Everything's bigger in Texas
Subtitle: the life and times of Kinky Friedman
By: Mary Lou Sullivan
Publisher: Backbeat Books
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9781495058967
Subjects: Country musicians; Biography
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-317) and index.

Discography: page 307.