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Kinky Friedman has always retained his Kinkster persona and concealed Richard Friedman from the general public eye. Using one-liners, laughter, and occasional rudeness, he uses the advice of his friend Bob Dylan to keep an aura of secret. Publisher Mary Lou Sullivan spent many contentious days and nights at Kinky's Tx Hill Country ranch before he respected her enough to open up and speak candidly. Best known as an irreverent cigar-chomping Jewish country-and-western vocalist, turned author, switched politician, Kinky has dined on monkey brains in the jungles of Borneo, supped with presidents, and vacationed with Bob Dylan in the little fishing community of Yelapa, Mexico. A satirist who adores moving the envelope, he's been attacked onstage, received bomb threats, and put on really the only show in Austin City Restrictions' history considered too unpleasant to air. In the 1970s music arena in L.A. with Tom Waits and the Strap, to political programs advocating legalized pot, 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 many years of interviews of the larger-than-life Texan who is still writing literature and songs, documenting albums, and doing for enthusiastic people throughout the world.
