Kinky Friedman

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Kinky's self-titled second album includes many of his best creations, and it works because, no matter how far the lyrics stray from traditional country terrain, the songs are always delivered with sincerity, conviction, and high-quality musicianship. Arrangements range from steel-drenched honky-tonk to peppy swing to orchestral ballads, while lyrical themes range from the pseudo-gospel to the adolescent, the satirical to the nonsensical, the mundane to the mystical. Another highlight is Friedman's hysterical liner notes, which discuss the travails of a "Texas Jewboy" dealing with record execs and coming to grips with his station in country-music society. Originally released in 1974, this record must have done something right, for it precipitated appearances on both the Grand Ole Opry and Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue. --Marc Greilsamer

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Average customer rating: Majewstic!! Interesting, Funny, and Worth It Doesn't get any Kinkier than this!

Last Of The Jewish Cowboys: The Best Of Kinky Friedman Kinky Friedman Manufacturer: Shout Factory ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Country | Styles | Music Outlaw & Progressive Country | Country | Styles | Music General | Folk | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Country Comedy | Comedy | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Country Rock | Rock | Styles | Music Similar Items: Why The Hell Not...The Songs Of Kinky Friedman They Ain't Making Jews Like Jesus Anymore The Christmas Pig: A Fable Texas Hold 'em: How I Was Born in a Manger, Died in the Saddle, And Came Back As a Horny Toad Kinky Friedman's Guide to Texas Etiquette: Or How to Get to Heaven or Hell Without Going Through Dallas-Fort Worth ASIN: B000H7JD3G Release Date: 2006-09-05

Tracks:

1. Sold American
2. Before All Hell Breaks Loose
3. The Ballad Of Charles Whitman
4. Waitret, Please Waitret
5. Get Your Bescuit In The Oven & Your Buns In The Bed
6. Asshole From El Paso
7. People Who Read People Magazine
8. Something's Wrong With The Beaver
9. We Reserve The Right To Refuse Service To You
10. Homo Erectus
11. Ride 'Em Jewboy
12. The Take-It Easy Trailer Park
13. Rock And Roll Across The USA
14. Ol' Ben Lucas
15. They Ain't Makin' Jews Like Jesus Anymore

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Often called the Frank Zappa of country music, Kinky Friedman--like Jimmy Buffett--knows how to poke fun at Nashville and pay homage to it at the same time. This first ever best-of collection oddly omits his "Wild Man from Borneo" and "Rapid City, South Dakota," but still captures the most outrageous of his social commentary (racism, classism, anti-Semitism), as well as his more serious songs ("Sold American," "Ride 'Em, Jewboy") about outcasts sad and solitary. Nothing is too gross (the mucus-lined ode to booger-picking, "Ol' Ben Lucas") or off-limits (the invitation to oral sex--"eatin' ain't cheatin'!"--in "Waitret, Please Waitret"). But no matter if one is offended by such references--or those to bestiality and "wetbacks" in "Asshole from El Paso," the hilarious parody of "Okie from Muskogee"--Friedman's importance in the pantheon cannot be denied. As his horrifying, if jaunty, treatment of the University of Texas sniper ("The Ballad of Charles Whitman") proves, he's a Lone Star throw-back to Lenny Bruce--a serious sociopolitical comic who turns a clear mirror on America, warts and all. --Alanna Nash

Album Description

With his signature cigar always in hand, Kinky Friedman uses country music as a platform to inform, amuse and outrage his audience. Starting in the early Â'70s, Kinky and his band, The Texas Jewboys, broke out of the stifling, often prejudiced, Nashville mold. Last Of The Jewish Cowboys: The Best Of Kinky Friedman, a mixture of live and studio recordings, includes many of his controversial hits, such as Â"Asshole From El Paso,Â" Â"Sold AmericanÂ" and Â"They AinÂ't MakinÂ' Jews Like Jesus Anymore.Â"

Never one for censoring himself, Kinky raised eyebrows with Â"Get Your Biscuits In The Oven And Your Buns In The Bed,Â" Â"Before All Hell Breaks Loose,Â" (off the pop album charting release Kinky Friedman) Â"Waitret, Please, WaitretÂ" (to be said with a lisp) and Â"The Take-It-Easy Trailer Park.

Customer Reviews:

Majewstic!!.......2007-01-10

A great collection from a multitalented singer, composer, writer and politician. Kinky for President!!!

