The title track to Kinky’s signature debut album was a straightforward portrait of a faded country star eventually recorded by Lyle Lovett and Glen Campbell.
at 79, he left behind a catalog of songs that confounds, provokes, angers, and just plain old entertains. His Jewish heritage was a favorite songwriting topic, and the wily Texan never met a sacred steer he wouldn’t kill: He tweaked feminists and the men who had a problem with women’s liberation in equal measure — in the same song. These are the must-hear tracks for your Kinky playlist.
dozens of stories he loved to tell, none more than the legend of how Nelson Mandela listened to a cassette of Kinky Friedman’s Holocaust ballad each night for three years while in prison on Robben Island. “Although it sounds like something from a Kurt Vonnegut novel,” Friedman once said of the story, “we have now verified it.” Willie Nelson recorded the ballad, and Dylan admired the song Friedman said took “several continents and a decade to write” so much so that he performed it.
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