tag:austinloungelizards.com,2005:/blogs/newsNews2022-04-08T07:51:29-05:00Austin Lounge Lizardsfalsetag:austinloungelizards.com,2005:Post/61228112013-05-06T19:00:00-05:002021-07-06T16:33:36-05:00"Home and Deranged"
<p>The Austin Lounge Lizards’ new release, <strong><em>Home & Deranged</em></strong> – their first studio album in seven years – shows their wit is as irreverently edgy and fun-pokingly ready as ever.</p>
<p>The Lizards are never more enjoyable than when deflating overblown egos with their laughable lampoons, and <em>Home & Deranged</em> provides plenty of send-ups of the self-centric. The album’s opening song from Conrad and Hank, <em>Enough About Me</em>, is a tongue-in-cheek takedown of the band’s music-industry counterparts who wholly embrace their own hype. <em>Too Big to Fail</em>, penned by fellow Central Texas songwriter Lindsay Eck, details one man’s quest to join the gilded ranks of corporate Goliaths apparently above the law. The covetous narrator implores, “If I could lie like those guys in New York, or had a buddy in Congress to send me some pork, I’d be in a skybox popping a cork right now.” And Hank’s <em>My Bonnie Johnson</em> is a Celtic sailor’s rousing salute – and daring double-entendre – to his beautiful beloved, with whom he shares a not-so-long-distance love affair.<br><br>Hank and Darcie deliver a sweetly provocative duet in <em>Thank You for Touching Me There</em>, a reserved shout-out to courteously cautious new lovers everywhere, as well as to the Transportation Security Administration’s team of airport screeners. At the other end of the subtlety spectrum is <em>Black Helicopters</em>, the grunge-rock ramblings of an over-the-edge government-conspiracy theorist as he plummets to the depths of his paranoia in this dark-humored ditty.<br><br>No Lizard album is complete without a sidetrip into surrealism – sometimes labyrinthine, but always amusing. This time, the venture takes listeners into the caves of Bustamante, Mexico, <em>Spelunking with Joe King Carrasco</em>. This corrido-style narrative ballad, with its wildly varied cast of characters – from Frida Kahlo to Pikachu, all in search of a wayward Frisbee® – is like a Lizards’ Sgt. Pepper’s, made all their own with a Nuevo Wavo flavor, rotating shared lead vocals and a cameo from the King of Tex-Mex Rock ‘n’ Roll himself.<br><br>Darcie charts new territory for the Lizards with a couple of funny and feminine takes on romance. A cover of Emily Kaitz’s <em>If I Saw You All the Time</em> offers the upside to the brevity and infrequency of long-distance love, while Darcie’s own <em>Who Needs You?</em> gives one woman’s you-can’t-fire-me-I-quit-type response to a rover’s rejection.<br><br>Bruce contributes a trio of self-penned songs, as well. <em>I Lied</em> relates a groom-gone-wrong’s not quite contrite confession, while <em>Dumb Dumb Dumb</em> serves as a wit-worthy sequel to the Lizards’ popular earlier recording of <em>Life is Hard, But Life is Hardest When You’re Dumb</em>. The album’s finale, <em>Would You Like to Start a Band?</em>, concisely outlines the lifecycle – from “happy family” to “artistic differences” to remembrances of the “glory days” – of a band made of suitably peculiar musical misfits. Sounds familiar … .<br><br>Featuring session musician Jon Hahn on drums and an ephemeral appearance by Lizard Emeritus Tom Pittman (as himself), Home & Deranged is a tribute to the Lizards’ enduring enthusiasm for cleverly crafted wordplay, social commentary, masterful musicianship and love of laughter. It is the Austin Lounge Lizards’ eleventh album, and their third on the Houston-based Blue Corn label.</p>
Austin Lounge Lizardstag:austinloungelizards.com,2005:Post/61228102011-02-13T18:00:00-06:002021-07-19T03:14:23-05:00The Tom Pittman Farewell Tour
<p>Tom Pittman, a founding member and intrepid banjoist, dobroist, and raconteur, is leaving the Lizards after 31 years. Our Tom Pittman Farewell Tour will take us to some our favorite Texas venues as well as northern California and the East Coast. Please check our calendar section for details.</p>
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<h1 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color:#008000">The Austin Lounge Lizards</span></h1>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color:#008000"><span style="font-weight:normal">Leaner.</span> Greener. <span style="font-weight:normal">Shorter</span>.</span></p>
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Austin Lounge Lizardstag:austinloungelizards.com,2005:Post/61228092010-06-05T19:00:00-05:002022-04-08T07:51:29-05:00The Austin Lounge Lizards New Release! #30 Years of Lost Luggage" DVD