Interesting, Funny, and Worth It.......2006-12-04

Back in the 1970's I used to go see Kinky Friedman and his Texas Jewboys at the Lone Star Café in New York City. He was a pretty entertaining performer. Let's face it, Kinky Friedman can't really sing for beans, but he is one hell of an interesting, funny, and politically interesting songwriter (he was also recently seriously in the race for the governorship of Texas) and there is something appealing about his voice.

Kinky's songs are much like the film Borat (come to think of it Kinky looks a little like Sascha Baron Cohen): you're not always quite sure what he intends, and the lyrics can be pretty offensive, but, they are also funny as hell. Examples: "Waitret [waitress] please waitret come sit on my fate." Or The Ballad of Charles Whitman, a comedy song about Charles Joseph Whitman, the Texas Tower Sniper who in 1966 killed 15 people and wounded 31 "all the while he smiled so sweetly then he blew them out completely...he was settin' up there with his 36 magnum, laughing wildly as he bagged `em." Then again, there is also Sold American, which is about...well, I'm not quite sure what it's about, but it is actually a lovely song.

If you don't know Kinky and his work, then this is a great place to start, and if you do, then this fairly complete collection will bring back a lot of (hopefully good) memories from the 70s.

Doesn't get any Kinkier than this!.......2006-09-13

Kinky Friedman is a Lone Star treasure. Heck, make that a national treasure. For decades he's written and recorded alternately touching and hilarious country songs that marry traditional country musical values with a uniquely skewed lyrical vision. Lots of country singers claim to be rugged individualists, but Kinky is one singer-songwriter who truly stands apart from the pack.

If you're a long-term fan--and your're in good company, with fans like Willie Nelson, Dwight Yoakam, and Lyle Lovett having covered his songs--you'll find that this collection will bring back a lot of great memories--and laughs.

If you're new to Kinky, this CD is the best entree to his very special world.

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Live from Austin, TX Kinky Friedman Manufacturer: New West Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Country | Styles | Music Outlaw & Progressive Country | Country | Styles | Music General | Traditional Country | Country | Styles | Music General | Folk | Styles | Music General | Live Albums | Folk | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Country Comedy | Comedy | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Country Rock | Rock | Styles | Music Similar Items: Live from Austin, TX Live from Austin TX Icky Thump Easy Tiger Kinky Friedman: Live From Austin Texas ASIN: B000R3PDIE Release Date: 2007-07-10

Tracks:

1. Amelia Earhart s Last Flight
2. Rapid City, South Dakota
3. Homo Erectus
4. Men s Room L.A.
5. Highway Café
6. Wild Man From Borneo
7. Carryin The Torch
8. Miss Nickelodian
9. Lover Please
10. Rock n Roll Across The U.S.A.
11. Mama Baby Mama
12. Arsehole From El Paso
13. They Ain t Making Jews Like Jesus Anymore
14. Ride em Jewboy

Product Description

From the vaults of the award-winning PBS Austin City Limits TV show, this is the latest release in the acclaimed Live From Austin, TX series.

Here it is: the only Austin City Limits program in over 30 years that has never aired on TV anywhere. For that matter, it s never even been seen anywhere, except by those lucky few who had access to a well-worn copy.

Kinky Friedman and The Texas Jewboys. Long before the Kinkster became a celebrated mystery writer in New York City, and waaay long before he became a candidate for Governor of the Great State of Texas, there was Kinky the country music singer and songwriter of the mid-1970 s. He was a paragon, a veritable pioneer of political incorrectness set to music, and there was nobody quite like him on the Austin music scene (or, for that matter, on the planet).

There he was on the Austin City Limits stage on November 11, 1975, in his finest rhinestone suit with fur-lined guitar strap, bounding through his entire catalogue of double-entendre ditties. The band never sounded better (nor looked, well, weirder). The audience loved every lyrically devilish twist. There was only one problem. They said it couldn t be aired. There s still some mystery about exactly who they were who made the decision to pull the show.
Now "they" have finally allowed this performance to be available.

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Why The Hell Not...The Songs Of Kinky Friedman Various Artists Manufacturer: Sustain Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Country | Styles | Music General | Folk | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Country Comedy | Comedy | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Country Rock | Rock | Styles | Music Similar Items: Last Of The Jewish Cowboys: The Best Of Kinky Friedman They Ain't Making Jews Like Jesus Anymore Modern Times The Christmas Pig: A Fable Snake Farm ASIN: B000HKDENS Release Date: 2006-09-26

Tracks:

