Their 2003 release Strange Noises in the Night attracted the attention of National Public Radio and the Austin Lounge Lizards had a spot on the popular news show Morning Edition.

Funnily enough, they have a large adoring audience and often take their act to Europe to promote new albums such as 2000's Never an Adult Moment.

While in London, the Lizards played live on a 2-hour country music program that is broadcast via satellite to 31 countries, and here's what Steve Taylor said about Employee of the Month in the June, 1998, issue of Country Music International: "If the Austin Lounge Lizards have heard of political correctness they don't acknowledge it, as their song titles may suggest."

The Austin Lounge Lizards have an interesting history.

The group formed in 1980 when two Princeton graduates, Hank Card and Conrad Deisler, moved to Austin to study law at the University of Texas. The pair had been writing songs together since 1976 at Princeton. In Austin, they met Tom Pittman, who played banjo and steel guitar, and who was well qualified for the group, with a degree in Philosophy from the University of Georgia.

As is usual in places where two lawyers and a philosopher gather, a satiric music group was born. In addition to founding members Hank Card, who plays guitar and does many of the lead vocals, Conrad Deisler who also sings and plays guitar, and banjo man Tom Pittman, the other Austin Lounge Lizards are fiddle player Richard Bowden, and bassist Boo Resnick.

The Lizards are repeat winners of Austin Chronicles' prestigious "None of the Above Band" award. They have at least eight albums. You can learn more about them at their own website, where you can meet the sixth member of the band, Al.

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