10 years ago this week: Leading Tex-Mex music figure Doug Sahm passed away at the young age of 58. In the '60s he founded the cult favorite the Sir Douglas Quintet and later in his career he teamed with Augie Meyers, Freddy Fender, and Flaco Jimenez for the Mexican-infused country of the Texas Tornados.Doug Sahm on Austin City LimitsThe Sir Douglas QuintetThe Texas Tornados
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Been thinking about this topic for awhile. Has anyone else here found that their appreciation of a certain kind of music grows after they’ve visited the place where that music originates from? This has come to mind because for the last couple of weeks I’ve been listening (over and over again, and with great pleasure) to the last Doug Sahm album, “The Return Of Wayne Douglas.” Sahm, I think
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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 t...
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Been thinking about this topic for awhile. Has anyone else here found that their appreciation of a certain kind of music grows after they’ve visited the place where that music originates from? This has come to mind because for the last couple of weeks I’ve been listening (over and over again, and with great pleasure) to the last Doug Sahm album, “The Return Of Wayne Douglas.” Sahm, I think
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10 years ago this week: Leading Tex-Mex music figure Doug Sahm passed away at the young age of 58. In the '60s he founded the cult favorite the Sir Douglas Quintet and later in his career he teamed with Augie Meyers, Freddy Fender, and Flaco Jimenez for the Mexican-infused country of the Texas Tornados.Doug Sahm on Austin City LimitsThe Sir Douglas QuintetThe Texas Tornados
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