1. Get Your Biscuits In The Oven - performed by Kevin Fowler
2. Sold American - performed by Lyle Lovett
3. Wild Man From Borneo - performed by Charlie Robison
4. Rapid City, South Dakota - performed by Dwight Yoakam
5. The Gospel According To John - performed by Jason Boland & The Stragglers
6. They Ain't Makin' Jews Like Jesus Anymore - performed by Todd Snider
7. Lady Yesterday - performed by Bruce Robison & Kelly Willis
8. Ride'em Jewboy - performed by Willie Nelson
9. Homo Erectus - Asleep At The Wheel & Reckless Kelly

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No entertainer has gotten more mileage out of recycling material than Kinky Friedman. Since his musical career peaked in the 1970s, the self-proclaimed Kinkster has transferred lines from his songs--and one-liners from his performances--into a series of mystery novels, magazine columns, and, most recently, an independent campaign to become governor of Texas. This revival of Kinky's material takes its title from one of Friedman's campaign slogans (another is "How hard could it be?") and four of its ten cuts from Pearls in the Snow, Friedman's previously released, self-commissioned tribute album. While that earlier release focused on Friedman's non-satirical material--with Lyle Lovett wringing every once of pathos from "Sold American" and Willie Nelson bringing a tender touch to "Ride 'Em Jewboy"--this album highlights some of Friedman's more outrageous material. A hard-driving "They Ain't Makin' Jews Like Jesus Anymore," a song designed to offend just about everyone, finds Todd Snider updating the lyrics as if Friedman's election were already a done deal. The raucous "Home Erectus" teams Asleep at the Wheel's Ray Benson with upstarts Reckless Kelly, while "Get Your Biscuits in the Oven (And Your Buns in the Bed)," Friedman's satirical slam of women's lib, gets a hard-twanging, honky-tonk treatment from Kevin Fowler. Whether Friedman is employing his notoriety as an entertainer to enhance his political prospects or using the campaign to raise his popular profile, it's all performance art. --Don McLeese

Average customer rating: Excellent reissue Love Kinky

They Ain't Making Jews Like Jesus Anymore Kinky Friedman Manufacturer: Bear Family ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Outlaw & Progressive Country | Country | Styles | Music General | Folk | Styles | Music Folk | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: Mayhem Aforethought - August 19, 1973 - You Are There Last Of The Jewish Cowboys: The Best Of Kinky Friedman Kinky Friedman - Proud to Be an A**Hole from El Paso Sold American Under the Double Ego ASIN: B000A5B2I4 Release Date: 2005-08-29

Tracks:

1. They Ain't Makin' Jews Like Jesus Anymore
2. Rapid City South Dakota
3. Popeye The Sailor Man
4. Homo Erectus
5. Lover Please
6. Wild Man From Borneo
7. Before All Hell Breaks Loose
8. Somethin's Wrong With The Beaver
9. When The Lord Closes The Door (He Opens...)
10. Miss Nickelodeon
11. Autograph
12. Sold American
13. Twinkle
14. Ahab The Arab
15. Dear Abbie
16. Kinky
17. Lady Yesterday
18. Catfish
19. Men's Room, L.A.
20. Bananas And Cream
21. Ol' Ben Lucas
22. Ballad Of Ira Hayes
23. Waitret Please Waitret
24. Kasey
25. If I Never Have Another Hit

Album Description

Who said "They ain't making Jews like Jesus anymore"? It was, of course, country music's resident iconoclast Kinky Friedman. These days, you'll find more Kinky Friedman books in bookstores than Kinky Friedman records in record stores. We're trying to change that by issuing his historic second and third LPs together on one CD. The second LP included the now-classic They Ain't Making Jews Like Jesus Anymore, as well as Kinky's version of Billy Swan's hit song Lover Please (Rock-a-Billy Swan had served an apprenticeship with Kinky). By the time of the third LP, Kinky was on Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue and had moved to Dylan's record label. Dylan gave him a song he had yet to record, Catfish (dedicated to the great baseball pitcher Catfish Hunter), Eric Clapton was on hand to play guitar, and Ringo Starr did a narration on one song. It was an all-star event, and, like the second LP, has never been reissued in Europe.

Album Details

Special Digitally Remastered CD that Combines the Contents of Two Original Classic Vinyl LPs to a Single CD. This Set Encompasses the Iconoclastic Texan's Self Titled Album that was Released on Abc Records in 1974 with his Controversial Epic Records Album "Lasso from El Paso" from 1976. In Addition, Two Tracks Recorded in 2005 Are Added to the Set List, "Kasey" and "if I Never have Another Hit". Be Prepared to Laugh Out Loud at Such Songs as the Title Track, "Men's Room in L.a." (Featuring Ringo Starr as the Voice of Jesus) and "Old Ben Lucas" with Eric Clapton Playing Dobro! Includes Extensive Liner Notes (Updated to Mention the Kinkster's Run for Governor of Texas) with Super Four Color Photo Artwork. Both Albums Are Essential for Any Fans of 70's Country Rock, Dark Mystery Novels and Politics! "How Hard Could it Be?"

