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The Best Of Kinky Friedman (CD)

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Kinky Friedman Artist Snapshot:

Raised Jewish in Texas, Friedman spent his career celebrating, lampooning, and generally obsessing over his unlikely status as a cowboy hat-wearin', country singin' jew. He started in the surf rock band King Arthur and the Carrots, but by the '70s had embraced country music and found its outlaw element--the Glaser Brothers, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings--embracing him back. Hitching his gonzo songwriting to a raucous backing band, the Texas Jewboys, Friedman made several critically acclaimed progressive country albums and even joined Bob Dylan in the Rolling Thunder Revue. Ethnic comedy aside, Friedman could also write extraordinarily effecting ballads such as "Sold American" about an Opry has-been and "Ride 'Em Jewboy," a heartbreaking cowboy song about the Holocaust. Friedman eventually switched careers and found success as a crime novelist, and even made a thwarted third party run at the Texas governship in 2006.

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DISC 1 for The Best Of Kinky Friedman (CD) Album By Kinky Friedman (Artist)
1   Sold American
2   Before All Hell Breaks Loose
3   Ballad Of Charles Whitman, The
4   Waitret, Please, Waitret
5   Get Your Biscuits In The Oven & Your Buns In The Bed
6   Asshole From El Paso
7   People Who Read People Magazine
8   Something's Wrong With The Beaver
9   We Reserve The Right To Refuse Service To You
10   Homo Erectus
11   Ride' Em Jewboy
12   Take-It-Easy Trailer Park, The
13   Rock And Roll Across The USA
14   Ol' Ben Lucas
15   They Ain't Makin' Jews Like Jesus Anymore
 

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Dirty Linen (p.45) - "A great idea, especially since some of his best albums are out of print....It's good to hear 'Something's Wrong With the Beaver' and the slightly more serious 'Sold American'."
No Depression (p.90) - "Like Randy Newman, Kinky crafts songs with humor, satire and parody."

Title Note

Timed to coincide with Richard "Kinky" Friedman's completely serious 2006 independent run for Texas governor, THE BEST OF KINKY FRIEDMAN is a 15-track anthology of the singer and novelist's sardonic outlaw country tunes. Often misunderstood as an anti-PC caricature, Friedman is a social satirist whose songs feature deceptively serious commentary on racism ("We Reserve the Right to Refuse Service To You"), sexism ("Get Your Biscuits in the Oven and Your Buns in the Bed"), and anti-Semitism ("They Ain't Makin' Jews Like Jesus Anymore"). The set also includes the heartbreaking "Sold American," one of the greatest country ballads of the 1970s.

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