Doug Sahm

Coming attractions: More 'Mamma Mia!' on DVD

USA Today (Free subscription) | 20/11/2008

For those fans who didn't get their fill of frothy ABBA tunes from the film adaptation of Mamma Mia!, there is more fun to come. ...

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HarbourLiving.ca (Free subscription) | 19/11/2008

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Fl color promo a img fl color promo (Free subscription) | 09/11/2008

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If You Got the Dinero!

Texas Trifles (Free subscription) | 12/10/2008

And who can find fault with a Saturday night selection of the Texas Tornados and this little ditty, featuring Flaco Jimenez (the conjunto accordian player for the uninitiated), Freddy Fender, Doug Sahm (yes, THE MAN of the Sir Douglas Quintet), and Augie Meyers? A toe-tapper deluxe! Sadly, Freddy and Doug are not with us anymore. Here is Augie Meyers MySpace site. You gotta listen to "My Freeholies...

Met date for folk great Russell

Manchester Evening News (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008

TOM Russell is one of the great contemporary American songwriters and performers. He plays here on Saturday.

Jerry Wexler dies

Where's the Outrage? (Free subscription) | 17/08/2008

A friend of mine mentioned Jerry Wexler to me. I said who? Here’s what he wrote me - Bad week for R&B, what with Isaac Hayes and Jerry Wexler dying. Wexler was THE reason that Atlantic Records and Stax Records were different from Motown. Twenty essential Jerry Wexler recordings 1. Professor [...]

The enemy of my enemy is probably not my friend...In memory of Doug Sahm

the defeatists! (Free subscription) | 20/07/2008

A little bit is better than nada/Sometimes you want the whole enchilada/A little bit is better than nada/A little bit or nothing at all! Well written article that is intentionally ironic about the CIA-Pakistani Intelligence Service marriage of convenience in...

• A CIA lesson from the field: Never trust another spy - International Herald Tribune

Alejandro Escovedo At The HighLine Ballroom

Earvolution (Free subscription) | 14/07/2008

By: David Schultz There’s no bigger asset to becoming a successful artist than word of mouth. If enough people say a certain artist is the greatest thing to come along since Lennon met McCartney, it doesn’t matter if they actually are, the gospel is written and so it shall be. This can produce some bizarre scenarios such as Terrence Trent D’Arby being proclaimed the new James Brown, a widespread

Wave That Flag, Hoss!

Seattle Weekly (Free subscription) | 02/07/2008

I love my country...but fear my government . That's one of them liberal bumper stickers. It's pasted to a gorgeous mid-'60s Dodge all loused up with other enlightened poo like "Celebrate Diversity," "Got Rights'," and "Who Would Jesus Bomb?" Every day I walk by t...

Reckless Kelly - Bulletproof

Twangville (Free subscription) | 24/06/2008

In the late-nineties and early in this current millennium, the Texas-Country scene exploded, not only in the Lone Star State, but throughout the South. The vast scope of the music attracted many listeners, as the movement represented an alternative to the product that was being churned out in Nashville. The giants from that [...]

blue stew & friends - headed south

nongseynyo (Free subscription) | 20/05/2008

Blue Stew is a unique and original rockin' blues band from Ventura, CA. with three critically acclaimed CDs released in the USA. Formed in 1994, they have played shows with Little Feat, Duke Robillard, Eddy Clearwater, Roomful of Blues, Larry Carlton, The Blasters, Storyville, Doug Sahm & The Last Real Texas Blues Band.... Their music has had substantial radio play as well as glowing reviews in Blues...

Hayes Carll the Heir Apparent

Twangville (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008

There have been a lot of reviews written already about the new Hayes Carll album, Trouble in Mind. It is no doubt an album that fully establishes him as an artist. Exactly what it establishes him as is what I would like to address. A lot of the Texas Troubadours are getting older. Some like [...]

doug sahm - hell of a spell

nongseynyo (Free subscription) | 18/04/2008

This 1980 reissue is a hell of a disc. From the opening riffs this disc is crammed with Sahm's typical rompin' and stompin' Texas blues/rhythm & blues mix. This also includes liberal dashes of the Tex-Mex and rockabilly he grew up cutting his teeth on. Rudy "Tutti" Grayzell used to go to his school when Sahm was 11, as legend goes, and pose as his uncle and pull the musical prodigy out of school to...

Martin Fierro

Times Online (Free subscription) | 24/03/2008

As a saxophonist and flautist with Doug Sahm, Quicksilver Messenger Service, the Grateful Dead and Jerry Garcia, Martin Fierro was a musical institution and a mainstay of the so-called West Coast music scene from the late 1960s onwards.

iVoryTowerz Radio: Shame on the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

iVoryTowerz (Free subscription) | 15/03/2008

This week it is time to rant and roll. The underground podcast takes on the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Perhaps, like us, you wonder if the folks running the hall understand rock music. One of our rock critics (and podcast co-conductor) Jeff Siegel already teed off on the hall in this blog's most provocative post: "The Dave Clark Five? Who is Kidding Whom?" This post and podcast are the inevitable...