As Coyle points out, guitar-driven music is enjoying a resurgence, particularly of the instrumental/shred variety. "I feel like this environment, especially for high-level, virtuosic instrumental type ...

Guitar virtuoso Marty Friedman doesn’t practice. You might think, “Well, it must be second nature after forty-plus years of playing.” But the self-taught musician says he’s never sat down and ran ...

Friedman says he's flourished in his time away from the group ...

In a state of over-sized characters, one of its largest has died. Kinky Friedman — entertainer, rancher, gubernatorial candidate and dog lover — died Thursday at his ranch outside Medina. He was 79. A ...

Kinky Friedman was a Texas singer/songwriter, author, satirist, and columnist. He combined his sharp wit and social commentary to write songs that were humorous while shining an unflinching light on ...

Megadeth will welcome back a long-estranged figure from their past at their upcoming, first-ever gig at Tokyo’s famed Budokan: Marty Friedman. The guitarist played on some of the band’s best-selling ...

Kinky Friedman — an oversized persona who left Illinois and flourished in Texas as a singer-songwriter, novelist, humorist, dog rescuer and gubernatorial candidate — has been, to use his own phrase, ...

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Kinky Friedman appeared on "The Late Show with David Letterman" in New York on Oct. 30, 2006, the same year the novelist, satirist, philosopher and musician snagged 12% of the vote in the Texas ...