks" title="Van Dyke Parks">Van Dyke Parks</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Writing_career">Writing career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kinky_Friedman&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Writing career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>After his music career stalled in the 1980s, Friedman shifted his creative focus to writing <a href="/wiki/Detective_fiction" title="Detective fiction">detective novels</a>. His books have similarities to his song lyrics, featuring a <a href="/wiki/Author_surrogate" title="Author surrogate">fictionalized version of himself</a> solving crimes in New York City and dispensing jokes, wisdom, recipes, charm, and <a href="/wiki/Jameson_Irish_Whiskey" title="Jameson Irish Whiskey">Jameson's whiskey</a> in equal measure. They are written in a straightforward style which owes a debt to <a href="/wiki/Raymond_Chandler" title="Raymond Chandler">Raymond Chandler</a>. The Kinky character views himself as a latter-day <a href="/wiki/Sherlock_Holmes" title="Sherlock Holmes">Sherlock Holmes</a> and he is aided in his investigations by his close friend <a href="/wiki/Larry_Sloman" title="Larry Sloman">Larry Sloman</a> aka Ratso who assumes the role of <a href="/wiki/Dr._Watson" title="Dr. Watson">Dr. Watson</a>. </p><p>He authored two novels that do not star the Kinky Friedman character: <i>Kill Two Birds and Get Stoned</i> and <i>The Christmas Pig.</i> </p><p>Friedman also wrote a regular column for the magazine <i><a href="/wiki/Texas_Monthly" title="Texas Monthly">Texas Monthly</a></i> from April 2001 to March 2005 which was suspended during his run for governor of Texas.<sup id="cite_ref-txmonthly_37-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-txmonthly-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2008, <i>Texas Monthly</i> brought his column back on a bimonthly basis. </p><p>Two books have been published collecting some of these nonfiction writings, as well as previously unpublished ones: <i>Scuse Me While I Whip This Out</i> and <i>Texas Hold'em</i>. He has also published a travelog (<i>The Great Psychedelic Armadillo Picnic</i>) and an <a href="/wiki/Etiquette" title="Etiquette">etiquette</a> guide. </p><p>Friedman's early books have been republished by Friedman's own Vandam Press as ebooks. During March and April 2011, Vandam released seven of Friedman's early titles including: <i>Greenwich Killing Time, A Case of Lone Star, Musical Chairs, When The Cat's Away, Frequent Flyer, Roadkill</i> and the rarely seen <i>Curse of the Missing Puppet Head</i>. <i>Elvis Jesus and Coca-Cola, God Bless John Wayne, Blast From The Past, Armadillos and Old Lace</i>, and two nonfiction books, <i>Drinker With A Writing Problem</i> and <i>Heroes of A Texas Childhood</i> were released in 2011. <a href="/wiki/E-book" class="mw-redirect" title="E-book">E-book</a> releases are announced on Friedman's <a href="/wiki/X_(Twitter)" class="mw-redirect" title="X (Twitter)">X (Twitter)</a> feed and Facebook page, "TheRealKinkster". </p><p>Friedman also announced (via Jim Bessman's column at examiner.com) the upcoming release of all Vandam Press titles as unabridged audio books "read by the author". </p><p>The recurring character "Rambam", a New York private investigator and friend of the Friedman character in the books, is based on the real-life investigator <a href="/w/index.php?title=Steven_Rambam&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Steven Rambam (page does not exist)">Steven Rambam</a>, who acts as a technical advisor for the real Friedman.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Old Peace Corps friend and long time road manager Dylan Ferrero is also a recurring character in Kinky's mystery novels; his character is known for only speaking in rock and roll quotes, a trait taken from real life. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Politics">Politics</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kinky_Friedman&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Politics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/2006_Texas_gubernatorial_election" title="2006 Texas gubernatorial election">2006 Texas gubernatorial election</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Kinky_friedman_2006.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/33/Kinky_friedman_2006.jpg/220px-Kinky_friedman_2006.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="244" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/33/Kinky_friedman_2006.jpg/330px-Kinky_friedman_2006.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/33/Kinky_friedman_2006.jpg/440px-Kinky_friedman_2006.jpg 2x" data-file-width="983" data-file-height="1090" /></a><figcaption>Friedman contemplates a question from the audience at a campaign rally in <a href="/wiki/Bastrop,_Texas" title="Bastrop, Texas">Bastrop</a> during the 2006 Texas gubernatorial campaign.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Texas_Gubernatorial_Election_Results_by_County,_2006_Kinky_Friedman.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/Texas_Gubernatorial_Election_Results_by_County%2C_2006_Kinky_Friedman.svg/250px-Texas_Gubernatorial_Election_Results_by_County%2C_2006_Kinky_Friedman.svg.png" decoding="async" width="250" height="237" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/Texas_Gubernatorial_Election_Results_by_County%2C_2006_Kinky_Friedman.svg/375px-Texas_Gubernatorial_Election_Results_by_County%2C_2006_Kinky_Friedman.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/Texas_Gubernatorial_Election_Results_by_County%2C_2006_Kinky_Friedman.svg/500px-Texas_Gubernatorial_Election_Results_by_County%2C_2006_Kinky_Friedman.