ALMANAC WEEKLY
A miscellany of Hudson Valley art, adventure and ideas | Calendar Ca l e n da r & C Classifieds l a ssifieds | Issue 15 | Apr . 13 – 20 TALK
MOVIE
KIDS ALMANAC
BOOKS
Neil Gaiman presents at Bard
Who Is Dayani Cristal? at Rosendale
National Park Week
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Stephen Tobolowsky at Woodstock Book Fest 8
They ain’t making ’em like
Kinky anymore Kinky Friedman too play Bearsville Theater
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obody could invent vent a character quite like Kinky Friedgie-waving, man, the stogie-waving, g self-problack-hat-wearing claimed Texas Jewboy singer, storyteller, er, sometequila purveyor, animal rescuer, ull-time time political candidate and full-time iconoclast. The Kinkster will make it to Woodstock at 8:30 p.m. Thursday, day, April 20, at the Bearsvillee Theater for a show as part of his “Resurrected Tour” — a thirty-five-city jaunt which begins in mid-April and will continue through the middle of May without a day off. “I think Willie (Nelson) is right,” says Friedman. “You don’t take a day off. If you takee a day off the next show is going ng to suck. [So] you are running ng on ear Lenny pure adrenalin, and you’ll hear Bruce, Hank Williams, Jesus and Johnny Appleseed all talking to you at once. It will be a very pure and raw performance and it will get et better and better as you go — if I can make it without out them rolling me in nd working on three on a gurney doing 35 shows and books. It’s like Willie says, ‘it’s a tonic to play for live audiences and to go to the next xt big town without slashing your wrists.’” The man who penned such classic assic songs as “They Ain’t Makin’ Jews Like Jesus Anymore,” nymore,” and “Get Your Biscuits in The Oven and Your Buns in The Bed” will be featuring new songss from what he calls his Matlock Collection, remembering bering the TV show starring Andy Griffith as a cantankerous ankerous attorney that ran from 1986 to 1995. “Half alf of the songs will be from the Matlock Collection, brand new, in fact never heard and never played on n a tour of America yet.” He tells the story of the name. ame. “One night last year, Willie called me about three in the morning and he says ays ‘what are you tlock and he said doing?’ I say I’m watching Matlock ‘turn that off. That’s a sure sign gn of depression.’ Willie’s kind of my shrink so I listen sten to him pretty Continued tinued on page 7