B.B. King Blues Club (New York City, NY)
Musician, author, and former Texas gubernatorial candidate Kinky Friedman makes a rare full-scale East Coast concert appearance at B.B. King Blues Club. He's written best-selling books, toured with Bob Dylan, befriended presidents ranging from Bill Clinton to George W. Bush, and led his band Kinky Friedman and The Texas Jewboys for decades. Joining Kinky are original Texas Jewboy, Little Jewford, and long-time Village Irregular, Washington Ratso, doing the show that just got rave reviews in Europe.
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The last date listed for Kinky Friedman was Monday November 16, 2009 / 8:00pm (Doors Open at 6pm). (view all dates)
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B.B. King is a great place to see an act. Good food, drinks and atmosphere. Kinky and his band are talented musicians. It would have been good if they played more. His talking and stories kept us amused, but we needed more music.
Kinky was great. His musicians were too. Liked his reading as well.
Venue was great.
Food mediocre and expensive
Kinky and his group are talented musicians and funny too!! The club is very nice and we were pleased with the food and drinks as well as the ambiance. Everything was delightful.
Conveniently located in the heart of Times Square near Penn Station and Port Authority, The B.B. King Blues Club & Grill offers music fans a unique experience. Owned by the Bensusan Family, proprietors of the world renowned Blue Note Jazz Club, the club features world-class musical talent and consists of two distinct spaces: the Showcase Room & Lucille's Grill.
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Former (and likely future) Texas gubernatorial Kinky Friedman is returning to the east coast, this time bearing his guitar, for a series of exceedingly rare full public performances of the stage show that started him down the winding road to international stardom. Joining Kinky for this series of dates are original Texas Jewboy, Little Jewford, and long-time Village Irregular, Washington Ratso. They'll be doing the show that just blew through Europe with rave reviews and sellouts everywhere.
For those not in the know (and where have you been?!) Kinky Friedman is a Jewish cowboy from Texas. He is renowned in music circles as the unpredictable and entertaining leader of "Kinky Friedman and The Texas Jewboys", and in literary circles as a best-selling author of 28 books (at time of writing). Unlike many authors so wrapped in their books that they live only an internally exciting life, Kinky is a man of drive and action who lives an exciting life and writes it.
He is also known for touring with Bob Dylan in the Rolling Thunder Revue, hiding the fugitive Abbie Hoffman from the FBI and CIA, and acting in B-grade Hollywood movies. He has befriended most of the musical and literary greats over the years as well as Presidents such as Bill Clinton and George W. Bush (Junior). In 2006 he ran for Governor of Texas. He still performs hits like "Sold American", "Ride 'em Jewboy", "Get Your Biscuits in the Oven (And Your Buns in the Bed)", "They Ain't Makin' Jews Like Jesus Anymore" and "(Proud to Be an) Asshole From El Paso" in sell-out concerts around the world.
Journalist John T. Davis states, "To know Kinky Friedman is to quote him. And quote him I have, in order to provide a vista of one outrageous life. But my aim in writing his story was to break through Kinky’s quotes to find the real man, the Richard Friedman in the Kinky Friedman. I was in search of everything Kinky."
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