Joshua Merwin for The New York Times
Life is too short to be guilty about pleasures and to waste on acquiring tastes, so I will own up to being an admirer of Kinky Friedman. I enjoyed seeing him at the Lone Star and I enjoyed his novels because the home base of his protagonist was a stone's throw away from Our Lady of Vilnius in a barely fictitious address on Vandam Street. I always considered him to be the clownish astral twin of Leonard Cohen. Now the album he was working on as he approached death is being released and I am going to listen.
Keep an ear out for "The Poet of Motel 6," scheduled for release on March 21st.
Read all about it in The New York Times: Satirical Singer Kinky Friedman’s Posthumous Surprise: A Sincere Album
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