Kinky Friedman — seen here at Willie Nelson's Fourth of July Picnic — ran for governor in 2006, using campaign slogans like,"How hard could it be?"
Friedman's musical performances embraced satire. His band titled one song,"Get Your Biscuits in the Oven and Your Buns in the Bed.""Willie called — my psychiatrist Willie Nelson,” Friedman explained to TPR in 2018. “He says, 'What are you doin', Kink?' and I said, 'I'm watchingWhen Willie tells you to write songs, apparently, you write songs, he said." wrote a dozen of them in one month.""When I finished, I was pretty excited.
"He was a Texas legend," said Laura Stromberg Hoke, who worked for his 2006 campaign."He was a little bit of everything. He was a musician, an author — a pretty successful author. Bill Clinton always said Kinky was one of his favorite authors. He was an aspiring politician, but he certainly didn't want to be your run-of-the-mill politician. He was really trying to run against everything that Texas politics stood for. He was a poet at heart.
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