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perform concerts for local groups.
In fact, "Boo" probably got his vocal
talent from his father and from both
sets of grandparents, all of whom sang
in choirs and played the violin or piano.
How does the elder Resnick feel
about "Boo's" choice of music: He
gets the most pleasure from this type
of music; it's something he loves to
do," he says.
"Boo," who got his nickname as a
distortion of "Bob," started playing the
clarinet and the oboe in the third grade
and later played in the high school .
band and orchestra. He switched to the
guitar, then the bass when he attended
the University of Michigan.
"I majored in history, but I really
had no intention of
doing anything with his-
tory as a career," said
Resnick, as the Jewish
News caught up with
him between gigs at his
Austin home.
"I worked in a shoe
store in Ann Arbor for a
while, but music always
was my first love. So, I
hit the road to Austin in
1975 no try to make it
big in the music busi-
ness. Austin is a huge
music town with a real
jumping music scene."
Resnick played with a
folk group, an oldies group and a rock
'n' roll band before joining the Austin
Lounge Lizards in 1995. "Their bass
player had just left for another job,
and they sort of recruited me to take
his place," Resnick recalled. "The
association has really worked out well.
It's great to be a Lizard and I love to
sing the way-out lyrics."
Resnick lives in Austin with his
wife, Gail, and has a day job, as do all
of the other members of the Lizards,
including one who is an administra-
tive law judge.
Resnick works in the county clerk's
office, and travels about 120 days a
year with the Lizards. "All of the guys
are married, some have children, and
we don't like to be on the road too
often," he said. "We don't live on a
tour bus. We mostly do our concerts
on long weekends. ),
The other Lizards are Conrad
Deisler, Hank Card, Richard Bowden
and Tom Pittman, all playing a mix-
ture of guitars, banjos, mandolins and
fiddles, and all performing precise
four-and five-part vocal harmonies.
Deisler and Card created the nucle-
us for the group when they met as his-
tory majors at Princeton University in

Sunday, Nov. 14, 1999 • 4 p.m.

1976 and started writing songs togeth-
er. They ended up at the University of
Texas Law School, hooked up with
Pittman and two other musicians in
1980 and entered the gig circuit.
A big break came when the Lizards
won the Best Band Award at the
Kerrville (Texas) Bluegrass Festival in
1983. Since then, they have run the
entire bluegrass and folk festival cir-
cuit — from Seattle and California,
through Canada and into New York
and Rhode Island. At times, they even
play inside record stores.
"Our audiences are pretty liberal
and to the left of center," said
Resnick, and we like to play two sets
with an intermission so we can

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"Our audiences are
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shmooze with them. If we offend any-
one, we hear about it quickly. After
our 'War Between the States' ditty, a
guy in the crowd who was a descen-
dant of a Civil War veteran came at us
to protest until we calmed him down.
And our cheatin' and drinkin' songs
really hit some people hard."
Resnick is looking forward to per-
forming in front of the hometown
crowd and his relatives, but he's a bit
apprehensive about the reaction of his
uncle, Felix Resnick, second violinist
with the Detroit Symphony and con-
ductor of the Birmingham-Bloomfield
and Grosse Pointe Symphony orchestras.
"There's a big difference between
the symphony and the Austin Lounge
Lizards," mused Resnick, "but [Uncle
Felix] is open-minded about our style.
He's got a great sense of humor."

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