Artist:     Kinky Friedman

Album:     Resurrection

Label:     Echo Hill Records

Release Date:     10.25.19

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Who said they ain’t making kinksters like Kinky anymore?  That’s OK, because we still have him and on Resurrection, he will make you real glad we still do. He hits the ground running with “Mandela’s Blues” that has an incredible ear-catching riff running through it to accompany a salute to Nelson Mandela. Not letting up, the beat goes on with title track and a little help from Willie Nelson.  It’s followed by a grand slam with “Greater Cincinnati” that’s just flat-out great in story, music and feel. 

A whole lot of music is made with just Kinky and four other cats, all great ones, I might add. Bill Payne, keys; Lincoln Schleifer, bass; Dennis McDermott, drums; and producer/arranger Larry Campbell on whole lots of stuff.

Even when the cry-in-your-beer tunes appear, they are pure craft beer songs, that will evoke memories of the glory days of many legendary Music Row songwriters of a time past. Perhaps none stronger than on “Me & Billy Swan” that revisits the time, the names and the goings on at Tompall Glaser’s legendary Nashville studio, contrasting it to what’s going on today.

—Ken Spooner