Family, friends and filmmakers recently gathered at the Cinefamily Theatre on Fairfax in Los Angeles for Sir Doug and the Genuine Texas Cosmic Groove — the long-anticipated documentary about the under-appreciated Doug Sahm, produced by Joe Nick Patoski, author of books […]
Ebullient Americana is splayed in every good direction. Declarative guitars and nimble standup join rollicking, rustic banjo pickin’, on-beam kick-beats, and countrified sonorousness in gloriously happy ambition. Notably erudite, despite rough-hewn exterior. You can ponder the narratives, yes. But know […]
Everyone has their own story about how they discovered the music of Doug Sahm. Maybe you first heard of him through tributes or covers of his music from alt-country acts like Uncle Tupelo, the Bottle Rockets, and the Gourds, to […]
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 […]
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 […]
