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Jewish Troubadour Kinky Friedman Hits Mucky Duck
December 5, 2012
Kinky Friedman—a self-proclaimed author, columnist, musician, beautician, tequila mogul and animal rescuer—is thinking about making his second bid for governor of Texas. But until then, music will remain his top priority...along with cigars.
December means the second phase of Friedman’s Bi-Polar Tour. The cacophony of songs, stories, jokes, and politics—a follow-up to his Springtime For Kinky Tour—rolls into the Mucky Duck on Wednesday, Dec. 12. Friedman’s Man in Black Tequila may be on hand for tastings and three-bottle gifts will be auctioned off boxes (profits go to Friedman’s favorite charity: the Utopia Animal Rescue Ranch).
The Texas singer-songwriter has been known as a prominent, rebel-rousing folk musician/satirist/political activist since the early-mid ‘70s when he spent two years touring with fellow landsman Bob Dylan—it was around that time Friedman also became the proud winner of the National Organization for Women’s “Male Chauvinist Pig Award” after performing the song below in Buffalo.
Friedman, the author of 35 books, almost became the co-writer of Willie Nelson’s recently-released memoir, Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die. “It began as a co-writing project with Willie,” Friedman told the San Francisco Chronicle. “But Nelson’s editor wanted one star, and Willie didn’t want an editor at all.”
Friedman's new album Live From Woodstock was recorded during the first American leg of his Bi-Polar Tour so there may be a Live From Monterey album in the works. One thing that’s definitely in the works: A Russian film based on Friedman’s novel Kill Two Birds and Get Stoned. The movie is set to hit theaters—probably a very very limited release—sometime in 2013
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