Kinky Friedman
USA
Born: 31 October 1944
Years Active: 70, 80, 90, 2000
Styles: Country-Rock, Folk/Country Rock, Folk/Country Rock, Country Comedy, Traditional Country, Outlaw Country, Honky Tonk, Progressive Country
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Who else could have written a country song about the Holocaust ("Ride 'Em Jewboy"), or about a human being kept in a cage as part of a circus "Wild Man From Borneo"? Outrageous and irreverent but nearly always thought-provoking, Kinky Friedman wrote and performed satirical country songs during the 1970s and has been hailed as the Frank Zappa of country music. The son of a University of Texas professor who raised his children on the family ranch, Rio Duckworth, he was born Richard F. Friedman. He studied psychology at Texas and founded his first...
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