Customer Reviews:

Excellent reissue.......2006-12-28

Here we have the Kinkster's 1974 self-titled album and "Lasso From El Paso" from 1976, plus 2 previously unreleased bonus tracks.
Top notch packaging as usual from the German 'Bear Family' label.
Get this and the remastered "Sold American" (1973) and you'll have Kinky's finest (recorded) work.

Love Kinky.......2006-11-04

Great CD. Never realized Kinky was so good. I play this CD for friends who are hearing it for the first time and get roars of laughter from the leadoff title tune.Its a hit with both Jews and gentiles.Later cuts display wonderful musicality by Kinky and his Texas Jewboys If we were Texans we would vote for Kinky for governor.

Average customer rating: Love the Kinkster! country music's leading intellectual (and clown) Ride 'em Kinky buried treasure Two fine tracks

Kinky Friedman Kinky Friedman Manufacturer: Varese Sarabande ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Country | Styles | Music Outlaw & Progressive Country | Country | Styles | Music General | Folk | Styles | Music Country Rock | Rock | Styles | Music ASIN: B0000014UC Release Date: 1994-05-10

Tracks:

1. Rapid City, South Dakota
2. Popeye the Sailor Man
3. Homo Erectus
4. Lover Please
5. Wild Man From Borneo
6. Before All Hell Breaks Loose
7. Somethin's Wrong With the Beaver
8. When the Lord Closes the Door (He Opens a Little Window)
9. Miss Nickelodeon
10. Autograph
11. They Ain't makin' Jews Like Jesus Anymore

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Kinky's self-titled second album includes many of his best creations, and it works because, no matter how far the lyrics stray from traditional country terrain, the songs are always delivered with sincerity, conviction, and high-quality musicianship. Arrangements range from steel-drenched honky-tonk to peppy swing to orchestral ballads, while lyrical themes range from the pseudo-gospel to the adolescent, the satirical to the nonsensical, the mundane to the mystical. Another highlight is Friedman's hysterical liner notes, which discuss the travails of a "Texas Jewboy" dealing with record execs and coming to grips with his station in country-music society. Originally released in 1974, this record must have done something right, for it precipitated appearances on both the Grand Ole Opry and Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue. --Marc Greilsamer

Customer Reviews:

Love the Kinkster!.......2006-08-27

I feel like reviewing the guy rather than just this CD. You don't mind, do you?

TEN LITTLE NEW YORKERS by Kinky Friedman

If you've read any of his novels, any at all, ask yourself how in the heck you describe the guy. It's a matter of sifting through superlatives, knowing they all apply, and hoping you chose the most accurate ones.

Kinky Friedman was a county and western musician who was probably too original for the establishment. Do you remember when Willie Nelson was too innovative for Nashville? A mere wisp of ganja smoke away, Kinky was singing a pro-choice song, and a song called "Homo Erectus," and a big ole pile of songs equally unfriendly to radio airplay. Damn intelligent lyrics.

The only hit to ever come out of Kinky Friedman and the Texas Jewboys was "Lover Please" by Billy Swan, who was formerly a Jewboy. Don Imus listeners have quite probably heard Kinky's "They Ain't Makin' Jews Like Jesus Anymore."

After that, Kinky tried his hand at writing murder mysteries. The main character is some guy named Kinky Friedman, a former country musician turned amateur detective. This is the nineteenth book in what may well be the most unique and unforgettable series in the history of literature.

Keen insight. Brilliant word play. An honesty and utter disregard for political correctness that most authors only dream of, and that make me hope you Texans elect this guy as your next governor. An unforgettable cast of Village Irregulars and a tip of the ten-gallon hat to Sherlock Holmes. And cats! You'll always laugh and you'll always think.

In April, I wrote: "Kinky Friedman is my favorite novelist. If you've never read him, I suggest ROADKILL, or a trilogy including it, at your local library. After Kinky almost died, his fiction evolved, and you can see that in THE PRISONER OF VANDAM STREET. I haven't had time to read TEN LITTLE NEW YORKERS, which he wrote next and which is in our flat. But now he's also written some essays. The collection, entitled SCUSE ME WHILE I WHIP THIS OUT, is so perceptive and well written that I alternate between (as a reader) genuine appreciation and (as an essayist who'd like to be one of the best) much wailing and gnashing of teeth."

