The Austin Lounge Lizards are a musical group from Austin, Texas, formed in 1980. The band includes founding members Hank Card and Conrad Deisler, along with Tim Wilson and Kirk Williams. The third founding member, Tom Pittman, retired from the band in the spring of 2011.

The band started out experimenting with folk, but was still heavily country in its style, combining the bluegrass form with which Pittman was familiar with the progressive-themed folk rock to which Card and Deisler had been accustomed. Between the members, a large number of different instruments have been played, including a rich variety of string instruments such as the banjo, mandolin, and fiddle.

The band got its name because, Deisler explained, "I think it was a slang term I'd heard my grandmother use to describe gentlemen of easy virtue who hung around in bars. When we started out, that's just what we were doing—hanging out and playing for beer and tips and stuff like that."

Discography

  • Creatures From the Black Saloon (1984)
  • The Highway Cafe of the Damned (1988)
  • Lizard Vision (1991)
  • Paint Me on Velvet (1993)
  • Small Minds (1995)
  • Employee of the Month (1998)
  • Live Bait (1999)
  • Never an Adult Moment (2000)
  • Strange Noises in the Dark (2003)
  • The Drugs I Need (2006)
  • Home and Deranged (2013)

See also

  • Music of Austin
  • Drugs I Need

References

  • Austin Lounge Lizards