Consumer Guide Album

Kinky Friedman: Sold American [Vanguard, 1973]
Too bad Kinky's unique cross between Don Rickles and Woody Guthrie extends to his singing. Doesn't matter on the lip-smackingly tasteless "Ballad of Charles Whitman" or the foolproof "We Reserve the Right to Refuse Service." But when he gets a leetle serious, as on the title song or the signature "Ride 'Em Jewboy," you wish his voice could convey something of what he means. B