ZZZwalk - Ridin' Cross The Desert On A Horse With No Legs (CA)

ZZZWALK PLAYS KINKY A few words from Ratso… As always, Richard “Kinky” “Big Dick” Friedman was way ahead of his time. One of the premiere singer-songwriters in the ‘70s Outlaw Country movement, Kinky was too hip for the country market and too country for the hip intelligentsia on the left and right coasts. His songs were gems, some were incredibly funny, i.e. Get Your Biscuits in the Oven and Your Buns in the Bed, a sendup of the first wave feminist movement, and We Reserve the Right to Refuse Service to You, a wry rumination on being rebuffed by right wing anti-Semites, uptight Jewish rabbis and, at the same time, an anti-Vietnam war polemic. But some of his songs displayed a poetic sensibility that rivaled his contemporaries Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen. Few people were writing songs like Kinky. But after a four albums that received critical acclaim and very little airplay and consequent sales, Kinky retired from the musical arena and began writing mystery novels where Kinky, a countr