Monday, July 26 2010
Seattle Post Intelligencer | After Dark
Texas country singer, novelist, humorist, cigar peddler and former gubernatorial candidate Richard S. "Kinky" Friedman hasn't written a new song in at least 20 years. But such tunes as "The Ballard of Charles Whitman" (the Texas tower sniper), "Ride 'Em Jewboy" and his cover of Chinga Chavin's "A**hole from El Paso" have brought him a cult following that extends as far away as Europe.
"This European tour we did last year was really something," Friedman, 65, said by phone from his Texas ranch. "It was all sold out and we went to seven different countries. And the audiences were very young and they knew every lyric and they'd read every book. Story continues here