Small Minds
# Small Minds

Professional ratings :

| Review scores ||
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic | |
| The Austin Chronicle | |
| The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | |

Small Minds is a studio album by Austin-based bluegrass band Austin Lounge Lizards. It continues the Lizards' tradition of social and political satire.

## Critical reception

The Austin Chronicle called the opening track a "drunk, horn-seasoned version of Emily Kaitz's Kerrville fave 'Shallow End of the Gene Pool.'"

AllMusic called Small Minds "a finely played and sung album that's a pleasure to listen to and gets a definite recommendation." "Gingrich the Newt" postulates politician Newt Gingrich has given "the humble newt species a bad name) to the intelligentsia of the art world." 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."

## Personnel

* Richard Bowden: fiddle, trumpet, Perot, livestock, violin vocals
* Hank Card: rhythm guitar, vocals
* Conrad Deisler: acoustic and electric guitars, mandolin, Blevins, livestock, vocals
* Tom Pittman: steel guitar, banjo, vocals
* Kirk Williams: bass, livestock, vocals

### Additional Personnel

* Ray Benson: vocals, lead Blevins (on 3)
* John Mills: tenor and baritone saxophone
* Paul Pearcy: drums, percussion, marching snare, bongos
* Boo Resnick: vocals, Blevins (on 3)
