Kinky Friedman
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Remembering Kinky Friedman’s campaign for Texas governor
Carol Dennis
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Kinky Friedman, Proudly Eccentric Texas Singer-Songwriter, Dead at 79
Carol Dennis
Kinky Friedman, the eccentric country singer-songwriter whose musings, novels, one-liners and quixotic gubernatorial run made him a folk hero, died ...