NP: Kinky Friedman

[Thomas Eckhardt]

Saw the Kinkster yesterday in Berlin (without his Texas Jewboys). He 
played my favourite, "Sold American" and his most famous, "They Ain't 
Making Jews Like Jesus Anymore", but not "Ride 'Em Jewboy" -- probably 
the only country song about the Holocaust, and a favourite of Nelson 
Mandela's. The new record has some fine songs as well. Friedman also 
played "Pretty Boy Floyd", Peter La Farge's "Ballad of Ira Hayes" and 
Warren Zevon's "My Shit's Fucked Up". A great humanist, a great songwriter.
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