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<p>“30 Years of <span id="lw_1275887248_0" class="yshortcuts" style="cursor:pointer; background-image:initial; background-repeat:initial; background-attachment:initial; -webkit-background-clip:initial; -webkit-background-origin:initial; background-color:transparent; border-bottom-style:none; border-bottom-width:initial; border-bottom-color:initial; background-position:initial initial">Lost Luggage</span>” is our new concert DVD filmed live this past February at our <span id="lw_1275887248_1" class="yshortcuts">30th anniversary celebration</span> before a sold-out crowd at Austin's Texas Union Theater. Presented in “mock-umentary” format by filmmaker Steve Mims, it consists of performance footage edited from seven cameras, introductions and Lizard interviews by Austin’s legendary DJ Larry Monroe, and impetuous musical contributions from former Lizards. The concert was produced by our long-time friends at the Cactus Cafe.<br><br>The audio portion rings astonishingly true, considering that the actual gig was recorded on multiple tracks and mixed in the studio afterwards.<br><br><br></p>
Austin Lounge Lizardstag:austinloungelizards.com,2005:Post/61228052010-02-06T18:00:00-06:002021-08-20T09:56:33-05:00Welcome our new bass player - Bruce Jones!!
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<h1 style="text-align: center;">As of January 2010, Bruce Jones replaced Julieann Banks playing the bass and singing. </h1>
<p style="text-align: justify;">"How did I get here? I feel like I just won the lottery. I'm still trying to figure out how I wound up being drafted to play bass with the fabulous, famous and fearless Austin Lounge Lizards, a band I've been in awe of since the first time I heard "Old Blevins" rolling out of the speakers of my 1969 VW bug. I mean, this band is the Rolling Stones of the satirical bluegrass music world! How many bands ever make it to their THIRTIETH anniversary with a majority of their original members still on board? And when you listen to their entire catalogue it's incredible to realize that this band has provided a consistently gut-busting funny commentary on just about everything that's happened in America since Jimmy Carter was president! If anybody over at UT with a quintuple major in music, sociology, psychology, history and political science needs a topic for a doctoral thesis, this band is it!" </p>
Austin Lounge Lizardstag:austinloungelizards.com,2005:Post/61228082009-06-22T19:00:00-05:002021-06-26T20:11:20-05:00‘TOO BIG TO FAIL’
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<h3 style="text-align: center;">‘TOO BIG TO FAIL’ POKES FUN AT SKY BOXES, CONGRESSIONAL PORK, </h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">A HOUSE IN THE HAMPTONS & OTHER CORPORATE EXCESS</h3>
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<h1 style="text-align: center;">Austin Lounge Lizards’ Latest Single Backed by New Video</h1>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Folk-rock-bluegrass-country quintet Austin Lounge Lizards (www.austinlizards.com), known for its snarky, satirical lyrics that spotlight and perforate and its awesome instrumental prowess, will release on June 23 a video single, “Too Big to Fail,” that takes on excesses of the new Gilded Age.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">The video was produced and directed by award-winning filmmaker Steven Mims (www.stevenmimsfilms.com), who was also responsible for capturing for posterity in 2000 the Lizards’ 20th anniversary celebratory DVD, LIZARDS TIMES TWENTY.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">“Too Big to Fail,” by Lindsey Eck, is from an album being worked on by the Lizards, whose all-boy band has been joined by two equally witty women. The group’s version of Irving Berlin’s “(I’ll See You in) C-U-B-A,” the Prohibition-era up-tempo tribute to the luxuries of the island nation from its 1991 live album, LIZARD VISION, was featured in Michael Moore’s 2007 “Sicko,” as a flotilla of ailing 9-11 workers seeks medical treatment in Cuba.</p>
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Austin Lounge Lizardstag:austinloungelizards.com,2005:Post/61228072009-06-21T19:00:00-05:002021-07-22T03:46:43-05:00Austin Lounge Lizards Compared to the Beatles and the Simpsons!
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Austin Lounge Lizardstag:austinloungelizards.com,2005:Post/61228062009-04-29T19:00:00-05:002022-03-17T16:53:57-05:00Austin360.com
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