Sold American
by Kinky Friedman
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Sold American is ranked as the best album by Kinky Friedman.
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Sold American track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 75 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Sold American rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 6 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  MadhattanJack | Top 45 Music Albums of 1974 | 44/45 | 0 |
| 2026 | henrygreen0203 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1970s | 72/100 | 6 |
| 2024 | BorderFreeAndrew | 60 Best Obscure Singer-Songwriter Albums from the 70's | 33/60 | - |
| 2024 | Steppenwolf666 | 1974 5TH 100 | 58/99 | - |
| 2024 | henrygreen0203 | Top 27 Music Albums of 1974 | 13/27 | 3 |
| 2021 | henrygreen0203 | Texas Troubadours - 100 Singer-Songwriter Albums | 16/100 | - |
| 2021 | henrygreen0203 | Decades of Texas Singer-Songwriters | 93/100 | - |
| 2019 | henrygreen0203 | 100 Male Texas Singer-Songwriters | 21/100 | - |
| 2019 | henrygreen0203 | Texas 50/50 Songwriters | 14/99 | - |
| 2019 |  briggs54 | Country 1-100 | 35/100 | - |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 18 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 17 | |||
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Sold American ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 02/28/2024 08:02 | TonySayers61 | 25,774 | 64/100 |
| ! | 04/23/2023 06:11 | MadhattanJack | 6,024 | 66/100 |
| ! | 09/03/2022 13:14 | Steppenwolf666 | 10,024 | 89/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 72.6/100, a mean average of 73.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 73.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.5.
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Decurso 11/05/2016 13:33 in Country music suggestionsSold American comments
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Kinky Friedman may be one of the most offensive, but necessary artists that I enjoy. His debut "Sold American" is a mini-masterpiece. Nowhere else would you hear a country album that calls out discrimination based on religion but also picks on feminism. Many songs here were part of an early Austin City Limits episode that never aired because of the content. You could sun up Kinky Friedman as the Mel Brooks of Texas singer-songwriters. Friedman is one of the most obscure of the Texas singer-songwriters, among his contemporaries Terry Allen and Butch Hancock.
Included is the career highlight, "Ride 'Em Jewboy, a tribute to the six million lives lost in the WWII Holocaust.
Career Highlight: Ride 'Em Jewboy
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