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="810" data-file-height="769" /></a><figcaption>Kinky's performance by county in 2006: <div class="collapsible-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="text-align: left;"> <div style="line-height: 1.6em; font-weight: bold;"><div>Friedman</div></div> <ul class="mw-collapsible-content" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin-left: 0;"><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><span style="margin:0px; font-size:90%;"><span style="border:none; background-color:#E5FFE5; color:#E5FFE5;">    </span> 0–5%</span> </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><span style="margin:0px; font-size:90%;"><span style="border:none; background-color:#D2F7D2; color:#D2F7D2;">    </span> 5–10%</span> </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><span style="margin:0px; font-size:90%;"><span style="border:none; background-color:#C0F0C0; color:#C0F0C0;">    </span> 10–15%</span> </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><span style="margin:0px; font-size:90%;"><span style="border:none; background-color:#AAE5AA; color:#AAE5AA;">    </span> 15–20%</span> </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><span style="margin:0px; font-size:90%;"><span style="border:none; background-color:#87DE87; color:#87DE87;">    </span> 20–25%</span> </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><span style="margin:0px; font-size:90%;"><span style="border:none; background-color:#5FD35F; color:#5FD35F;">    </span> 25–30%</span> </li></ul> </div></figcaption></figure> <p>In 1986, Friedman ran for <a href="/wiki/Justice_of_the_Peace" class="mw-redirect" title="Justice of the Peace">Justice of the Peace</a> in <a href="/wiki/Kerrville,_Texas" title="Kerrville, Texas">Kerrville, Texas</a>, as a <a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a> but lost the election.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2004, Friedman began an ostensibly serious, though colorful, campaign to become the <a href="/wiki/List_of_Governors_of_Texas" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Governors of Texas">Governor of Texas</a> in <a href="/wiki/Texas_gubernatorial_election,_2006" class="mw-redirect" title="Texas gubernatorial election, 2006">2006</a>. One of his stated goals is the "dewussification" of Texas.<sup id="cite_ref-de-wussification_40-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-de-wussification-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Among his campaign slogans were "How Hard Could It Be?", "Why The Hell Not?", "My Governor is a Jewish Cowboy", and "He ain't Kinky, he's my Governor"<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (cf. "<a href="/wiki/He_Ain%27t_Heavy,_He%27s_My_Brother" title="He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother">He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother</a>"). </p><p>Friedman had hoped to follow in the footsteps of other entertainers-turned-governors, including <a href="/wiki/Jimmie_Davis" title="Jimmie Davis">Jimmie Davis</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jesse_Ventura" title="Jesse Ventura">Jesse Ventura</a>, <a href="/wiki/Arnold_Schwarzenegger" title="Arnold Schwarzenegger">Arnold Schwarzenegger</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Ronald_Reagan" title="Ronald Reagan">Ronald Reagan</a>. Jesse Ventura even campaigned with Friedman for his election.<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> When the campaign finance reports came out after the second quarter had ended, Friedman had raised more funds than the <a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic</a> nominee, former <a href="/wiki/Congressman" class="mw-redirect" title="Congressman">Congressman</a> <a href="/wiki/Chris_Bell_(politician)" title="Chris Bell (politician)">Chris Bell</a>. </p><p>On election day, Friedman was defeated, receiving 12.6% of the votes in the six-candidate matchup. </p><p>Friedman released a statement on October 15, 2013, announcing his intent to again run for Texas agriculture commissioner as a Democrat. Friedman previously ran for the post in 2010, losing in the Democratic primary.<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Issues_and_positions">Issues and positions</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kinky_Friedman&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Issues and positions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Friedman supported the full legalization and cultivation of <a href="/wiki/Hemp" title="Hemp">hemp</a> and <a href="/wiki/Marijuana" class="mw-redirect" title="Marijuana">marijuana</a>, declaring that the end of the prohibition is a health, education funding, prison reduction, border security, and state's rights issue.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Dates_and_numbers#Chronological_items" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers"><span title="The time period mentioned near this tag is ambiguous. (January 2019)">when?</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>On education, he supported higher pay for teachers and working to lower Texas's dropout rate.<sup id="cite_ref-support_45-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-support-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He supported more investment in harnessing Texas's <a href="/wiki/Renewable_energy" title="Renewable energy">alternative fuel resources</a> such as wind and <a href="/wiki/Biodiesel" title="Biodiesel">biodiesel</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-support_45-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-support-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Friedman was opposed to the <a href="/wiki/Trans-Texas_Corridor" title="Trans-Texas Corridor">Trans-Texas Corridor</a> since it relies on toll road construction.<sup id="cite_ref-autogenerated1_46-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-autogenerated1-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On <a href="/wiki/Capital_punishment" title="Capital punishment">capital punishment</a>, he previously summed up his position, "I am not anti-death penalty, but I'm damn sure anti-the-wrong-guy-getting-executed."<sup id="cite_ref-cbsnews_47-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cbsnews-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> More recently, he clarified his position: "The system is not perfect. Until it's perfect, let's do away with the death penalty."<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On <a href="/wiki/Illegal_immigration" title="Illegal immigration">illegal immigration</a>, Friedman wanted to increase the number of <a href="/wiki/Texas_National_Guard" class="mw-redirect" title="Texas National Guard">Texas National Guard</a> troops on the border (from the current 1,500 to 10,000), impose $25,000 and $50,000 fines on companies that hire illegal immigrants, and require foreign nationals seeking employment to purchase a foreign taxpayer ID card once they have passed a criminal background check. "Texas can no longer wait for our federal government to solve our illegal immigration problem," Friedman said. "These are steps that Texas can immediately take to help stem the tide of illegal immigrants penetrating our border." Had he been elected, he had promised to meet regularly with Governor <a href="/wiki/Bill_Richardson" title="Bill Richardson">Bill Richardson</a> of <a href="/wiki/New_Mexico" title="New Mexico">New Mexico</a> and Governor <a href="/wiki/Janet_Napolitano" title="Janet Napolitano">Janet Napolitano</a> of <a href="/wiki/Arizona" title="Arizona">Arizona</a> to develop a coordinated border state plan to supplement federal efforts to curb illegal immigration.