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Regarding their name, Austin Lounge Lizards guitarist and founding member Conrad Deisler said: “I think it was a slang term I’d heard my grandmother use to describe gentlemen of easy virtue who hung around in bars
Ava Barber became a professional singer at age ten and joined the cast of the Bonnie Lou and Buster syndicated TV show at age 15 She proved popular and began appearing at local clubs and barn dances, and also released her first single, “Atlanta
Award-winning Australian country artist Adam Brand was born in Perth and reared in Victoria He took up the drums at the age of ten, left home for a life on the road selling leather belts with his uncle at 16, and landed back in Perth a few years later to start a band
A young singer/songwriter with an ancient heart, Adam Carroll is a Texas troubadour who can honestly trace his roots through giants like Butch Hancock, John Prine, and the late great Townes Van Zandt
Songwriter/guitarist/singer Brian DiPlacido (b 1970) is the sole member of A Bullet for Fidel He hails from the tiny city of Erie, Pennsylvania, and discovered music at a young age, being exposed to the likes of Harry Chapin and Johnny Cash from his parents’ eight-track collection
A cousin of the Tobias Brothers (Country Music Hall of Famers) and the granddaughter of film composer Bill Lava, Adie Grey took to the music business while still in junior high, singing in a variety of clubs and coffeehouses
Bandleader and vocalist Adolph Hofner was a durable musical icon of south Texas who helped shape Western swing, and whose dual career as a swing bandleader and Czech dance musician showed the ways in which Western swing had roots in Central European dance traditions
Agnes “Sis” Cunningham and husband Gordon Friesen were the founders of Broadside, the influential music journal that first published many of the most popular and enduring songs of the folk revival era, including seminal contributions from then-fledgling artists Bob Dylan and Phil Ochs