Small Minds
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| Small Minds | ||||
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| Released | 1995 | |||
| Genre | Bluegrass, Newgrass, satire | |||
| Length | 40:27 | |||
| Label | Watermelon[1] | |||
| Producer | Conrad Deisler | |||
| Austin Lounge Lizards chronology | ||||
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [2] |
| The Austin Chronicle |  [3] |
| The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [4] |
Small Minds is a studio album by Austin-based bluegrass band Austin Lounge Lizards.[1][5][6] It continues the Lizards' tradition of social and political satire.
The Austin Chronicle called the opening track a "drunk, horn-seasoned version of Emily Kaitz's Kerrville fave 'Shallow End of the Gene Pool.'"[3]
AllMusic called Small Minds "a finely played and sung album that's a pleasure to listen to and gets a definite recommendation."[2] "Gingrich the Newt" postulates politician Newt Gingrich has given "the humble newt species a bad name) to the intelligentsia of the art world."[2] The song begins: "We'd like to set the record straight by singing of the newt." It then implies Gingrich has none of these values. Instead, "Gingrich the Newt is puffed up like a toad / So full of himself that he's bound to explode."[7]
