This was also true of Friedman’s last two records, but the contemplation of loss and mortality cuts closer to the bone on ...

Yet the Kinkster had a tender side, too. Poet of Motel 6, his evocative posthumous album, finds Friedman confronting death ...

The late singer-songwriter / novelist / Texas gubernatorial candidate Kinky Friedman was a complicated man, an individual ...

He was 79. But before he became too sick to work, Friedman prepared an encore — a final album titled “Poet of Motel 6.” OBIT: ...