Well, I've read TEN LITTLE NEW YORKERS and will do so again later on. It might be his finest. It's damn sure a contender. Y'all get it. Then, if you live in Texas, vote for a man who inhaled and ain't afraid to tell ya straight.

country music's leading intellectual (and clown).......2004-01-28

One of my favourite records for nigh on 30 years - what more can I say? I don't like calling songs 'poetry' but Kinky's work is certainly literature - more than his books, anyway!! - in its depth and ambiguity. (I'm talking about the words now - the tunes are just out for a good time.) Half this album is country (check the personnel!) half is good-time music (GREAT production) but the whole combines pathos with subversion.

Ride 'em Kinky.......2003-06-25

I don't like this album as much as "Sold American" but still thinks it's excellent stuff. I'm not a huge fan of country music but think the Kinkster manages to get just the right blend of tunefulness and humour. It's a shame he isn't better known for his music in the UK, most people here only know him for his crime novels (if they've heard of him at all that is). Keep ridin' 'em, Kinky!!

buried treasure.......2001-05-22

If you listen to Dont go back to Rockville back to back with Rapid City, South Dakota, then you will know REM must have used that song as a blue print. The songs are both in the same key and lyrically, very similar. Buy this album because Kinky Friedman is a great album that inspires you more with each listen.

Two fine tracks.......2000-01-29

The first album, Sold Am, will always remean classic, this one only contains two pearls: Rapid city and Jews like Jesus.

Average customer rating: This Album is a Gem The Kinkster Is A Classic SOLD AMERICAN But this album! My Hero!

Sold American Kinky Friedman Manufacturer: Vanguard Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Country | Styles | Music Outlaw & Progressive Country | Country | Styles | Music General | Folk | Styles | Music Country Comedy | Comedy | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Country Rock | Rock | Styles | Music General | Country | Indie Music | Stores | Music Traditional Country | Country | Indie Music | Stores | Music General | Folk | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Under the Double Ego ASIN: B000000EKY Release Date: 1991-11-26

Tracks:

1. We Reserve The Right To Refuse Service To You
2. Highway Cafe
3. Sold American
4. Flyin' Down The Freeway
5. Ride 'Em Jewboy
6. Get Your Biscuits In The Oven And Your Buns In The Bed
7. High On Jesus
8. The Ballad Of Charles Whitman
9. Top Ten Commandments
10. Western Union Wire
11. Silver Eagle Express

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How far left of center is Kinky Friedman in terms of the country-music establishment? It took some string-pulling from none other than Commander Cody, that bastion of country conservatism, to get Friedman his contract with Vanguard. This 1973 debut would be the Kinkster's only Vanguard release, and it introduced the world to his compelling and confounding musical vision. Everyone remembers absurd titles such as "Get Your Biscuits in the Oven and Your Buns in the Bed" and "High On Jesus," but the real reasons to dig this up are the serious and sensitive songs. "Ride 'Em Jewboy" is a touching Holocaust lyric, and "Sold American," about forgotten country stars and crass commercialism, inspired cover versions from both the Kingston Trio and Glen Campbell. Top Nashville pickers Norman Blake, John Hartford, and Doyle Grisham give the music its authentic country style. --Marc Greilsamer

Customer Reviews:

This Album is a Gem.......2002-12-21

As a musician, Kinky Friedman has always been known for his humorous side. And if that's what you're into, this album contains several of his funniest and most offensive (to the politically correct) songs: "Get Your Biscuits in the Oven and Your Buns in the Bed" and the immortally deranged "Ballad of Charles Whitman," to name two.

The Kinkster Is A Classic.......2001-06-14

I bought this album (Sold American) by Kinky Friedman after borrowing a tape of it from a friend. It's from the early 1970s and has something from that era for everyone. Whether it is a humorous look at women's lib (Get Your Biscuits In The Oven And Your Buns In The Bed) or the simple country anguish of Western Union Wire, Kinky Friedman & the Texas Jewboys bring their own individual style to every song on this cd. The best song, evoking Kinky's Texas Jewish roots, is Ride 'Em Jewboy.

SOLD AMERICAN.......2001-01-12

I have the l.p. of SOLD AMERICAN and I listen to it all day long. Every song on this album is great. In some of the songs KINKY sounds a little like Bob Dylan. I would like to find a chat room , where I can chat about KINKY FRIEDMAN.. Can anyone help me..My favorite songs are SOLD AMERICAN, HIGH ON JESUS, WESTERN UNION WIRE, WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO SERVE YOU, SILVER EAGLE, AND THE ONE ABOUT THE TEXAS SHOOTER (FORGOT THE TITLE)

But this album!.......2000-06-17

The Kinksta predates most punk bands by several years, but has that attitude that would alienate all the people that deserve to be alienated i.e anyone who takes themselves too seriously. I can't add any comment on the music that hasn't been said on this page already (OK, I'm not much of a music critic....)so just buy it and enjoy it.

