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Kinky Friedman: Sold American (CD)

ZyX Music) 11 tracks

Why should you bother with an album today that was largely ignored 35 years ago? Quite simply: “Sold American” has matured like fine wine and gained in stature over time.

In the world of Kinky Friedman, even the most serious situations deserve a touch of light-heartedness, and this is precisely where the Kinkster's charm lies. As he sings in “Jewboy”, the most serious track on the album: “Anything worth crying about can be smiled about.”

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Interpret: Kinky Friedman
Album titlle: Sold American (CD)
Label VANGUARD
Genre Rock
Artikelart CD
EAN: 0090204730018
weight in Kg 0.107

Friedman, Kinky - Sold American (CD) CD 1
01	We Reserve The Right To Refuse Service To You	Kinky Friedman
02	Highway Cafe	Kinky Friedman
03	Sold American	Kinky Friedman
04	Flyin' Down The Freeway	Kinky Friedman
05	Ride 'Em Jewboy	Kinky Friedman
06	Get Your Biscuits In The Oven And Your Buns I	Kinky Friedman
07	High On Jesus	Kinky Friedman
08	The Ballad Of Charles Whitman	Kinky Friedman
09	Top Ten Commandents	Kinky Friedman
10	Western Union Wire	Kinky Friedman
11	Silver Eagle Express	Kinky Friedman

Kinky Friedman Kinky Friedman (1944–2024), born Richard F. Friedman in Chicago and... more

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"Kinky Friedman"

Kinky Friedman

Kinky Friedman (1944–2024), born Richard F. Friedman in Chicago and raised in Austin, Texas, was one of the most idiosyncratic singer-songwriters of American country music. He owed his nickname to his frizzy hair. As one of very few Jewish artists in country, he made Jewishness the central theme of his work – satirical, provocative and often deeper than it first appeared.

His father Tom was an educational psychologist, his mother Minnie a speech therapist; Kinky's stage career began at the skit nights of the family's Echo Hill Ranch summer camp. After early records as King Arthur & the Carrots, studies at the University of Texas and two years in the Peace Corps in Borneo, he founded the band the Texas Jewboys around 1970, whose shows were notorious for their deliberately provocative wit.

Some called him the Frank Zappa of country music, others compared him to Lenny Bruce. No other country singer wrote about the Holocaust or tackled sensitive subjects as unabashedly as he did here. With songs like 'Ride 'Em Jewboy' and 'Sold American', and as a participant in Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue, he gained cult status early on. Friedman later made a name for himself as a crime novelist and as a candidate in the 2006 Texas gubernatorial election. The album 'They Ain't Making Jews Like Jesus Anymore' gathers his unmistakable repertoire, poised between satire, heart and bite.

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