Sunday under the Texas flag: Doug Sahm & Freddy Fender
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For an incorrigiblly effete Easterner, I have always had a real affection for the state where my mom settled for the last years of her life. Once you get out of the twin execrescences of Dallas and Houston, it is a strange, rich, complicated place. And for me, nobody sums up the sounds and feel of Texas - no, not even Willie Nelson - better than the late, great Doug Sahm. Here he pays tribute to fellow Texas Tornado and star-in-his-own right Freddie Fender with his own take on what's probably Fender's most famous song.In the comments, one of my favorite versions of "Corinna Corinna," from Fender's days recording for small south Texas labels in the late Fifties and early Sixties. At the time, he was still very much a regional act. But by damn, you could listen to that voice and knew he had something very special....
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