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"'Droll, literate goofiness'--Stereophile"
Bluegrass meets Tom Lehrer-style satire in the music of the Austin Lounge Lizards, the band whose style the Washington Post described as "country and crabgrass." Now in their third decade of skewering social trends, trashing Texas culture as only Texans can, and puncturing the politics of the powerful, the Lizards blend top-tier musicianship with songs ranging from a romantic ballad of "the placid acid rain," to a dour impersonation of what might happen if Leonard Cohen got a day job as an auto mechanic, to the sheer silliness of "Flatnose, the Tree-Climbing Dog." There's the occasional cover (that was the Lizards singing "C-U-B-A" in "Sicko"). And who else could write a song ("The Illusion Travels by Stock Car") about a hypothetical collaboration between avant-garde filmmaker Luis Buñuel and NASCAR hero Richard Petty? The Lizards return to town with a sharply political new album, "The Drugs I Need."
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