Artist: Doug Sahm
Record Review from web archive March 24, 2009
Doug Sahm tribute
Tribute albums are inherently mixed bags, a challenge compounded when the subject is as much a myriad of musical possibility as the Texas Tornado. In his various incarnations, Doug Sahm embodied pretty much every musical strain of his native state – from Tex-Mex conjunto to garage-band psychedelia, from the purest country to the purest blues. [...]
Not Fade Away - Reissue Review from Issue #67 Jan-Feb 2007
Doug Sahm & Band – Self-Titled / Sir Douglas Band – Texas Tornado
Three years ago this pair appeared as a limited edition set from Rhino Handmade titled The Genuine Texas Groover with added alternates and outtakes. These are straight reissues, and it’s actually nice to hear them exactly as they were conceived and completed at the time. Doug Sahm And Band has the more consistent overall feel. [...]
Not Fade Away - Reissue Review from Issue #57 May-June 2005
Doug Sahm & The Sir Douglas Quintet – The Complete Mercury Recordings
If sales figures were a guiding compass, Doug Sahm was at best a minor regional artist who enjoyed brief pop chart success in the mid-to-late 1960s. But given his sphere of influence as a Texas musician — he was the Texas musician who could play all the roots sounds, from blues to country to jazz [...]
Not Fade Away - Reissue Review from Issue #50 March-April 2004
Doug Sahm – The Genuine Texas Groover
The notion that one should never trust anyone over 30 still had plenty of currency when Doug Sahm, former child prodigy, leader of faux-Brit pop stars the Sir Douglas Quintet, was signed by Jerry Wexler to Atlantic Records in late 1972. He was 31 and, perhaps, just beginning to reconcile the competing instincts that would [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #43 Jan-Feb 2003
Doug Sahm Day – Camargo Park / Tribute To Augie Meyers – Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center (San Antonio, TX)
You’d never know it from the history books, but San Antonio had an incredibly vital rock scene in the late 1950s and early ’60s. With so much military in the region, there were plenty of musicians and a huge audience base. Countless bands — a surprising number of them racially mixed — released singles on [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #28 July-Aug 2000
Doug Sahm / Sir Douglas Quintet – The Return Of Wayne Douglas / San Antonio Rock: The Harlem Recordings 1957-1961 / The Sir Douglas Quintet Is Back! / Soul Jam
Fate had it that, like most of us, he died alone in a place that was not Texas. But it was only the untimely, unacceptable fact of this death — sudden, and removed from the friends he had across the Lone Star State and wherever honest music is played — that made the new Doug [...]
The Long Way Around - Feature from Issue #27 May-June 2000
Doug Sahm – Loose-leaf memoirs
In the summer of 1973, Doug Sahm had settled into a rambling, leased wooden house on a tree-shaded hillside above the Soap Creek Saloon out on Bee Caves Road, in what was then rural Austin, Texas. His furnishings were simple: a bed, a table, two chairs, two spoons, two forks, two knives, two plates, a [...]
Farther Along - Obituary from Issue #25 Jan-Feb 2000
Doug Sahm: 1941 to 1999
“Now a song written by the great Freddy Fender — Freddy, this is for you, wherever you are,” said Doug Sahm, introducing not only “Wasted Days And Wasted Nights” but the almost mythic expanse of Texas music to rock fans weaned on Top 40. The year was 1971, the album was titled The Return Of [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #25 Jan-Feb 2000
Doug Sahm Tribute – Antone’s (Austin, TX)
It was exactly the sort of scene Doug Sahm would have immediately jumped into the middle of and made his own: a tornadic after-hours jam fearlessly mixing Tex-Mex, blues, country, rock, jazz and R&B in front of an audience willing to careen along with every stylistic twist and turn. And, even in Sahm’s unfortunate absence, [...]
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