My Hero!.......2000-02-11

If all of the songs on this album had been of the level of quality and/or cutting sarcasm as "Sold American", "We Reserve the Right to Refuse Service to You" or "Ride 'Em Jewboy" (to pick some of the better ones more or less at random), it would be a five-star effort.

As it is, "High on Jesus" and "Top Ten Commandments", among others, drag it down one level -- these are neither truly believable as what they sound like, nor sufficiently satirical to actually make a point.

That said, You Still Need This Album.

You Need It because of "Sold American" and "Silver Eagle Express" -- two perfectly touching country ballads of lost youth, lost innocence and lost dreams.

You Need It because of "Western Union Wire", a classic country honkytonk tear-in-the-beer song with a twist.

You Need It because of "We Reserve the Right to Refuse Service to You", "The Ballad of Charles Whitman" and "Flyin' Down the Freeway", three deadpan sardonic takes on aspects of life from Kinky's twisted perspective.

And You Need It because "Ride 'Em Jewboy" sounds as if it ought to be another piece of black humourous satire... and turns out to be a touching meditation on the Holocaust.

Mostly, You Need It because it's a unique American voice at the peak of his talent, and you shouldn't miss it, no matter what kind of music you usually listen to.

Average customer rating: Great overlooked album how was it for y'all?

Under the Double Ego Kinky Friedman Manufacturer: Sphincter Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Outlaw & Progressive Country | Country | Styles | Music General | Folk | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Country Rock | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Country Comedy | Comedy | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Similar Items: They Ain't Making Jews Like Jesus Anymore Mayhem Aforethought - August 19, 1973 - You Are There Sold American Classic Snatches from Europe Kinky Friedman - Proud to Be an A**Hole from El Paso ASIN: B0000VJFOG Release Date: 2003-11-11

Tracks:

1. People Who Read People Magazine
2. Marilyn And Joe
3. The Take-It-Easy Trailer Park
4. Skatin' On Thin Ice
5. The Gospel Accordin' To John
6. Hello, Good Mornin'
7. Twirl
8. Nashville Casualty And Life
9. Keep On The Sunny Side

Customer Reviews:

Great overlooked album.......2006-10-23

Have never understood why this collection never took off on the charts--I love just about every song which is unusual for an album. I am delighted to see it finally got made into a CD (OK I am 3 years late it seems, but I had given up after trying to find the CD for years.) Great music, penetrating insights, sensitive warmth--and good fun.

how was it for y'all?.......2004-09-15

The Kinkster's last album of all-new material (before his admirable live compilations) this one actually came out in 1983 originally - which is where it SHOULD appear in the 'original release date' sequence; now would someone please review it, please? I have to give it 5 stars because it's Kinky, but should I buy it?? Original band members are invited, nay urged to comment...

Average customer rating: Folky Country Classic Enjoyed it for years Not worth buying!!

From One Good American to Another Kinky Friedman Manufacturer: Fruit of the Tune ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Country | Styles | Music Outlaw & Progressive Country | Country | Styles | Music General | Folk | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Country Rock | Rock | Styles | Music Country Comedy | Comedy | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music General | Classic Rock | Styles | Music Similar Items: Old Testaments & New Revelations Sold American Under the Double Ego Mayhem Aforethought - August 19, 1973 - You Are There Kinky Friedman's Guide to Texas Etiquette: Or How to Get to Heaven or Hell Without Going Through Dallas-Fort Worth ASIN: B000008PPR Release Date: 1995-09-05

Tracks:

1. Rock And Roll Across The USA
2. Shield Of Abraham
3. The Boogie Man
4. Ramblin' Boy
5. Old Shep
6. Pretty Boy Floyd
7. The Ballad Of Ira Hayes
8. Hobo's Lullaby
9. Amelia Earhart's Last Flight
10. Rapid City, South Dakota
11. They Ain't Makin' Jews Like Jesus Anymore
12. Cherokee Shuffle
13. Miss Nickelodeon
14. Somethin's Wrong With The Beaver
15. Lover Please
16. Mama, Baby, Mama Let Me Jump In Your Pajamas
17. Carrying The Torch
18. Father Let Thy Blessings
19. Ride Em' Jewboy
20. God Bless John Wayne(The People Who Read People Ma

Customer Reviews:

Folky Country Classic .......2004-12-26

If you want to hear the BEST of Kinky - get his 1st LP - Sold American - (which has just been re-released by Ace with a couple of extra tracks). After that I would completely recommend this.

