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

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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 ...

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