<sup id="cite_ref-autogenerated1_46-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-autogenerated1-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Previously, Kinky put forth the "Five Mexican Generals" Plan, to pay Mexican officials to halt immigration on their side of the border. Although he originally stated "When I talk about the five Mexican generals, people think I'm joking but I'm dead serious",<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Friedman later told the <i><a href="/wiki/Dallas_Morning_News" class="mw-redirect" title="Dallas Morning News">Dallas Morning News</a></i> that the plan, never meant to be carried out, was a joke with an element of seriousness.<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>According to his official website,<sup id="cite_ref-autogenerated1_46-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-autogenerated1-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Friedman's answer to the question "How does Kinky feel about abortion?" was "Kinky believes in a woman's right to choose." In person, he hedged his bets, saying "I'm not <a href="/wiki/Pro-life" class="mw-redirect" title="Pro-life">pro-life</a>, and I'm not <a href="/wiki/Pro-choice" class="mw-redirect" title="Pro-choice">pro-choice</a>. I'm <a href="/wiki/Professional_gridiron_football" title="Professional gridiron football">pro-football</a>."<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On social issues, he supported <a href="/wiki/Same-sex_marriage" title="Same-sex marriage">gay marriage</a>, answering an <a href="/wiki/Associated_Press" title="Associated Press">Associated Press</a> reporter's question on the subject on February 3, 2005, by saying, "I support gay marriage. I believe they have a right to be as miserable as the rest of us."<sup id="cite_ref-cbsnews_47-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cbsnews-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (Friedman himself never married.) </p><p>According to <i><a href="/wiki/Cigar_Aficionado" title="Cigar Aficionado">Cigar Aficionado</a></i> magazine, Friedman planned to roll back "any and all smoking bans" if elected. One of his favorite quotes came from <a href="/wiki/Mark_Twain" title="Mark Twain">Mark Twain</a>: "If smoking is not allowed in <a href="/wiki/Heaven" title="Heaven">heaven</a>, I shall not go."<sup id="cite_ref-cigar_52-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cigar-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Friedman supported the decriminalization of <a href="/wiki/Cannabis_(drug)" title="Cannabis (drug)">marijuana</a>, though he did not advocate making its sale legal. "I'm not talking about like <a href="/wiki/Amsterdam" title="Amsterdam">Amsterdam</a>," he noted, "We've got to clear some of the room out of the prisons so we can put the bad guys in there, like the pedophiles and the politicians."<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Further_political_activities">Further political activities</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kinky_Friedman&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Further political activities"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Kinky_Friedman.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/Kinky_Friedman.jpg/220px-Kinky_Friedman.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="218" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/Kinky_Friedman.jpg/330px-Kinky_Friedman.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/Kinky_Friedman.jpg/440px-Kinky_Friedman.jpg 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="792" /></a><figcaption>Friedman in 2006</figcaption></figure> <p>On August 9, 2007, the <i><a href="/wiki/Austin_American-Statesman" title="Austin American-Statesman">Austin American-Statesman</a></i> reported that Friedman was considering another run for governor of Texas in 2010. "I'm open to running", Friedman said, adding that he would not make a final decision until after the 2008 elections.<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On February 10, 2009, Friedman confirmed to the <a href="/wiki/Associated_Press" title="Associated Press">Associated Press</a> that he was still interested in running.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_55-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In an August 23, 2007 interview with the <i><a href="/wiki/Fort_Worth_Star-Telegram" title="Fort Worth Star-Telegram">Fort Worth Star-Telegram</a></i> and a February 10, 2009 interview with the Associated Press, Friedman stated that if he did run in 2010, he would run as a <a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democrat</a>, citing that "God probably couldn't have won as an independent" and that he was a Democrat all his life.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_55-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On April 14, 2009, Friedman announced in an email to supporters that he intended to make a second gubernatorial run, this time as a Democrat.<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Friedman then announced on December 14, 2009, that he was leaving the gubernatorial race and would instead seek the party nomination in March 2010 for Texas Agriculture Commissioner.<sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He lost the nomination to rancher Hank Gilbert in the primary held on March 2, 2010.<sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Other_work_and_references_in_popular_culture">Other work and references in popular culture</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kinky_Friedman&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Other work and references in popular culture"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Friedman appeared in the 2004 documentary film <i>Barbecue: A Texas Love Story</i> by Austin-based director <a href="/wiki/Chris_Elley" title="Chris Elley">Chris Elley</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the film, narrated by Governor <a href="/wiki/Ann_Richards" title="Ann Richards">Ann Richards</a>, Kinky exclaims that "Jesus loved Barbecue" and analyzes the speech patterns of Texans versus New Yorkers. Raw footage from Friedman's interview appears in the 2005 DVD release of the film. He appeared in other movies as well including <i><a href="/wiki/Loose_Shoes" title="Loose Shoes">Loose Shoes</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/The_Texas_Chainsaw_Massacre_2" title="The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2">The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2</a></i>. </p><p>Friedman's persona as a <a href="/wiki/Politically_incorrect" class="mw-redirect" title="Politically incorrect">politically incorrect</a> <a href="/wiki/Raconteur" class="mw-redirect" title="Raconteur">raconteur</a> has been likened to that of movie critic and commentator John Irving Bloom, better known in print as <a href="/wiki/Joe_Bob_Briggs" title="Joe Bob Briggs">Joe Bob Briggs</a>, with whom he appeared in the <a href="/wiki/B_movie" title="B movie">B movie</a> <i>The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Friedman preferred to smoke <a href="/wiki/Montecristo_(cigar_brand)" class="mw-redirect" title="Montecristo (cigar brand)">Montecristo</a> No. 2 Cigars, the same brand once smoked by <a href="/wiki/Fidel_Castro" title="Fidel Castro">Fidel Castro</a>. However, he also smoked <a href="/wiki/Bolivar_(cigar_brand)" class="mw-redirect" title="Bolivar (cigar brand)">Bolivars</a>, noting that "<a href="/wiki/Sim%C3%B3n_Bol%C3%ADvar" title="Simón Bolívar">Simón Bolívar</a> is the only person in history to be exiled from a <a href="/wiki/Bolivia" title="Bolivia">country named after him</a>."<sup id="cite_ref-cigar_52-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cigar-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Friedman later made eponymous cigars under the name Kinky Friedman Cigars.<sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Friedman was given brief praise in <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Heller" title="Joseph Heller">Joseph Heller</a>'s 1976 novel, <i><a href="/wiki/Good_as_Gold_(novel)" title="Good as Gold (novel)">Good as Gold</a></i>, in which a governor (meant to satirize <a href="/wiki/Lyndon_B._Johnson" title="Lyndon B. Johnson">Lyndon B. Johnson</a>), tells the main character, Bruce Gold: "Gold, I like you. You remind me a lot of this famous country singer from Texas I'm crazy about, a fellow calls himself Kinky Friedman, the Original Texas Jewboy. Kinky's smarter, but I like you more." </p><p>Friedman was friends with <a href="/wiki/Bill_Clinton" title="Bill Clinton">Bill Clinton</a> and <a href="/wiki/George_W._Bush" title="George W. Bush">George W. Bush</a>, and he visited both at the <a href="/wiki/White_House" title="White House">White House</a>. He wrote about his friendships with them in his November 2001 column ("Hail to the Kinkster")<sup id="cite_ref-txmonthly_37-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-txmonthly-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> for <i><a href="/wiki/Texas_Monthly" title="Texas Monthly">Texas Monthly</a></i>. </p><p>The play <a href="/w/index.php?title=Becoming_Kinky&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Becoming Kinky (page does not exist)"><i>Becoming Kinky: The World According to Kinky Friedman</i></a>, directed by Ted Swindley (<a href="/wiki/Patsy_Cline#Plays_and_musicals" title="Patsy Cline"><i>Always...Patsy Cline</i></a>), starring <a href="/wiki/Jesse_Dayton" title="Jesse Dayton">Jesse Dayton</a>, Little Jewford, Alan Lee, and Andross Bautsch, premiered in <a href="/wiki/Houston" title="Houston">Houston</a>, Texas on March 28, 2011.<sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Friedman was responsible for the quote "you've got to find what you love and let it kill you," which is often falsely attributed to the poet and novelist <a href="/wiki/Charles_Bukowski" title="Charles Bukowski">Charles Bukowski</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Friedman hosted the live concert music television show "Texas Roadhouse Live" around 2011, which would air on over-the-air network television late Saturday night (or midnight Sunday morning) in some Texas markets.<sup id="cite_ref-66" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template noprint Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:No_original_research#Primary,_secondary_and_tertiary_sources" title="Wikipedia:No original research"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable secondary sources. (March 2020)">non-primary source needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>On the 2017 album entitled <i>Out of All This Blue</i>, <a href="/wiki/Mike_Scott_(Scottish_musician)" title="Mike Scott (Scottish musician)">Mike Scott</a> of <a href="/wiki/The_Waterboys" title="The Waterboys">The Waterboys</a> composed a song called "Kinky's History Lesson" where the singer attempts to correct Friedman on a number of false statements he has allegedly made.<sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Discography">Discography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kinky_Friedman&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Discography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Albums">Albums</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kinky_Friedman&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Albums"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable sortable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Year </th> <th>Album </th> <th>Artist </th> <th>Label </th> <th style="width:45px;"><small><a href="/wiki/Billboard_200" title="Billboard 200">US</a> Chart</small> </th></tr> <tr> <td>1973 </td> <td><i>Sold American</i> </td> <td>Kinky Friedman </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Vanguard_Records" title="Vanguard Records">Vanguard</a> </td> <td style="text-align:center;">— </td></tr> <tr> <td>1974 </td> <td><i>Kinky Friedman</i> </td> <td>Kinky Friedman </td> <td><a href="/wiki/ABC_Records" title="ABC Records">ABC</a> </td> <td style="text-align:center;">132 </td></tr> <tr> <td>1976 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Lasso_from_El_Paso" title="Lasso from El Paso">Lasso from El Paso</a></i> </td> <td>Kinky Friedman </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Epic_Records" title="Epic Records">Epic</a> </td> <td style="text-align:center;">— </td></tr> <tr> <td>1977 </td> <td><i>Silver Jubilee 1953–1977</i> </td> <td>Echo Hill Ranch </td> <td>Echo Hill Ranch </td> <td style="text-align:center;">— </td></tr> <tr> <td>1982 </td> <td><i>Live from the Lone Star Cafe</i> </td> <td>Kinky Friedman </td> <td>Bruno-Dean </td> <td style="text-align:center;">— </td></tr> <tr> <td>1983 </td> <td><i>Under the Double Ego</i> </td> <td>Kinky Friedman </td> <td>Sunrise </td> <td style="text-align:center;">— </td></tr> <tr> <td>1992 </td> <td><i>Old Testaments & New