Search - Kinky Friedman :: Sold American: 30th Anniversary Edition

Thank You!! You're Welcome!!

Kevan James | 09/23/2003

(5 out of 5 stars)

"A welcome return to an old favourite. Nice to see this great album back on the racks and sounding so good. Add to the newly remastered sound two bonus tracks (the original versions of old favourites, "Nashville Casualty and Life" and "Tramp on the Street") and a very well presented enhanced PC featurette, and you've got a real winner. Congratulations Vanguard for a nice re-issue, and thanks Kinky for the great music (you're welcome!!)."

A classic...

Edmund Dantes | D'If USA | 11/01/2004

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Kinky is better known for "novelty" type tunes like 'Get Your Biscuits in the Oven and Your Buns in the Bed"'; his more poignant work is often overlooked and that is unfortunate because those songs (most noteably "Ride 'em Jewboy") illustrate what a talented songwriter the man is. This album remains my favorite and it deserves to be distributed more widely than it has. "Sold American" is better than anything the plastic cowboys (like Garth Brooks) have ever put out--in my opinion, just about every song on this album is better than any of that dreck Nashville pushes on us today. I defy any of the vapid what-passes-for-country-music pretty boy today to top "Ride 'em Jewboy" or "Nashville Casualty and Life". I challenge them to write something better than "Western Union Wire". They can't.



Get this album first, then get "Kinky Friedman" and "Lasso from El Paso". Finally, get "Pearls in the Snow".



Go. Now."

"They Ain't Makin' Jews Like Jesus Anymore

Shell-Zee | Long Island, NY | 02/10/2005

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Kinky knows the basic difference between Christianity and Judaism is that "Jesus Saves and Moses Invests". So do yourself a big favor and invest a few bucks on this here Kinkster Klassic. Orginally released in '73 on Vangaurd Records, THE bastion of folk music, the likes of Joan Baez and Eric Anderson. But let us not forget that the same Vangard Records brought us irreverent delight in Country Joe & the Fish's ode to LBJ "Super Bird". And remember the late great Richard Farina? He was also a Vangaurd recording artist. His "House On Un-American Activity Blues" was about as subversive as it got during LBJ's tenure in the White House.



Then there was Kinky and his ultra smooth backup unit, "The Texas Jew Boys". Yep, Kinky says "They ain't makin' Jews like Jesus anymore". Come to think of it, they ain't makin' great record albums like Sold American anymore neither. Why Hell!!!!They ain't makin' record albums anymore!!!"