He founded King Arthur & the Carrots and then Kinky Friedman and the Texas Jewboys as a result of his love of music. “Country band with a social conscience, a demented love child of Lenny Bruce and Bob Wills,”
Was how he characterized the latter. “Somewhere in heaven, I’m sure there’s a quiet corner with a big easy chair, a bright floor lamp,
A big stack of biographical books, and a few old dogs wagging their tails to the faint smell of cigar smoke,” Friedman once wrote, reflecting on his life.