Revelations</i> </td> <td>Kinky Friedman and the Texas Jewboys </td> <td rowspan="2">Fruit of the Tune </td> <td style="text-align:center;">— </td></tr> <tr> <td>1995 </td> <td><i>From One Good American to Another</i> </td> <td>Kinky Friedman and the Texas Jewboys </td> <td style="text-align:center;">— </td></tr> <tr> <td>1998 </td> <td><i>Pearls in the Snow – The Songs of Kinky Friedman</i> </td> <td>Kinky Friedman </td> <td>Kinkajou Records<sup id="cite_ref-69" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td style="text-align:center;">— </td></tr> <tr> <td>2003 </td> <td><i>Classic Snatches from Europe</i> </td> <td>Kinky Friedman </td> <td rowspan="2">Sphincter </td> <td style="text-align:center;">— </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2">2005 </td> <td><i>Mayhem Aforethought</i> </td> <td>Kinky Friedman and the Texas Jewboys </td> <td style="text-align:center;">— </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>They Ain't Making Jews Like Jesus Anymore</i> </td> <td>Kinky Friedman </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Bear_Family_Records" title="Bear Family Records">Bear Family</a> </td> <td style="text-align:center;">— </td></tr> <tr> <td>2006 </td> <td><i>The Last of the Jewish Cowboys: The Best Of</i> </td> <td>Kinky Friedman </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Shout!_Factory" class="mw-redirect" title="Shout! Factory">Shout! Factory</a> </td> <td style="text-align:center;">— </td></tr> <tr> <td>2007 </td> <td><i>Live from Austin, Texas</i> </td> <td>Kinky Friedman </td> <td><a href="/wiki/New_West_Records" title="New West Records">New West</a> </td> <td style="text-align:center;">— </td></tr> <tr> <td>2013 </td> <td><i>Lost and Found: The Famous Living Room Tape, 1970</i> </td> <td>Kinky Friedman and the Texas Jewboys </td> <td>Avenue A </td> <td style="text-align:center;">— </td></tr> <tr> <td>2015 </td> <td><i>The Loneliest Man I Ever Met</i> </td> <td>Kinky Friedman </td> <td>Avenue A </td> <td style="text-align:center;">— </td></tr> <tr> <td>2016 </td> <td><i>Resurrection</i> </td> <td>Kinky Friedman </td> <td>Echo Hill </td> <td style="text-align:center;">— </td></tr> <tr> <td>2018 </td> <td><i>Circus of Life</i> </td> <td>Kinky Friedman </td> <td>Echo Hill </td> <td style="text-align:center;">— </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Singles">Singles</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kinky_Friedman&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Singles"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th rowspan="2">Year </th> <th rowspan="2">Single </th> <th colspan="2">Chart Positions </th> <th rowspan="2">Album </th></tr> <tr> <th style="width:50px;"><small><a href="/wiki/Hot_Country_Songs" title="Hot Country Songs">US Country</a></small> </th> <th style="width:50px;"><small>CAN Country</small> </th></tr> <tr> <td>1973 </td> <td>"Sold American" </td> <td style="text-align:center;">69 </td> <td style="text-align:center;">92 </td> <td><i>Sold American</i> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2">1975 </td> <td>"Autograph" </td> <td style="text-align:center;">— </td> <td style="text-align:center;">— </td> <td rowspan="2"><i>Kinky Friedman</i> </td></tr> <tr> <td>"Popeye the Sailor Man" </td> <td style="text-align:center;">— </td> <td style="text-align:center;">— </td></tr> <tr> <td>1976 </td> <td>"Catfish" </td> <td style="text-align:center;">— </td> <td style="text-align:center;">— </td> <td><i>Lasso from El Paso</i> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Bibliography">Bibliography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kinky_Friedman&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Bibliography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1216972533">.mw-parser-output .col-begin{border-collapse:collapse;padding:0;color:inherit;width:100%;border:0;margin:0}.mw-parser-output .col-begin-small{font-size:90%}.mw-parser-output .col-break{vertical-align:top;text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .col-break-2{width:50%}.mw-parser-output .col-break-3{width:33.3%}.mw-parser-output .col-break-4{width:25%}.mw-parser-output .col-break-5{width:20%}@media(max-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .col-begin,.mw-parser-output .col-begin>tbody,.mw-parser-output .col-begin>tbody>tr,.mw-parser-output .col-begin>tbody>tr>td{display:block!important;width:100%!important}.mw-parser-output .col-break{padding-left:0!important}}</style><div> <table class="col-begin" role="presentation"> <tbody><tr> <td class="col-break col-break-2"> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Kinky_Friedman_Mysteries">Kinky Friedman Mysteries</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kinky_Friedman&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Kinky Friedman Mysteries"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>Greenwich Killing Time</i> (1986, <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited 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.cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-688-06409-4" title="Special:BookSources/0-688-06409-4">0-688-06409-4</a>)</li> <li><i>A Case Of Lone Star</i> (1987, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-517-69427-1" title="Special:BookSources/0-517-69427-1">0-517-69427-1</a>)</li> <li><i>When The Cat's Away</i> (1988, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-517-07564-4" title="Special:BookSources/0-517-07564-4">0-517-07564-4</a>)</li> <li><i>Frequent Flyer</i> (1989, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-688-08166-5" title="Special:BookSources/0-688-08166-5">0-688-08166-5</a>)</li> <li><i>Musical Chairs</i> (1991, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-688-09148-2" title="Special:BookSources/0-688-09148-2">0-688-09148-2</a>)</li> <li><i>Elvis, Jesus and Coca-Cola</i> (1993, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-671-86922-1" title="Special:BookSources/0-671-86922-1">0-671-86922-1</a>)</li> <li><i>Armadillos and Old Lace</i> (1994, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-671-86923-X" title="Special:BookSources/0-671-86923-X">0-671-86923-X</a>)</li> <li><i>God Bless John Wayne</i> (1995, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-684-81051-4" title="Special:BookSources/0-684-81051-4">0-684-81051-4</a>)</li> <li><i>The Love Song of J. Edgar Hoover</i> (1996, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-684-80377-1" title="Special:BookSources/0-684-80377-1">0-684-80377-1</a>)</li> <li><i>Roadkill</i> (1997, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-684-80378-X" title="Special:BookSources/0-684-80378-X">0-684-80378-X</a>)</li> <li><i>Blast