The late singer-songwriter / novelist / Texas gubernatorial candidate Kinky Friedman was a complicated man, an individual ...

Yet the Kinkster had a tender side, too. Poet of Motel 6, his evocative posthumous album, finds Friedman confronting death ...

This was also true of Friedman’s last two records, but the contemplation of loss and mortality cuts closer to the bone on ...

The low clouds of grief scud across the otherwise sunny surface of Kinky Friedman’s final ... just over a half hour in length, Friedman recorded these 10 songs, his first new work in six years ...

The finale of “Whitney Walton Has Flown Away” pays tribute to an unbelievable character, just as interesting as Kinky himself ...

He was 79. Born Nov. 1, 1944, Friedman came to the music world’s attention in the early and mid-1970s with his band Kinky ...