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Everything's bigger in Texas : the life and times of Kinky Friedman
- Title
- Everything's bigger in Texas : the life and times of Kinky Friedman / Mary Lou Sullivan.
- Author
- Sullivan, Mary Lou
- Publication
- Milwaukee, WI : Backbeat Books, an imprint of Hal Leonard LLC, 2017.
- ©2017
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Details
- Description
- xii, 332 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 24 cm
- Summary
- 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.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Biographies.
- Biography.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Discography: page 307.
- Contents
- Foreword / by Kinky Friedman -- Growing up in the Lone Star State -- Austin and the University of Texas -- Peace Corps in Borneo -- Jewish cowboy in Nashville -- On the road with the Texas Jewboys -- Banned at Austin City Limits -- Bob Dylan and the L.A. scene -- Running wild in the Big Apple -- Back at the ranch with a Smith-Corona -- Friends in high places -- The man in the arean -- The lasting legacy of Kinky Friedman.
- Call Number
- JNE 18-4
- ISBN
- 9781495058967
- 1495058964
- LCCN
- 2017017303
- OCLC
- 971361841
- Author
- Sullivan, Mary Lou, author.
- Title
- Everything's bigger in Texas : the life and times of Kinky Friedman / Mary Lou Sullivan.
- Publisher
- Milwaukee, WI : Backbeat Books, an imprint of Hal Leonard LLC, 2017.
- Copyright Date
- ©2017
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.Discography: page 307.
- Research Call Number
- JNE 18-4