From The Past</i> (1998, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-684-80379-8" title="Special:BookSources/0-684-80379-8">0-684-80379-8</a>)</li> <li><i>Spanking Watson</i> (1999, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-684-85061-3" title="Special:BookSources/0-684-85061-3">0-684-85061-3</a>)</li> <li><i>The Mile High Club</i> (2000, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-684-86486-X" title="Special:BookSources/0-684-86486-X">0-684-86486-X</a>)</li> <li><i>Steppin' On A Rainbow</i> (2001, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-684-86487-8" title="Special:BookSources/0-684-86487-8">0-684-86487-8</a>)</li> <li><i>Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch</i> (2002, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-684-86488-6" title="Special:BookSources/0-684-86488-6">0-684-86488-6</a>)</li> <li><i>Curse of the Missing Puppet Head</i> (2003, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-9702383-6-3" title="Special:BookSources/0-9702383-6-3">0-9702383-6-3</a>)</li> <li><i>The Prisoner of Vandam Street</i> (2004, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-7432-4602-0" title="Special:BookSources/0-7432-4602-0">0-7432-4602-0</a>)</li> <li><i>Ten Little New Yorkers</i> (2005, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-7432-4603-9" title="Special:BookSources/0-7432-4603-9">0-7432-4603-9</a>)</li></ul> </td> <td class="col-break col-break-2"> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Other_novels">Other novels</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kinky_Friedman&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Other novels"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>Kill Two Birds and Get Stoned</i> (2003, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-06-620979-X" title="Special:BookSources/0-06-620979-X">0-06-620979-X</a>)</li> <li><i>The Christmas Pig: A Fable</i> (2006, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-4165-3498-9" title="Special:BookSources/1-4165-3498-9">1-4165-3498-9</a>)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Non-fiction_&_humor"><span id="Non-fiction_.26_humor"></span>Non-fiction & humor</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kinky_Friedman&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Non-fiction & humor"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>Kinky Friedman's Guide to Texas Etiquette: Or How To Get To Heaven Or Hell Without Going Through Dallas-Fort Worth</i> (2002, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-06-093535-9" title="Special:BookSources/0-06-093535-9">0-06-093535-9</a>)</li> <li><i>Scuse Me While I Whip This Out: Reflections On Country Singers, Presidents, And Other Troublemakers</i> (2004, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-06-053975-5" title="Special:BookSources/0-06-053975-5">0-06-053975-5</a>)</li> <li><i>The Great Psychedelic Armadillo Picnic: A "Walk" In Austin</i> (2004, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-4000-5070-7" title="Special:BookSources/1-4000-5070-7">1-4000-5070-7</a>)</li> <li><i>Texas Hold 'Em: How I Was Born In A Manger, Died In The Saddle, And Came Back As A Horny Toad</i> (2005, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-312-33155-X" title="Special:BookSources/0-312-33155-X">0-312-33155-X</a>)</li> <li><i>Cowboy Logic : The Wit And Wisdom Of Kinky Friedman (And Some Of His Friends)</i> (2006, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-312-33157-3" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-312-33157-3">978-0-312-33157-3</a>)</li> <li><i>You Can Lead A Politician To Water, But You Can't Make Him Think: Ten Commandments For Texas Politics</i> (2007, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-4165-4760-0" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-4165-4760-0">978-1-4165-4760-0</a>)</li> <li><i>What Would Kinky Do? How to Unscrew a Screwed Up World</i> (2008, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-312-33159-7" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-312-33159-7">978-0-312-33159-7</a>)</li></ul> <p>  </p> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kinky_Friedman&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-lower-alpha"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-DoD-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-DoD_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-DoD_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-DoD_1-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Some sources reported that Friedman died early on June 27,<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-NYT_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYT-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> while others said he died late on June 26.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-auto_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-RS_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RS-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Others did not report a date of death.<sup id="cite_ref-death_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-death-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kinky_Friedman&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFPatoski" class="citation journal cs1">Patoski, Joe Nick. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://texashighways.com/culture/people/kinky-friedman-introduces-gold-star-kids-to-the-land-that-shaped-him/">"Kinky Friedman Introduces Gold Star Kids to the Land That Shaped Him"</a>. <i>Texas Highways</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">June 27,</span> 2024</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Texas+Highways&rft.atitle=Kinky+Friedman+Introduces+Gold+Star+Kids+to+the+Land+That+Shaped+Him&rft.aulast=Patoski&rft.aufirst=Joe+Nick&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Ftexashighways.com%2Fculture%2Fpeople%2Fkinky-friedman-introduces-gold-star-kids-to-the-land-that-shaped-him%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AKinky+Friedman" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFVertuno2024" class="citation news cs1">Vertuno, Jim (June 27, 2024). