Expect Doug's usual blend of every American musical style under the sun on both Doug Sahm & Band's self-titled album and the Sir Douglas Band's album Texas Tornado, which feature a stellar supporting ...

SAN ANTONIO — The crowd was so large that about one-third of the estimated 1,000 mourners had to huddle around an underequipped Peavy speaker outside. But even more impressive than the large turnout ...

It wasn’t quite subterfuge, and it wasn’t exactly a scam. But during the mid-‘60s any band that smacked of the British Invasion was hot and sure to get attention. So, a number of, um, decidedly ...

A Tex-Mex supergroup of unrivaled proportions, the Texas Tornados — with an original lineup consisting of Freddy Fender, Flaco Jiménez, Augie Meyers and Doug Sahm — make a damn-near-perfect (and ...

Remember that line about always wearing clean underwear in case you get hit by a car? Well, that old saw also applies to unfinished and unreleased recordings left behind by deceased musical artists.

Few musicians are as identified with Texas as the late Doug Sahm. But Sahm also spent five years in exile in California, where rock historian Ed Ward got to know him. Ed takes a look at this period, ...

Shawn Sahm, looking eerily like his father (as always), and Steve Earle, 3.21.15 Credit: Jana Birchum “If y’all can’t get in the groove tonight, you’d better just go back to where you came from,” ...

Delbert McClinton politely invokes the ineffable when it comes to describing the Texas singer, songwriter and all-around protean figure Doug Sahm, who died in 1999. "The thing about Doug is that, if ...

This performance recorded October 14 1975 came after Doug had temporarily retired the Sir Douglas name but features original member Meyer along with musical compadres Martin Steitle John Barber Steve ...

Bob Dylan and San Antonio’s Doug Sahm in action, recording the 1973 album Doug Sahm and Band in New York City. Credit: Courtesy A young man with an imagined name in an ill-advised corduroy hat. A ...

A boy's plaid Western shirt bumps up against a row of rock 'n' roll radio-station Top 40 lists from the '60s, a business card from a long-gone South Side beauty shop and a small red date book. The ...

Author of definitive biographies on Lone Star landmarks Selena, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and Willie Nelson, longtime local music scribe Joe Nick Patoski now debuts as a filmmaker with Sir Doug & the ...