Kinky Friedman Concert Review And Photo’s
Boy i tell ya what. They just aint makin’em like they used to! Kinky Friedman one of the last of his kind, an aging Jewish cowboy graced the stage of the Buffalo Iron Works recently with his roots folk/ country show. This Chicago born, Texas raised, entertainer shook off the sawdust to bring his new album “Circus of Life” on tour. He tells us he was uplifted and inspired by a conversation in which he was told to “turn off Matlock” by Wille Nelson who kinky references as his “shrink”.
This was Nelsons way of telling kinky to shake off the depression and get to work writing a new album. So he did and thus a new album and new tour bring him across country to us. With bar, balcony and seats full, the crowd was what one might expect of a folk/ country show. The crowd goers adorned with cowboy hats and boots and of course a few with their polished bolos and pressed,patterned shirts. Kinky doesn’t just fill his show with folk songs but also introduces them with spun yarns of their sometimes sad sometimes funny origins.
With stories involving a range of famous people from Bill Clinton to Nelson Mandela. Hanging intently to this finely aged folk artists every word, the crowd seemed to show a range of appropriate responses from hilarious applause to deep introspection. With satirical song titles and less than politically correct vocabulary that at first introduction might make the average liberal cringe, one might not expect that many of his songs show a true understanding of the duality of the human condition.
Songs like “Ride’em Jew Boy” a sad and solemn tribute to the survivors of the holocaust made some crowd goers shed silent tears. All in all it was a stirring evening with the self dubbed “Asshole from el Paso.” Winner of the “male chauvinist pig award of 1973. Absolutely a time not to be missed! So if you get the chance to, go witness a bit of classic folk Americana before the last remnants fully give way to the modernized repetitive and patterned country music my generation has become accustomed to. Heres to you Kinky Freidman!
Click Here to See Our Interview with Kinky
Review By Quinn Hadley
Buffalo Iron Works 7/6/18
