Amoeba Music

“I know there’s a bit of Judy Garland in me, but I was always ambivalent about my career as a country musician,” says Kinky Friedman, who outraged Nashville, and the rest of America, when he hit the stage in 1972 as the leader of Kinky Friedman and The Texas Jewboys.  “I suppose I’m ambivalent about being a performer too, and since I can use ambivalent correctly in a sentence, it’s probably a good indication that I shouldn’t have been in country music in the first place.”

Friedman’s disclaimer notwithstanding, The Kinkster (as he is wont to call himself) has penned a number of tunes that are potential country standards including “Ride ‘em Jewboy,”... Read More

City Of Origin:

Rio Duckworth/Palestine, Texas, United States

Genre:

Country

Birthdate:

10/31/1944