Singer, songwriter, provocateur and politician Kinky Friedman dead at 79

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Singer, songwriter, provocateur and politician Kinky Friedman dead at 79
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Kinky Friedman, the singer, songwriter, satirist and novelist who also dabbled in Texas politics with a campaign for governor, has died.

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“We were the only two people with tuxedos and cowboys hats. Two Texans gravitating toward each other." Perkins said. “He was the last free person on earth ... He had an irreverence about him. He was a fearless writer.” By the 1980s, Friedman was writing crime novels that often included a version of himself, and he wrote a column for Texas Monthly magazine in the 2000s.

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