Austin Lounge Lizards
- 风格
- #前卫蓝草 #当代乡村 #蓝草
- 地区
- 欧美
艺人介绍
by Zac JohnsonRegarding their name, Austin Lounge Lizards guitarist and founding member Conrad Deisler said: I think it was a slang term Id heard my grandmother use to describe gentlemen of easy virtue who hung around in bars. When we started out, thats just what we were doing — hanging out and playing for beer and tips and stuff like that. The Lounge Lizards trace their origins back to the late 70s, when Deisler, then a Princeton student, hooked up with Hank Card to indulge their shared interest in folk and country by playing in progressive folk bands. The two landed in Austin in 1980, where they met Tom Pittman, a banjo and pedal-steel player whod just moved to town from Georgia. They combined the sounds of Pittmans bluegrass heritage with the folk and country forms from Deisler and Cards college-band days up north. Unsatisfied with playing bluegrass and traditional country covers, the Lizards found they had a knack for writing bizarro social and politically themed songs, overflowing with tongue-in-cheek twang.The band has gone through its share of mandolin players, bassists, and fiddlers, but the core of the group has remained Pittman, Deisler, and Card, with long stints from bassist Boo Resnick, drummer Paul Pearcy, and multi-instrumentalist Richard Bowden. Whatever its lineup, the Austin Lounge Lizards have long been known for their Texas-sized twisted tales and humorous songs, charming their fans for over twenty years. In their own words, Our accents are the drawliest, our howdies are the yalliest/Our Lone Star flags the waviest, our fried steaks the cream graviest.The groups first album, Creatures From the Black Saloon, was released in 1984, and was followed by 1988s The Highway Cafe of the Damned, 1991s live album Lizard Vision, 1993s Paint Me on Velvet, 1995s Small Minds, and 1998s Employee of the Month. Never an Adult Moment was issued in late summer 2000. They continued in 2003 with Strange Noises in the Dark and followed it with Lizards Times Twenty: Live at Antones, a DVD officially commemorating the Lizards 20th anniversary, in 2004. Drugs I Need arrived in 2006.
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