Doug Sahm, who has been referred to as the “the father of Americana music,” was honored Wednesday night at the Austin Music Awards. Along with an award presentation, a performance from fellow Texan ...
There are few figures in country music as influential and perhaps as underappreciated in modern culture as Doug Sahm, who changed the climate of the genre when he fused psychedelic San Francisco rock ...
With a tribute album coming Tuesday (March 24), the late Doug Sahm was the subject of two live homage's this week at South By Southwest. By Gary Graff With a tribute album coming Tuesday (March 24), ...
LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Collectors' Choice Music travels back in time to re-release recordings by two Texas artists linked by geography and era. Doug Sahm was the kingpin of the Sir Douglas Quintet ...
It’s best to say it straightaway: Jay Farrar is a legend. Along with Jeff Tweedy of Wilco, he co-founded the critically acclaimed band Uncle Tupelo during the late 1980s in the middle-American locale ...
Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia had a dalliance with the pedal steel guitar for a period of time spanning April 1969 until around 1974. During that time, Garcia recorded one of the best-known ...
Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia performed with renowned keyboardist Leon Russell and acclaimed Texas-native singer-songwriter Doug Sahm on Thanksgiving in 1972. The performance billed as “Doug ...
More than a decade ago, a grassroots effort to push for the late San Antonio musical giant Doug Sahm’s nomination for the Rock and Roll Hall of fame died quietly. But now, on the strength of famed ...
An all-star tribute concert was Saturday night (March 21) at Austin's Parmount Theatre for late musician Doug Sahm, who was also the focus of a new film called "Sir Doug and the Genuine Texas Cosmic… ...
The late, great Doug Sahm loved women, big cars, baseball, Big Red soda, marijuana, his three kids and the open road, but he ate, drank, breathed and radiated music. It was more than love. Sahm, who ...
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, ...