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FOR ALMOST THIRTY years Austin City Limits and I have interacted much in the same manner of Joseph Heller's fabled covenant with God: We've left each other alone. There's a reason for this. In all its storied, glorified history as the longest-running music show on television, ACL has taped only one performance that it has steadfastly refused to air: mine. I'm not bitter about this (though I am bitter about almost everything else). Indeed, I take a somewhat perverse pride in the fact that, way back in 1976, Kinky Friedman and the Texas Jewboys were considered too risky, too controversial, and very possibly, too downright repellent for public television. For years my performance could be seen only at the Jim Morrison Museum, in Waco, but now that Janet Jackson has bared herself to the world, it's time for me to make a clean breast of things as well. [paragraph] For a while after the show didn't air, I was in...
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