That's who I was going to say...
He kicks ass because, even though he was living in the rather homophobic early 30's in rural America, he was not afraid to proclaim that
"I'm a bad mother fucker, don' ya know; I'll crawl over 50 good pussies just to get to one fat boy's asshole."
If that's not a bad ass, I don't know what is.


Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Murder Ballads
That album has lots of great characters. Not very admirable, but great.
I'm also partial to Crow Jane.

Oh who can forget the woman guaranteed to make you a man--'Lola'.

Lydia the tatooed lady
 

Alowishus Devadander Abercrombie (that's long for "Mud")