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 […]
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 […]
I was confounded, too, by jungle, techno, drum ‘n’ bass, rave and electrosnot until Texas rock patriarch Doug Sahm explained it all on these remixes of a 1996 Tornados single. British hipsters droning the same line gets old quick, but […]
The Texas Tornados’ self-titled 1990 debut was more than a pleasant surprise, it was a damn good record. It had Tex-Mex rave-ups from Augie Meyers (“Que Paso” and “Dinero”), a Freddy Fender tear-in-your-beer ballad (“A Man Can Cry”), an eye-opening […]
