Listen to: Kinky Friedman

“My governor is a Jewish Cowboy.”
“He ain’t Kinky, he’s my governor.”
“Why the Hell not?”

If you weren’t in the general vicinity of Austin, Texas in 2006 you probably missed these bumper stickers as well as some of Kinky Friedman’s other campaign slogans which included, “How hard can it be?” and a whole series of television ads featuring the likes of Willie Nelson, Billy Joe Shaver and the Dixie Chicks.

While he lost the gubernatorial race and with it the opportunity to start the “dewussification of Texas” the former child-chess-player-turned-musician-turned-author is just as funny, and potentially offensive as he ever was.

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Dixie Chicks – Pepsi Center, CO

July 8, 2003
A look back at the Dixie Chicks “Top Of The World” tour stop in Denver.

Seven Thirty, Michelle Branch comes on. She sang a few songs I knew and she was really good. So real. She took her shoes off half way through and sang the rest the show barefoot.

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