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| Austin Lounge Lizards | Never an Adult Moment |
| Review by Brenda Hough | |
| Songs: Grunge Song Hillbillies in a Haunted House Forty Years Old and I’m Living in My Mom’s Garage Rasputin’s HMO A Hundred Miles of Dry Big Rio Grande River The Illusion Travels By Stock Car Big Ol’ Bone The Me I Used To BE Waitin’ On A Call From Don The Beautiful Waitress Asheville/Crashville |
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Personnel: The Austin Lounge Lizards, obviously from Austin, Texas are sometimes classified as bluegrass or country but their original material often defies classification. More often than not, their bluegrass tinged instrumentation powers songs that mock musical styles, religion, politicians, hillbillies and in this latest CD, stock car drivers and HMOs. The album opens with a slow, soft ballad that dissolves into a loud grunge sound with pounding guitars. The fun continues with “Hillbillies in a Haunted House,” a bouncing song with fiddle, piano and banjo retelling the story of 80 hillbillies disappearing in a haunted house until only 2 are left. “Rasputin’s HMO” uses a tune similar to “Ghost Riders In The Sky” to tell the tale of the corn dodger poisoned Rasputin as he seeks medical help in the tangle of a hospital managed care system. “Waiting On A Call From Don” should draw smiles of recognition from anyone who has had to wait for a car to be diagnosed and repaired. More tangled lives are documented in “The Me I Used To Be” and “Forty Years Old and I’m Livin’ In My Mom’s Garage.” The Lizards add some Texas teasing songs with “A Hundred Miles of Dry” (no beer joint for miles) and an accordian-tinged “Big Rio Grande River” with a bandit galloping into the sunset. It’s all great fun with puns, word plays and intertwining plots and vocal harmonies. No dull moments, indeed! |
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