Rob Freeman - Guitars/Vocals. Paul Walter - Bass/Keys.
Keith Crawley - Guitars. Kevin Fitz - Drums/Guitars/Vocals.

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Stranger Lazy started as Dirty Frank in 1996 in Greenwood, IN. Keith on guitar, Rob on vocals and guitar, Mike Cooper on bass, and Kevin Fitzpatrick on drums. After a good stint in the Indianapolis high school local-music circuit, an album called "Live Not on Evil" (1998), and a helluva lot of demo tapes later, they disbanded to pursue higher education in 1999. Rob and Keith went to IU in Bloomington, Kevin stayed in Indy to go to IUPUI. Keith and Kevin continued to keep the music going through the next two years, jamming out whenever there was a break in college.

In 2001, they asked Rob to play guitar with them and start the band again. Rob had a collection of songs already made from his solo records, Keith and Kevin had some song ideas they had worked on. They practiced in Rob's bedroom in Bloomington, IN. Rob knew of a local producer named Russ Castillo, who would go on to help record their very first album. The attempt at a studio recording session was a highlight to the band at the time, but in hind sight.. the songs were mediocre.. the recording was below average, and it was just a lost project. Nonetheless, "The Driveway Fix" (2002) was the first official album.

2002 marked the beginning of Stranger Lazy in Greenwood, IN. Paul Jansen was brought on as bass guitarist, and the four started to craft new songs which would go on to become their first official (released) album, "Elf Racket" (2002). Their recording space, One-Mic Studios, was home to the next batch of recordings, including "War Not Bombs" (2003) and "When You're Small Everything is Tall" (2004).

In late 2004 Stranger Lazy got another studio experience, this time at Queen-Size Studios with Tony Whitlock. They had pulled songs from their previous albums, as well as a handful of new material and went to work, creating and recording an album. The end result wasn't the sound they were going for, so they abandoned what would never be, "CIA Spook" (2004). Huge thank you to Tony for his hard work during that.

2005 marked a defining move of the practice space from Greenwood to Bloomington, where the next chapter in the Stranger Lazy saga would develop. Taking a different route to recording this time, they recorded "The Cox Sintrific" (2005) track by track, instrument by instrument. They had previously recorded everything live to one-mic, which was fun, but they were looking for a better sound. Hand crafted, stretched, prodded, molded, fandangled, and morphed into a story of the universe, The Cox Sintrific was a strong album, and well received among reviewers and peers. While waiting for The Cox to be pressed and shipped, they were already on their way to another album, "80s Brown" (2006) which was an album created by Rob and Keith while Kevin moved to Seattle, WA. In the summer of 2006, Kevin would make a short return to Bloomington, and they would pack up their bags and take on the open road, leading from Detroit to Chicago, Ames, Bloomington, Pittsburgh, and on to New York City where they played in Manhattan and Brooklyn. After the tour, Kevin went back out west leaving Keith and Rob recording another album on their own, "BEST" (2006). Soon after, Kevin would move back to Bloomington and the band would reform.

2007 was a very aggressive year of song crafting and rehearsing for the next album, the very first full-length, studio-recorded album, "NICE" (2007). In April, the band headed down to Lexington, KY and into Shangri-la Studios with producer Duane Lundy, for a week of non-stop recording sessions. Months later, after tedious mixing, listening, editing and mastering, the album went off to press. The band pulled up their sleeves again to plan a tour stretching this time from Chicago to Urbana, Columbia, St. Louis and on to Red Rocks in Morrison, Colorado for the 2007 Monolith Music Festival. That was an experience of a life time and a helluva way to go out. Upon returning to Bloomington, Stranger Lazy played a final farewell basement show (in true form) and then slowly, quietly, and with a flicker of the light switch, disbanded.

Rob, Keith and Kevin continue to make solo albums and side projects, and pass songs back and forth to each other in the mail. Current work is being done on both analog and digital 4-tracks, 16-tracks and 32-tracks. Check the web site for all of the evidence of this story, and thank you for reading.. it's been a sensitive blast.