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Austin Lounge Lizards (The Kennedy Center)

Austin Lounge Lizards

The Austin Lounge Lizards have delighted audiences from Texas to California to New York with their inventive style of ôsatirical bluegrass,ö which they have perfected since forming as a band in 1980. The group often draws comparisons to such diverse performers as Tom Lehrer, Riders In The Sky and Frank Zappa, and they themselves count among their influences Zappa, George Jones, Flatt & Scruggs and Steve Goodman. Trademarks of a Lizard song are highly literate, sharply pointed lyrics that poke fun at politics, love, religion, and culture in general. The Lizard musical style features precise four- and five-part vocal harmonies, and the instrumental mastery of Conrad Deisler on acoustic lead guitar, Hank Card on acoustic guitar, Tom Pittman on banjo and pedal steel guitar, Boo Resnick on bass, and Lex Browning on mandolin and fiddle. The group grew out of the songwriting relationship between Card and Deisler, who met while both were history majors at Princeton University and started writing songs together in 1976.

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Austin Lounge Lizards 9/1/00: Austin Lounge Lizards

The hilarious Austin Lounge Lizards mix expert musicianship with zany lyrics, poking fun at everything from country music to politics.

Austin Lounge Lizards

The hilarious Austin Lounge Lizards mix expert musicianship with zany lyrics, poking fun at everything from country music to politics.

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