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Everything's Bigger in Texas: The Life and Times of Kinky Friedman
Written by Mary Lou Sullivan
Narrated by David Chandler
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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Kinky Friedman has always maintained his Kinkster persona and hidden Richard Friedman from the public eye. Using one-liners, humor, and occasional rudeness, he follows the advice of his friend Bob Dylan to keep an aura of mystery. Author Mary Lou Sullivan spent many contentious days and nights at Kinky's Texas Hill Country ranch before he trusted her enough to open up and speak candidly. Best known as an irreverent cigar-chomping Jewish country-and-western singer, turned author, turned politician, Kinky has dined on monkey brains in the jungles of Borneo, supped with presidents, and vacationed with Bob Dylan in the tiny fishing village of Yelapa, Mexico. A satirist who loves pushing the envelope, he's been attacked onstage, received bomb threats, and put on the only show in Austin City Limits' history deemed too offensive to air. From the 1970s music scene in L.A. with Tom Waits and the Band, to political platforms advocating legalized marijuana, to friendships with John Belushi, Joseph Heller, Don Imus, Willie Nelson, Dwight Yoakam, and Billy Bob Thornton, this is the candid account based on dozens and years of interviews of the larger-than-life Texan who is still writing books and songs, recording albums, and performing for enthusiastic audiences throughout the world.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Being a life-and-times of Texan country music provocateur Kinky Friedman. This account is very much based in oral history; specifically Kinky-driven, it also contains liberal snippets from interviews with others. The first half of the book covers Friedman's youth and musical career; single chapters follow devoted to his comedy mystery novels, his sparse musical output over the past forty years, his animal welfare activities, entrepreneurship, and political campaigns, most notably for governor of Texas. Friedman is, unsurprisingly, an amusing, entertaining, and insightful narrator of his life, and the author picks up the torch of defending him from the largely spurious charges of political incorrectness which have dogged him since his relentless deployal of racial and ethnic stereotypes and expletives to satirize bigotry.; thus the book is a rollicking read with many a serious point to be made. Even as a fan, I could have done with a shorter book, as one longish chapter is devoted to Friedman's jetset celebrity years in the late seventies and early eighties wherein the author relentlessly namedrops every eminento who appreciated Friedman's music and loved him as a drug buddy. Yes, it's important to realize the wide influence of Friedman's creativity, but as far as I'm concerned, she could have mentioned these people twice or thrice and then moved the story along, and, especially, not felt compelled to offer a mini-biography of dozens of celebrities such as Bob Dylan and Jno. Belushi whom most people know well enough for purposes of understanding a biography of somebody else.