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Kinky Friedman Dies: Musician, Writer, Satirist & Former TX Gubernatorial Candidate Was 79
The Texas-raised musician, writer, satirist, dog lover, gubernatorial candidate and overall provocateur died Thursday.
Kinky Friedman — the Texas-raised musician, writer, satirist, dog lover, gubernatorial candidate and overall provocateur — died after a battle with Parkinson’s on Thursday at his Echo Hill Ranch in TX, according to a post on his X account. In 1976, he joined the second leg of Bob Dylan’s storied Rolling Thunder Revue Tour alongside Joan Baez, Roger McGuinn, Mick Ronson and others. In 1993, Friedman wrote an uncharacteristically-serious eulogy for his fourteen year old cat Cuddles, who featured in his books, which ended in a reflection on the afterlife.
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