Austin Lounge Lizards: News

Welcome our new bass player - Bruce Jones!! - February 7, 2010

As of January 2010, Bruce Jones replaced Julieann Banks playing the bass and singing.

"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!"

‘TOO BIG TO FAIL’ - June 23, 2009

‘TOO BIG TO FAIL’ POKES FUN AT

SKY BOXES, CONGRESSIONAL PORK,

A HOUSE IN THE HAMPTONS

& OTHER CORPORATE EXCESS

Austin Lounge Lizards’ Latest Single Backed by New Video

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.

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.

“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.