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Austin Lounge Lizards | |
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 The Austin Lounge Lizards at the 2013 Texas Book Festival. | |
| Background information | |
| Genres | Progressive bluegrass,[1] Satire,[2][3] |
| Years active | 1980 – present |
| Labels | Watermelon, Sugar Hill, Flying Fish |
| Members | Hank Card, Conrad Deisler, Tim Wilson, Kirk Williams |
| Past members | Tom Pittman, Richard Bowden, Darcie Deaville, Bruce Jones, Boo Resnick, Paul Sweeney, Mike Stevens, Todd Jagger, Clem Rowand, Korey Simeone, Eamon McLoughlin, Lex Browning, Tom Ellis, Julieann Banks |
| Website | austinlizards |
The Austin Lounge Lizards are a musical group from Austin, Texas, formed in 1980. The band includes founding members Hank Card and Conrad Deisler, along with Tim Wilson and Kirk Williams. The third founding member, Tom Pittman, retired from the band in the spring of 2011.
The band started out experimenting with folk, but was still heavily country in its style, combining the bluegrass form with which Pittman was familiar with the progressive-themed folk rock to which Card and Deisler had been accustomed. Between the members, a large number of different instruments have been played, including a rich variety of string instruments such as the banjo, mandolin, and fiddle.
The band got its name because, Deisler explained, "I think it was a slang term I'd heard my grandmother use to describe gentlemen of easy virtue who hung around in bars. When we started out, that's just what we were doing—hanging out and playing for beer and tips and stuff like that."[1] The Austin Lounge Lizards began by playing covers, but eventually they wanted to move towards trying to write their own songs.
- ^ a b Bogdanov, Vladimir; Woodstra, Chris; Erlewine, Stephen Thomas (2001). All Music Guide: The Definitive Guide to Popular Music. Backbeat Books/All Media Guide. p. 701. ISBN 9780879306274.
- ^ Jones, Loyal (2008). Country Music Humorists and Comedians. University of Illinois Press. pp. 68–70. ISBN 9780252033698.
- ^ Erlewine, Michael (1997). All Music Guide to Country: The Experts' Guide to the Best Recordings in Country Music. Miller Freeman. pp. 18–19. ISBN 9780879304751.