Live From Austin Texas (CD)

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.

• Category:  Music  »  Country  »  Singer/Songwriter
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• Release Date: July 10, 2007
• Label: New West Records
• UPC: 607396612420
• WAPI (Tower ID): 107315006
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• Tower.com Sales Rank: #54252 in Music (See Top 100 Music Bestsellers)
• #2799 in Country (See Top 100 Country Bestsellers)
• #69 in Singer/Songwriter (See Top 100 Singer/Songwriter Bestsellers)

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Recording information: 1975.

This long overdue DVD release finally sees the light of day with New West's incredible LIVE FROM AUSTIN TEXAS series, which compiles classic episodes from the Austin City Limits archives. This volume achieves infamy as the show's only broadcast deemed too hot for TV. With Kinky Friedman and His Texas Jewboys as its main attraction, songs like "They Ain't Making Jews Like Jesus Anymore," "Arsehole from El Paso," and "Homo Erectus," the censors would have had too difficult a time keeping up with his propensity for ethnically tinged provocation. With his controversial humor and gonzo intellect, it's easy to forget that Friedman and His Texas Jewboys were a rollicking outlaw country outfit with an energy that bordered on punkish at times. The highlight, as usual with Friedman, is the set's closer "Ride 'Em Jewboy," which may be the best pop song ever written about the Holocaust.

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