A kick in the teeth this AM, the loss of satirist/musician Kinky Friedman.
Maybe the greatest train song ever:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OA_YslSMwHU
RIP, and thanks for the music.
RIP Kinky Friedman
Re: RIP Kinky Friedman
AN INTERESTING PERSONALITY .
Kinky Friedman, Texas songwriter, satirist and folk hero, dies at 79
He showcased his outlandish humor in songs like “They Ain’t Makin’ Jews Like Jesus Anymore.” In 2006, he ran for Texas governor as an independent, coming in fourth.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituari ... dman-dead/
After graduating from the University of Texas at Austin, where he studied psychology and marched against segregated lunch counters in his spare time, Mr. Friedman went to Borneo in 1966, serving for two years with the Peace Corps. He played guitar, wrote country songs and returned home to form Kinky Friedman and the Texas Jewboys, a riff on the western swing group Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys.
Performing at small-town bars as well as Nashville’s Grand Ole Opry, Mr. Friedman released more than a dozen albums, beginning with “Sold American” (1973). The record featured many of his best-known songs, including “Ride ’Em Jewboy,” a country tribute to the 6 million Jews killed in the Holocaust, and “Get Your Biscuits in the Oven and Your Buns in the Bed,” a controversial country ditty in which he called on women “to occupy the kitchen, liberate the sink.”
“Sometimes, Friedman’s songs lampooned small-minded bigotry; sometimes, those songs embodied that bigotry so fully that the line between parody and seriousness became meaningless; and sometimes, those songs used a veneer of humorous irony and satire to traffic in edgy intolerance,” Rolling Stone journalist Jonathan Bernstein wrote in 2018.
Mr. Friedman often recalled a 1973 concert in Buffalo, where he said he and the band were attacked onstage by “a group of cranked-up lesbians” that reacted angrily to “Get Your Biscuits.” “Later that year, I received the National Organization for Women’s male chauvinist pig award,” he told the Buffalo News. “It’s an award I’m still proud of.”
Kinky Friedman, Texas songwriter, satirist and folk hero, dies at 79
He showcased his outlandish humor in songs like “They Ain’t Makin’ Jews Like Jesus Anymore.” In 2006, he ran for Texas governor as an independent, coming in fourth.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituari ... dman-dead/
After graduating from the University of Texas at Austin, where he studied psychology and marched against segregated lunch counters in his spare time, Mr. Friedman went to Borneo in 1966, serving for two years with the Peace Corps. He played guitar, wrote country songs and returned home to form Kinky Friedman and the Texas Jewboys, a riff on the western swing group Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys.
Performing at small-town bars as well as Nashville’s Grand Ole Opry, Mr. Friedman released more than a dozen albums, beginning with “Sold American” (1973). The record featured many of his best-known songs, including “Ride ’Em Jewboy,” a country tribute to the 6 million Jews killed in the Holocaust, and “Get Your Biscuits in the Oven and Your Buns in the Bed,” a controversial country ditty in which he called on women “to occupy the kitchen, liberate the sink.”
“Sometimes, Friedman’s songs lampooned small-minded bigotry; sometimes, those songs embodied that bigotry so fully that the line between parody and seriousness became meaningless; and sometimes, those songs used a veneer of humorous irony and satire to traffic in edgy intolerance,” Rolling Stone journalist Jonathan Bernstein wrote in 2018.
Mr. Friedman often recalled a 1973 concert in Buffalo, where he said he and the band were attacked onstage by “a group of cranked-up lesbians” that reacted angrily to “Get Your Biscuits.” “Later that year, I received the National Organization for Women’s male chauvinist pig award,” he told the Buffalo News. “It’s an award I’m still proud of.”
Re: RIP Kinky Friedman
His work would likely be another example of material one couldn't produce today, similar to movies like Blazing Saddles. Irony and satire is lost on much of the general population, usually resulting in folks coming away feeling offended.
Re: RIP Kinky Friedman
While I have never heard of him I did find reading about to be interesting and if he had put on a show in Branson Mo I would have enjoyed his show I have seen both Yakov Smirnoff & Ray Stevens at their shows and both can offend people with their comedy. Branson is not all country shows.
It is hard to imagine how people can be offended today by what we used to laugh at. Like blazing saddles or "all in the family' You are right they couldn't do these shows today with the political correct, woke, cancel culture generation.
I don't even think Seinfeld could do his show again. Every where he goes right now he is being shouted at by activist because he is Jewish.
It is hard to imagine how people can be offended today by what we used to laugh at. Like blazing saddles or "all in the family' You are right they couldn't do these shows today with the political correct, woke, cancel culture generation.
I don't even think Seinfeld could do his show again. Every where he goes right now he is being shouted at by activist because he is Jewish.
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