Kinky Friedman - Sold American: 30th Anniversary Edition
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Artist: Kinky FriedmanEdition: Music CD
Format: Enhanced, Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2003-09-09
Music Label: Vanguard Records
Soundtracks:
- We Reserve the Right to Refuse Service to You
- Highway Café
- Sold American
- Flyin' Down the Freeway
- Ride 'Em Jewboy
- Get Your Biscuits in the Oven and Your Buns in the Bed
- High on Jesus
- The Ballad of Charles Whitman
- Top Ten Commandments
- Western Union Wire
- Silver Eagle Express
- Nashville Casualty and Life [#]
- The Tramp on the Street [#]
Free Music Notes for Sold American: 30th Anniversary Edition
Free Music Review: Outlaw country with crackling satire and heart
Hit: 5 Stars
The oversized public persona of Kinky Friedman is better known as the eponymous character he's developed in a series of popular detective novels. Those who know Friedman's music are often familiar only with the rabble-rousing satire of songs like "Get Your Biscuits in the Oven and Your Buns in the Bed" and "High on Jesus." But even at his most sarcastic, there was a point beyond the hackle raising. Friedman was a true iconoclast, coming into his own in the age of outlaw country (and spurred on by no less than Commander Cody), and he wrote and sang with the remarkable freedom of that age. This 1973 debut remains his greatest musical statement.
One need only look beneath the acoustic country production and rabble-rousing exteriors of a title like "Ride 'em Jewboy" to find a compassionate tribute to a holocaust survivor. Similarly, the album's jokey opener, "We Reserve the Right to Refuse Service to You," has something deeper to say about prejudice than its sing-along chorus suggests on a first hearing. Texas in the early '70s wasn't the most hospitable place for freaks or Jews, especially not for freaky Jews, and Friedman parlays his experiences into a more universal message to outcasts of all stripes.
In contrast to firecrackers like "High on Jesus" and "The Ballad of Charles Whitman," Friedman wrote more subtle songs such as the title track's story of a closing musical frontier and a faded singing cowboy. What's particularly impressive is that the writing isn't either-or, but instead a mesh of the sacred, profane, understanding and acidic, with incisiveness always lurking beneath the surface. Chuck Glaser's mostly acoustic production provides the perfect low-key background, allowing the lyrics' wit to unfold without musical histrionics.
Friedman would never make an album as solid as this, venturing to Los Angeles for a mis-produced follow-up in '74, and minting a looser Rolling Thunder styled LP in '76 before taking a hiatus from recording. Neither of the follow-up releases approached the confluence of this initial burst of creativity and mid-70s country-on-the-margins sound. Unfortunately, the combination of political viewpoint and country music didn't satisfy either big city intellectuals or mainstream country fans, and the album flopped commercially.
Vanguard's 30th anniversary CD reissue augments the original album with a pair of bonus tracks ("Nashville Casualty and Life" and "Tramp on the Street") that date from the original sessions, and a four-part video interview with Friedman that was conducted in 2003. This is a great package of a seminal album whose influence has far outstripped its original sales. [©2006 hyperbolium dot com]
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