Pinkard & Bowden

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Sandy Pinkard and Richard Bowden are an American Country Music comedy duo (in the vein of Homer and Jethro), famous mostly for their parodies of popular country songs, some cowritten with Tim Wilson.

Among their recordings are "Libyan on a Jet Plane" (from John Denver's "Leavin' on a Jet Plane"), "Drivin' My Wife Away" (from Eddie Rabbitt's "Drivin' My Life Away"), and "Music Industry" (from "Islands in the Stream", recorded by Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton). Their original songs include "Don't Pet the Dog", "Trailer Park Woman", "Elvis Was a Narc", and "The Ballad of Dick and Jane".

Their live recordings also include "Jimi and Eddie" (featuring the lyrics to Green Acres, which starred Eddie Albert, set to the tune of Jimi Hendrix's "Purple Haze"), and "The Fifties Suck", throwing water on 1950s nostalgia with some of the ugly truths of that decade (including American paranoia over nuclear war, gas-guzzling automobiles, and the abundance of kitschy science fiction movies).