Kinky Friedman
Lone Star Cafe, New York, NY
Early 1980s (exact date unknown - see notes below)

NBC Country Sessions #55
Hosted by Dan Daniel
The promo says it includes guests Tompall Glaser and NBC's Don Imus but I don't hear either of 'em on the show.

Lineage: Original pre-FM vinyl > Audacity > Wav > Flac (L8, align on SBs)

Matrix / Etched on runout groove Side A: NBC-CS-55 A
Matrix / Etched on runout groove Side B: NBC-CS-55 B

01. Country Sessions #55 Promo - Dan Daniel
02. Country Sessions #55 Intro and Interview - Dan Daniel Kinky Friedman
03. Jambalaya
04. Interview - Kinky Friedman
05. Western Union Wire
06. Rollin' In My Sweet Baby's Arms
07. Country Sessions #55 Country Sessions #55 Break - Dan Daniel
07. Country Sessions #55 Country Sessions #55 Break - Dan Daniel
08. Commercial - Dodge Trucks
09. Country Sessions #55 Break - Dan Daniel
10. Interview - Kinky Friedman
11. People Who Read People
12. Fraulein
13. Interview - Kinky Friedman
14. Wheels
15. Country Sessions #55 Break - Dan Daniel
16. Commercial - Ramada Inns
17. Commercial - Duro Depend Adhesive
18. Country Sessions #55 Break - Dan Daniel
19. Interview - Kinky Friedman
20. Twirl
21. Luckenbach, Texas
22. Before All Hell Breaks Loose
23. Country Sessions #55 Break - Dan Daniel
24. Commercial - Dodge Truck Dealers
25. Country Sessions #55 Break - Dan Daniel
26. Interview - Kinky Friedman
27. The Ballad of Charles Whitman
28. Put Another Log On The Fire
29. Okie From Muskogee
30. Country Sessions #55 Break - Dan Daniel
31. Commercial - Ramada Inns
32. Commercial - Xerox 2350 copier
33. Country Sessions #55 Break - Dan Daniel
34. Sold American
35. Are You Sure Hank Done It That Way
36. Cotton Eyed Joe and Country Session #55 Outro

Total time 50:39

http://www.kinkyfriedman.com/

Dave's notes:
Friedman first came along in the early 70's when he was too weird for country radio and too country for rock radio...which was unfortunate for his career. I recall a review that referred to him as "the Frank Zappa of Country Music," which is a poor comparison. While Friedman uses humor in his best known songs, he also can write with a sincerity that is not present in Mr. Zappa's lyrics (and Friedman's music exhibits none of Zappa's technical prowess).

While this includes several of his humorous (and/or controversial) songs, most of it is committed, sincere country and western music (although...does anyone else hear the two-chord vamp of "Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way" as sounding very much like the Velvet Underground's "Heroin?")

There's not a lot of live Friedman circulating, so I'm glad to have won the bid for this LP on Ebay, and to have a chance to share it with you.

Also, of note: Mr. Friedman does his infamous "The Ballad of Charles Whitman," a surprising choice for a national radio broadcast.

Let's see...what else? Oh, a vintage XEROX ad for an early personal photocopier, by Celtics star John Havlicek! Plus announcing by New York City disk jockey, Dan Daniel, "known on the air as Dandy Dan Daniel and Triple-D."

300 dpi scans of the disc labels and cue sheets are included.

Additional notes:
No year is listed on the cue sheet, but it's from the early 1980s.
This show is very different from the one that was used for the official "Live From The Lone Star Cafe" released in 1983. That one is mentioned during the intro as his latest release, hence this show has to be from a later date, and the db.etree entry in the year 1982 has to be wrong.

Many thanks to Dave for all his efforts and providing this file set through his Voodoo Wagon blog.

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