Mueller Lake Park Outdoor Amphitheater
What About Austin Lounge Lizards?
RECEIVED Mon., Dec. 1, 2003
Dear Austin Chronicle:
How could you possibly do a collection of Texas songs without the Austin Lounge Lizards ["The Top Texas 40," Nov. 28]? As I read your city/town songs, I expected to see "Going Back to Dallas, Texas (To See if Anything Could Be Worse Than Losing You)." They also created such curiosities as "Irving" and "Stupid Texas Song," which holds the honor of being a deliciously blatant rip-off of Benson's "Miles and Miles of Texas," and it is also a song I first recall hearing in Ohio, giving me immense pride in my adopted homeland (as they say on the bumper sticker, "I got here as fast as I could").
Anyway, I was compelled to chime in on this topic but I guess y'all won't be compelled to print this tome from someone who calls "Pancho & Lefty," "That song with Cleveland in its lyrics."
How could you possibly do a collection of Texas songs without the Austin Lounge Lizards ["The Top Texas 40," Nov. 28]? As I read your city/town songs, I expected to see "Going Back to Dallas, Texas (To See if Anything Could Be Worse Than Losing You)." They also created such curiosities as "Irving" and "Stupid Texas Song," which holds the honor of being a deliciously blatant rip-off of Benson's "Miles and Miles of Texas," and it is also a song I first recall hearing in Ohio, giving me immense pride in my adopted homeland (as they say on the bumper sticker, "I got here as fast as I could").
Anyway, I was compelled to chime in on this topic but I guess y'all won't be compelled to print this tome from someone who calls "Pancho & Lefty," "That song with Cleveland in its lyrics."
Love,
Joyce Tianello Snodgrass
Joyce Tianello Snodgrass
