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Larry McMurtry once noted, “Being a writer and a Texan is an amusing fate, one that gets funnier as one’s sense of humor darkens. In times like these, it borders on the macabre.”
McMurtry wrote those words in the late Sixties, but he could have been speaking for the Austin Lounge Lizards four decades later. Since the group’s founding in 1980, a shifting ensemble of Lizards has enjoyed what the military folks call a “target-rich environment.” Fools, pompous fatheads, hypocrites and self-important blowhards have never been in short supply in the Lone Star State and, armed with sprightly bluegrass melodies and a rapier-sharp lyrical sting, the band has enjoyed a virtual shooting gallery of satirical opportunities.
And in an era in which the latest Ponzi scheme, the Balloon Boy, Glenn Beck and various villains from Detroit to Wall Street to Washington, D.C., all compete for space in the 24-hour news cycle, the national pickings are better than ever.
The Lizards’ latest single, the Lindsay Eck-penned “Too Big To Fail” (available as an iTunes download), speaks in black-humored fashion of the cynical excesses of the new Gilded Age:
Austin Lounge Lizards - Satirical folk music with five part harmony and hot pickin'
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