Kinky Friedman—the singer-songwriter-author-satirist-animal rescuer and veteran cigar-chomping wag—describes how his longtime friend and sometimes advisor Willie Nelson, upon hearing in a 3am phone call that Friedman was watching “Matlock,” decided his friend was in the throes of depression, and admonished Kinky to start writing songs. Read more…
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Kinky Friedman–Singer-songwriter
Kinky Friedman–the singer-songwriter who, fronting his band The Texas Jewboys, toured in the ’70s with Bob Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Revue…more recently has worked as a prolific mystery novelist…is now running for Governor of Texas..and has long been an animal advocate– Read more…
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