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://apnews.com/article/kinky-friedman-died-texas-e082882e05e455259f9dbd376e97a222">"Singer, songwriter, provocateur and politician Kinky Friedman dead at 79"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Associated_Press" title="Associated Press">Associated Press</a></i>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240628010837/https://apnews.com/article/kinky-friedman-died-texas-e082882e05e455259f9dbd376e97a222">Archived</a> from the original on June 28, 2024<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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(November 1, 2015). <span class="id-lock-subscription" title="Paid subscription required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/.premium-one-and-only-kinky-friedman-is-born-1.5415611">"This Day in Jewish History, 1944 | Kinky Friedman, Whose Life Reads Like a Book With a Most Unlikely Plot, Is Born"</a></span>. <i><a href="/wiki/Haaretz" title="Haaretz">Haaretz</a></i>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190131145156/https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/.premium-one-and-only-kinky-friedman-is-born-1.5415611">Archived</a> from the original on January 31, 2019<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">January 31,</span> 2019</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Haaretz&rft.atitle=This+Day+in+Jewish+History%2C+1944+%7C+Kinky+Friedman%2C+Whose+Life+Reads+Like+a+Book+With+a+Most+Unlikely+Plot%2C+Is+Born&rft.date=2015-11-01&rft.aulast=Green&rft.aufirst=David+B.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.haaretz.com%2Fjewish%2F.premium-one-and-only-kinky-friedman-is-born-1.5415611&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AKinky+Friedman" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-:3-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-:3_17-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSullivan2017" class="citation book cs1">Sullivan, Mary Lou (2017). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=nT0_DwAAQBAJ"><i>Everything's Bigger in Texas: The Life and Times of Kinky Friedman</i></a>. Montclair, NJ: Backbeat Books. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1540004994" title="Special:BookSources/978-1540004994"><bdi>978-1540004994</bdi></a> – via Google Books.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Everything%27s+Bigger+in+Texas%3A+The+Life+and+Times+of+Kinky+Friedman&rft.place=Montclair%2C+NJ&rft.pub=Backbeat+Books&rft.date=2017&rft.isbn=978-1540004994&rft.aulast=Sullivan&rft.aufirst=Mary+Lou&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DnT0_DwAAQBAJ&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AKinky+Friedman" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-18">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/050822fa_fact">Lone Star: Kinky Friedman on the campaign trail</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130602061843/http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/050822fa_fact">Archived</a> June 2, 2013, at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a> by Dan Halpern, <a href="/wiki/The_New_Yorker" title="The New Yorker">The New Yorker</a>, August 22, 2005.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-19">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFDansby2017" class="citation news cs1">Dansby, Andrew (December 3, 2017). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.houstonchronicle.com/entertainment/music/article/The-strange-life-of-Kinky-Friedman-12401226.php">"The strange life of Kinky Friedman"</a>. <i>Houston Chronicle</i>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190131093529/https://www.houstonchronicle.com/entertainment/music/article/The-strange-life-of-Kinky-Friedman-12401226.php">Archived</a> from the original on January 31, 2019<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">January 31,</span> 2019</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Houston+Chronicle&rft.atitle=The+strange+life+of+Kinky+Friedman&rft.date=2017-12-03&rft.aulast=Dansby&rft.aufirst=Andrew&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.houstonchronicle.com%2Fentertainment%2Fmusic%2Farticle%2FThe-strange-life-of-Kinky-Friedman-12401226.php&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AKinky+Friedman" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-20">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.kinkajourecords.com/kinkybio.htm">Kinky Friedman Biography</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060519060937/http://www.kinkajourecords.com/kinkybio.htm">Archived</a> May 19, 2006, at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>, Kinkajou Records.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-21">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20061210024020/http://www.peacecorps.gov/index.cfm?shell=learn.whatispc.notable.artsandlit">"Notable Former Volunteers / Arts and Literature"</a>. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">January 31,</span> 2019</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Los+Angeles+Times&rft.atitle=The+Tale+of+a+Kinky+Cowboy+Who+Made+Good&rft.date=1989-10-15&rft.issn=0458-3035&rft.aulast=Teitelbaum&rft.aufirst=Sheldon&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Farchives%2Fla-xpm-1989-10-15-vw-489-story.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AKinky+Friedman" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-23"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-23">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFDakass2005" class="citation news cs1">Dakass, Brian (August 19, 2005). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kinky-friedman-turns-to-politics/">"Kinky Friedman Turns To Politics"</a>. CBS News. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121015022901/http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/08/19/sunday/main788935_page2.shtml">Archived</a> from the original on October 15, 2012<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">January 31,</span> 2019</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=Kinky+Friedman+Turns+To+Politics&rft.date=2005-08-19&rft.aulast=Dakass&rft.aufirst=Brian&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cbsnews.com%2Fnews%2Fkinky-friedman-turns-to-politics%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AKinky+Friedman" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-24"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-24">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Tucker, Stephen R. (1998). "Kinky Friedman". In <i>The Encyclopedia of Country Music</i>. Paul Kingsbury, Editor. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 184.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-25"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-25">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Kunz-Goldman, Mary (June 26, 2012). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.buffalonews.com/entertainment/gusto/music/concert-previews/article920598.ece">Kinky Friedman comes to town: Texas troubadour has enjoyed a long career by thumbing his nose at political correctness</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120629205210/http://www.buffalonews.com/entertainment/gusto/music/concert-previews/article920598.ece">Archived</a> June 29, 2012, at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>. <i>The Buffalo News</i>. Retrieved June 26, 2012.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-26"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-26">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://worldradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Business/Music/Archive-Cash-Box-IDX/70s/1975/CB-1975-03-08-OCR-Page-0028.pdf">"For the Record," <i>Cashbox</i> (magazine), March 8, 1975.</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20211225101512/https://worldradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Business/Music/Archive-Cash-Box-IDX/70s/1975/CB-1975-03-08-OCR-Page-0028.pdf">Archived</a> December 25, 2021, at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a> Retrieved December 25, 2021</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-27"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-27">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=nT0_DwAAQBAJ&dq=kinky+friedman+buffy+sainte+marie+san+francisco&pg=PT112">Sullivan, Mary Lou. <i>Everything's Bigger in Texas: The Life & Times of Kinky Friedman</i>. Milwaukee, WI: Backbeat Books, 2017.</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230512151531/https://books.google.com/books?id=nT0_DwAAQBAJ&dq=kinky+friedman+buffy+sainte+marie+san+francisco&pg=PT112">Archived</a> May 12, 2023, at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a> Retrieved December 25, 2021</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-28"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-28">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=xl3yDwAAQBAJ&dq=kinky+friedman+buffy+sainte+marie+san+francisco&pg=PA218">Greenspoon, Leonard J. <i>Jews and Humor</i>. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 2011.</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230423101705/https://books.google.com/books?id=xl3yDwAAQBAJ&dq=kinky+friedman+buffy+sainte+marie+san+francisco&pg=PA218">Archived</a> April 23, 2023, at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a> Retrieved December 25, 2021</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-29"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-29">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFLanger2004" class="citation web cs1">Langer, Andy (September 17, 2004). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20041027191515/http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/2004-09-17/music_string_all.html">"Looking Out My Back Door: Thirteen from 30 years of 'Austin City Limits'<span class="cs1-kern-right"></span>"</a>. <i>The Austin Chronicle</i>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/2004-09-17/music_string_all.html">the original</a> on October 27, 2004<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">January 31,</span> 2019</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=The+Austin+Chronicle&rft.atitle=Looking+Out+My+Back+Door%3A+Thirteen+from+30+years+of+%27Austin+City+Limits%27&rft.date=2004-09-17&rft.aulast=Langer&rft.aufirst=Andy&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.austinchronicle.com%2Fissues%2Fdispatch%2F2004-09-17%2Fmusic_string_all.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AKinky+Friedman" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-30"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-30">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/saturday-night-live-s02e05">Saturday Night Live S02E05: Steve Martin – Internet Archive.</a> Retrieved December 25, 2021</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-31"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-31">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/steve-martin-and-kinky-friedman/n26179">"S2 E5 / 10/22/76"</a>. <i>NBC</i>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230106045222/https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/steve-martin-and-kinky-friedman/n26179">Archived</a> from the original on January 6, 2023<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">January 6,</span> 2023</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=NBC&rft.atitle=S2+E5+%2F+10%2F22%2F76&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nbc.com%2Fsaturday-night-live%2Fvideo%2Fsteve-martin-and-kinky-friedman%2Fn26179&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AKinky+Friedman" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-32"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-32">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">For a complication of Friedman's assertion, see Stacy Harris, "Kosher Country: Success and Survival on Nashville's Music Row," <i>Southern Jewish History</i> 2 (1999): 111–28. See also Mara Cohen, "Kinky Friedman and His Influence on Jewish American Music", <i>International Journal of the Study of Music and Musical Performance</i> (2019): 33–53; online at <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://www.academia.edu/40797797/Kinky_Friedman_and_His_Influence_on_Jewish_American_Music">https://www.academia.edu/40797797/Kinky_Friedman_and_His_Influence_on_Jewish_American_Music</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200302041225/https://www.academia.edu/40797797/Kinky_Friedman_and_His_Influence_on_Jewish_American_Music">Archived</a> March 2, 2020, at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-33"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-33">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFFarmer2007" class="citation web cs1">Farmer, Mary Jane (2007). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070930023615/http://peacecorpsonline.org/messages/messages/467/2083838.html">"Kinky invites country greats to sing his songs on "Why The Hell Not..."<span class="cs1-kern-right"></span>"</a>. <i>peacecorpsonline.org</i>. Herald Democrat. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://peacecorpsonline.org/messages/messages/467/2083838.html">the original</a> on September 30, 2007<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">January 31,</span> 2019</span>. <q>In 1986 he ran for justice of the peace in Kerrville, near Echo Hill, and lost badly. 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