I’m cheating a bit with the song titles this week, but I think you’ll forgive me. First, an 80s classic from Timbuk 3:
I’m not even sure where I got the three Timbuk 3 songs that I have that aren’t the one everyone knows, but I love playing a song by a “one hit wonder” and finding out that they had way more than one song in them. And Lord knows, I love me a video from the 80s. It’s not just the hair and the clothes, it’s the sensibility of it.
Why this week’s entry is a cheat: This song is called “Life Is Hard, But Life Is Hardest When You’re Dumb”, and it is of course by the Austin Lounge Lizards:
That’s a more recent performance, for those of you wondering when the Lizards added a couple of women to the lineup. Tom Pittman, the banjo player and lead singer on this tune, left the band a couple of years ago, and I can’t quite picture them without him. But life goes on, no matter how hard it is.