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Kinky Country
Kinky Friedman's songwriting talent is made
clear with a new tribute album.
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RICK HELLMAN
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rather, the throats of these pros.
Kinky's original versions were good,
and he reprises a handful of his songs
here with his reunited Texas Jewboys
band. But Willie Nelson's burnished
tenor brings a new poignancy to
Friedman's "Ride 'em, Jewboy," which,
t first, I simply found the
notion of a Jewish country
musician a hoot. That was
true when, as a 15-year-old
in 1973, I heard Kinky Friedman's
Sold American album. And it
remains so today, as I listen to the
new Kinky tribute album, Pearls in
the Snow (Kinkajou Records).
But this new collection does
more than just remind me of that.
It allows one to see, courtesy of
the passage of time, just how great
a songwriter Richard "Kinky"
Friedman really was in his prime.
In the 1970s, Kinky was a reve-
lation. Yes, with enough love, pas-
sion and dedication, a Jewish man
could write, play and sing country
music on par with the best of 'em!
What Hank Greenberg did for
baseball-loving Jewish boys, Kinky
did for country music lovers
among us.
Friedman's droll sense of humor
got him the attention that led to a
briefly successful career as post-
modern country musician, alter-
Richard "Kinky" Friedman: Country singer
natively mocking and honoring
turned mystery novelist.
the traditions of the form. But the
laughs always overshadowed the
despite its
warmth, the craft and the under-
seemingly
standing of Jewish history and cul-
humorous title,
ture that underlies much of Kinky's
is really an
best songwriting.
elegy for vic-
Years removed from the hype,
tims of the
Pearls in the Snow makes this abun-
Holocaust (see
dandy clear.
lyrics in box).
Producer Kacey Jones recruited
And Lyle
some of the finest vocal talents in
Lovett's
version
country music today — Willie
of
"Sold
American"
shows
that
Nelson, Lyle Lovett, Dwight Yoakam
Friedman is just as believable writing
and more — to reinterpret and re-
about the price capitalism exacts
record Kinky's best songs. And they
from a "faded, jaded, falling cowboy
do, indeed, shine like pearls. They are
star. "
little gems of heartbreak, wistfulness
Of course, humor is an integral
and, yes, humor. The musical sound is
part
of the Kinkster's appeal, and this
pure Hank Williams, but the sly tone
is
represented
by new versions of
of the lyrics has more in common
"They
Ain't
Making
Jews Like Jesus
with someone like Randy Newman or
Anymore
and
his
most
infamous
John Prine.
tune, "Get Your Biscuits in the Oven
And the songs have never sounded
and Your Buns in the Bed," a randy
better than they do in the hands, or,
and hilarious anti-feminist screed
delivered by an Archie Bunker-type
Rick Hellman is managing editor of
narrator.
the Kansas City Jewish Chronicle.