The humour, irony, melody and political incorrectness of Kinky run thru it in abundance (and despite the right-ish image he trys to give off - if you listen to his words and think about it - I actually think he is a bit of lefty!)

The reviewer who gave this 1 star and said "it stinks" is quite frankly an idiot. If you are that person and you are reading this - go and buy a Celine Dion CD, it sounds like she would suit you.

Enjoyed it for years.......2000-07-20

I'm amazed at the previous review. I received this album as a gift several years ago along with one of Kinky's books, and I have to say I've continued to play it and enjoy it. Kinky is fun, creative, and completely irreverent and politically incorrect. Not only that, he's a good musician -- some of his renditions of Woody Guthrie's work are great! If you want to laugh -- and think -- even at the same time -- look no further.

Not worth buying!!.......1999-04-18

This CD sucks. I ordered it for my husband's birthday after we had bought and enjoyed "Pearls in the Snow." But this CD was not worth any of the money it cost. I would send it back for a refund if I could. It Stinks!!

Average customer rating: Outlaw country with crackling satire and heart "They Ain't Makin' Jews Like Jesus Anymore A classic... Thank You!! You're Welcome!!

Sold American Kinky Friedman Manufacturer: Vanguard Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Country | Styles | Music Outlaw & Progressive Country | Country | Styles | Music General | Folk | Styles | Music Country Comedy | Comedy | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Country Rock | Rock | Styles | Music Similar Items: They Ain't Making Jews Like Jesus Anymore Under the Double Ego Mayhem Aforethought - August 19, 1973 - You Are There Kinky Friedman - Proud to Be an A**Hole from El Paso Pearls in the Snow ASIN: B0000AZKNO Release Date: 2003-09-09

Tracks:

1. We Reserve the Right to Refuse Service to You
2. Highway Caf
3. Sold American
4. Flyin' Down the Freeway
5. Ride 'Em Jewboy
6. Get Your Biscuits in the Oven and Your Buns in the Bed
7. High on Jesus
8. Ballad of Charles Whitman
9. Top Ten Commandments
10. Western Union Wire
11. Silver Eagle Express
12. Nashville Casualty and Life [#]
13. Tramp on the Street [#]

Customer Reviews:

Outlaw country with crackling satire and heart.......2006-12-13

The oversized public persona of Kinky Friedman is better known as the eponymous character he's developed in a series of popular detective novels. Those who know Friedman's music are often familiar only with the rabble-rousing satire of songs like "Get Your Biscuits in the Oven and Your Buns in the Bed" and "High on Jesus." But even at his most sarcastic, there was a point beyond the hackle raising. Friedman was a true iconoclast, coming into his own in the age of outlaw country (and spurred on by no less than Commander Cody), and he wrote and sang with the remarkable freedom of that age. This 1973 debut remains his greatest musical statement.

One need only look beneath the acoustic country production and rabble-rousing exteriors of a title like "Ride 'em Jewboy" to find a compassionate tribute to a holocaust survivor. Similarly, the album's jokey opener, "We Reserve the Right to Refuse Service to You," has something deeper to say about prejudice than its sing-along chorus suggests on a first hearing. Texas in the early '70s wasn't the most hospitable place for freaks or Jews, especially not for freaky Jews, and Friedman parlays his experiences into a more universal message to outcasts of all stripes.

In contrast to firecrackers like "High on Jesus" and "The Ballad of Charles Whitman," Friedman wrote more subtle songs such as the title track's story of a closing musical frontier and a faded singing cowboy. What's particularly impressive is that the writing isn't either-or, but instead a mesh of the sacred, profane, understanding and acidic, with incisiveness always lurking beneath the surface. Chuck Glaser's mostly acoustic production provides the perfect low-key background, allowing the lyrics' wit to unfold without musical histrionics.

Friedman would never make an album as solid as this, venturing to Los Angeles for a mis-produced follow-up in '74, and minting a looser Rolling Thunder styled LP in '76 before taking a hiatus from recording. Neither of the follow-up releases approached the confluence of this initial burst of creativity and mid-70s country-on-the-margins sound. Unfortunately, the combination of political viewpoint and country music didn't satisfy either big city intellectuals or mainstream country fans, and the album flopped commercially.

