{"id":2937,"date":"2024-07-07T16:37:20","date_gmt":"2024-07-07T16:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sciencesandnatures.com\/?p=2937"},"modified":"2024-07-07T16:37:21","modified_gmt":"2024-07-07T16:37:21","slug":"beloved-country-singer-found-dead-this-morning-at-his-home-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sciencesandnatures.com\/beloved-country-singer-found-dead-this-morning-at-his-home-in-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"Beloved country singer found dead this morning at his home in Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Artistes The actor Richard \u201cKinky\u201d Friedman has died.\n\n\n\n</p><p>He was 79 years old.\n\n\n\n</p><p>The news came through X on Thursday.\n\n\n\n</p><p>\u201cKinky Friedman stepped on a rainbow at his beloved Echo Hill surrounded by family &amp; friends,\u201d said it.\n\n\n\n</p><p>\u201cKinkster endured tremendous pain &amp; unthinkable loss in recent years but he never lost his fighting spirit and quick wit.\u201d\n\n\n\n<figure class='\"wp-block-image\"'><img decoding='\"async\"' src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/ddnews.us%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2024%5C/07%5C/1-6.png%5C%22" alt='\"\"' class='\"wp-image-6426\"\/'>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cKinky will live on as his books are read and his songs are sung,\u201d said the post.\n\n\n\n</p><p>His name was John and he went to the University of Texas at Austin.\n\n\n\n</p><p>The exact day he died was not given.\n\n\n\n</p><p>However, Kinky also ran for governor of Texas as an independent candidate in 2006.\n\n\n\n</p><p>With 12% of the vote, he came in fourth place out of six candidates.\n\n\n\n</p><p>PROFILE IN MUSIC<br>King Arthur &amp; the Carrots was Kinky\u2019s first band, which he started at UT.\n\n\n\n</p><p>They only made one record in 1966, which was Schwinn 24\/Beach Party Boo Boo.\n\n\n\n</p><p>Surf music was made fun of by King Arthur &amp; The Carrots.\n\n\n\n</p><p>Ginky Friedman and the Texas Jewboys was Richard\u2019s second band. They were formed in 1973.\n\n\n\n</p><p>They didn\u2019t stay together for long, and Kinky\u2019s self-titled album came out in 1974.\n\n\n\n<figure class='\"wp-block-image\"'><img decoding='\"async\"' src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/ddnews.us%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2024%5C/07%5C/2-5.png%5C%22" alt='\"\"' class='\"wp-image-6427\"\/'>\n\n\n\n<p>Following two years, Kinky went on tour with Bob Dylan.\n\n\n\n</p><p>He was a musical guest on Season 2 of Saturday Night Live after the tour.\n\n\n\n</p><p>In 2011, the artist went on a world tour as the main act.\n\n\n\n</p><p>KiNKY has put out 18 albums so far. His most recent one, Circus of Life, came out in 2018.\n\n\n\n</p><p>NOTHING ELSE<br>Later, when Richard\u2019s music career stopped going forward in the 1980s, he started writing.\n\n\n\n<figure class='\"wp-block-image\"'><img decoding='\"async\"' src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/ddnews.us%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2024%5C/07%5C/3-2.png%5C%22" alt='\"\"' class='\"wp-image-6428\"\/'>\n\n\n\n<p>He mostly wrote detective books, which have made-up versions of himself and lyrics from his songs.\n\n\n\n</p><p>In New York City, the character fights crime while telling jokes, giving advice, recipes, and charm.\n\n\n\n</p><p>In his mind, he is like Sherlock Holmes from a different time.\n\n\n\n</p><p>Kinky Friedman did not appear in Kill Two Birds and Get Stoned or The Christmas Pig, two books that Kinky wrote.\n\n\n\n</p><p>Additionally, he had a regular column for Texas Monthly from 2001 to 2005.\n\n\n\n<figure class='\"wp-block-image\"'><img decoding='\"async\"' src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/ddnews.us%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2024%5C/07%5C/6-1.png%5C%22" alt='\"\"' class='\"wp-image-6429\"\/'>\n\n\n\n<p>He stopped writing the column when he ran for governor in 2006.\n\n\n\n</p><p>But two years later, the newspaper brought back his column every two months.\n\n\n\n</p><p>In 1986, Richard ran as a Republican for Justice of the Peace in Kerrville, Texas, but lost. This was before he ran for Governor.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"</p><div class='\"mh-excerpt\"'><p>Artistes The actor Richard \u201cKinky\u201d Friedman has died. He was 79 years old. The news came through X on Thursday. \u201cKinky Friedman stepped on a <a class='\"mh-excerpt-more\"' href="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/sciencesandnatures.com%5C/beloved-country-singer-found-dead-this-morning-at-his-home-in-texas%5C/%5C%22" title='\"Beloved' country singer found dead this morning at his home in texas>[&hellip;]\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2938,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sciencesandnatures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2937"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sciencesandnatures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sciencesandnatures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sciencesandnatures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sciencesandnatures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2937"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sciencesandnatures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2939,"href":"https:\/\/sciencesandnatures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2937\/revisions\/2939"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sciencesandnatures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sciencesandnatures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sciencesandnatures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sciencesandnatures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}</a></p></div></figure></p></figure></p></figure></p></figure></p>