'Too Big To Fail' Video Single From Austin Lounge Lizards Pokes Fun At Sky Boxes, Congressional Pork & Other Corporate Excess

AUSTIN, TX. (Top40 Charts/ McGuckin Entertainment PR) - Folk-rock-bluegrass-country quintet Austin Lounge Lizards, known for its snarky, satirical lyrics that spotlight and perforate, and its awesome instrumental prowess, released today 'Too Big To Fail,' a video single that takes on excesses of the new Gilded Age.

As usual, the Lizards are topical. In this weekend's New York Times, columnist Gretchen Morgenson asked: 'Too Big to Fail, or Too Big to Handle?'

The 'Too Big To Fail' video was produced and directed by award-winning filmmaker Steven Mims (www.stevemimsfilms.com), who was also responsible for capturing for posterity the Lizards' 20th anniversary celebratory DVD, LIZARDS TIMES TWENTY, in 2000.

'Too Big to Fail,' by Lindsey Eck, is from an upcoming album by the Lizards. 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.

About the Lizards www.austinlizards.com
Based in Austin, the Lizards have honed their music into a wicked-funny art form. They've delighted audiences from Texas to Trafalgar Square with their inventive style of satirical folk, rock, country and bluegrass. Trademarks of a Lizards song are highly literate, sharply pointed lyrics that poke fun at politics, love, religion and the culture in general. Combined with superb musicianship that features precise five-part vocal harmonies and instrumental mastery, the band's songs are as melodically infectious as they are lyrically prescient. Album and song titles like 'Shallow End of the Gene Pool,' 'Jesus Loves Me (But He Can't Stand You)' and NEVER AN ADULT MOMENT all point to the Lizards' love of wordplay and topical relevance. The Lizards have been touring nationally since 1987 and are five-time award winners at the prestigious Austin Music Awards.

Conrad Deisler - guitar, mandolin, vocals

Hank Card - guitar, vocals

Tom Pittman - banjo, dobro, vocals

Darcie Deaville - fiddle, mandolin, vocals

Julieann Banks - bass, vocals

Watch 'Too Big To Fail' video at: https://www.austinlizards.com/news.html or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMtZGMHNNb8&feature=channel_page
Catch the Austin Lounge Lizards on tour: https://www.austinlizards.com/calendar.html