Vanguard's 30th anniversary CD reissue augments the original album with a pair of bonus tracks ("Nashville Casualty and Life" and "Tramp on the Street") that date from the original sessions, and a four-part video interview with Friedman that was conducted in 2003. This is a great package of a seminal album whose influence has far outstripped its original sales. [©2006 redtunictroll at hotmail dot com]

"They Ain't Makin' Jews Like Jesus Anymore.......2005-02-11

Kinky knows the basic difference between Christianity and Judaism is that "Jesus Saves and Moses Invests". So do yourself a big favor and invest a few bucks on this here Kinkster Klassic. Orginally released in '73 on Vangaurd Records, THE bastion of folk music, the likes of Joan Baez and Eric Anderson. But let us not forget that the same Vangaud brought us irreverent delight in Country Joe & the Fish's ode to LBJ "Super Bird". And remember the late great Richard Farina? Hewas also a Vangaurd recording artist. His "House On Un-American Activity Blues" was about as subversive as it during LBJ's tenure in the White House.

Then there was Kinky and his ultra smooth backup unit, "The Texas Jew Boys". Yep, Kinky says "They ain't makin' Jews like Jesus anymore". Come to think of it, they ain't makin' great record albums like Sold American anymore neither. Why Hell!!!!They ain't makin' record albums anymore neither!!!

A classic..........2004-11-01

Kinky is better known for "novelty" type tunes like 'Get Your Biscuits in the Oven and Your Buns in the Bed"'; his more poignant work is often overlooked and that is unfortunate because those songs (most noteably "Ride 'em Jewboy") illustrate what a talented songwriter the man is. This album remains my favorite and it deserves to be distributed more widely than it has. "Sold American" is better than anything the plastic cowboys (like Garth Brooks) have ever put out--in my opinion, just about every song on this album is better than any of that dreck Nashville pushes on us today. I defy any of the vapid what-passes-for-country-music pretty boy today to top "Ride 'em Jewboy" or "Nashville Casualty and Life". I challenge them to write something better than "Western Union Wire". They can't.

Get this album first, then get "Kinky Friedman" and "Lasso from El Paso". Finally, get "Pearls in the Snow".

Go. Now.

Thank You!! You're Welcome!!.......2003-09-23

A welcome return to an old favourite. Nice to see this great album back on the racks and sounding so good. Add to the newly remastered sound two bonus tracks (the original versions of old favourites, "Nashville Casualty and Life" and "Tramp on the Street") and a very well presented enhanced PC featurette, and you've got a real winner. Congratulations Vanguard for a nice re-issue, and thanks Kinky for the great music (you're welcome!!).

Average customer rating: a must own album Outstanding...the kinky Kinkster is the best there is!

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Tracks:

1. We Reserve The Right To Refuse Service To You
2. Western Union Wire
3. Highway Cafe
4. Get Your Biscuits In The Oven And Your Buns In The...
5. High On Jesus
6. Sold American
7. Ballad Of Charles Whitman
8. Silver Eagle Express
9. Flying Down The Freeway
10. Why Do You Bob Your Nose, Girl? (Second Hand Nose)
11. Old Ben Lucas
12. Men's Room, L.A.
13. Waitret, Please, Waitret
14. Tramp On The Street
15. Nashville Casualty And Life
16. Homo Erectus
17. Asshole From El Paso
18. Wild Man From Borneo
19. Ride 'Em Jewboy
20. Schwinn Twenty-Four
21. They Ain't Makin' Jews Like Jesus Anymore

Customer Reviews:

a must own album.......2005-03-06

This CD has made many road trips with me, and if you could wear out a CD I"ll probably wear out this one, I love it so. One classic after another. It opens with a bang--"We Reserve the Right to Refuse service to You,"--and what blind person, like myself, hasn't heard that a time or three? "Highway Cafe" is an up-tempo take on a sadly common tale of love lost. "Biscuits in the Oven," is the battle cry of old-school men who know it's not like that any more--and wish it still were. "Western Union Wire," "Sold American," and "Nashville Casualty and Life," are slower sad ballads, showing the range Kinky has. "Ballad of Charles Wittman," would have been a natural for Johnny Horton, had he still been alive in 1966 when Wittman did what he did. "Silver Eagle," is an unforgettable song about a forgotten train from the earliest days of railroads. and on and on it goes. This is one of the dozen or so I'd want to take with me if I were about to begin a life sentence in Siberia.

Outstanding...the kinky Kinkster is the best there is!.......1999-05-02

This album contains some of Kinky Friesmans best songs, and his best song are among the best there is! They are full of humour, witt and talent! I'm all for the kinkster...

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