Subject: Doug Sahm

• Lomax’s Weekend Round-Up

  June 1, 2007

• Lonesome Onry and Mean: Jon Byrd Tunes Up Country

  September 3, 2008

• Rotation

  Various Artists

  May 11, 2000

• Conjunto's King

  Advancements in Tejano aside, Flaco Jimenez is still the champ

  August 24, 2000

• Sons of Sahm

  Missouri's Bottle Rockets resurrect the Texas Tornado and rediscover themselves

  May 30, 2002

• Tonight: Tejas Brothers at Greenspoint Mall

  Tejas Brothers, "She's About a Mover/Give Me Back My Wig" If you're looking for a poster band for the Texican thing, you'd be hard-pressed to find a better one than Fort Worth's Tejas Brothers. Currently gaining momentum due to heavy play on Sirius/XM's Outlaw Country station, the Brothers sound like a simplified Sir Douglas Quintet - sticking closely to the gringo-ized version of Tex-Mex Doug Sahm and Augie Meyers popularized years ago with songs like "Guacamole." There's

  December 4, 2008

• Rotation

  March 24, 1994

• Live Shots

  December 15, 1994

• Sole of Houston: Airport Drive, The Finale (Including Unwanted Puke)

  And here is the final installment of David Beebe and John Lomax's 20-plus mile hike from Intercontinental Airport to Spanish Flowers restaurant. Part one is here and part two is here.David Beebe's accounts of the same hike are here and here.Airline's furthest reaches are lined by sprawling and run-down '70s apartment complexes. And yet there's a weirdly rural feel in patches. The 281 area code hangs on for a longer time than you would expect, and there are plenty of fireworks stands, as a swath

  January 15, 2009

• Rotation

  March 16, 1995

• Kicking the Genre Habit

  April 13, 1995

• Not the Sahm Old Thing

  April 27, 1995

• Doug Sahm Tribute Album Due March 24

  Vanguard Records (Billy Bob Thornton & the Boxmasters, Kim Richey, the Watson Twins) announced today it will release Keep Your Soul: A Tribute to Doug Sahm, a 14-song disc honoring the late musican known as Sir Doug, March 24. Artists include Delbert McClinton, Los Lobos, Alejandro Escovedo, Dave Alvin, Terry Allen, Charlie Sexton and former Afghan Whigs lead singer Greg Dulli. Sahm's two sons, Shandon and Shawn, are also featured on Keep Your Soul. Shandon, who now fronts his own heav

  January 21, 2009

• Lonesome Onry and Mean: A Tribute to Chris Gaffney

  Chris Gaffney Right on the heels of Wednesday's announcement of Vanguard's new Doug Sahm tribute album comes Yep Roc's tribute to Chris Gaffney, The Man of Somebody's Dreams. Ironically, it includes some of the same high-profile roots artists who pay tribute to Sahm: Dave Alvin, Los Lobos and Alejandro Escovedo. Gaffney was a Southern California barroom legend, the kind of player and man for whom the cliché "musician's musician" was coined.    Before he died of liver

  January 23, 2009

• Wasted Days, Wasted Lives (Part I)

  February 22, 1996

• Press Picks

  April 4, 1996

• Same Old Sir

  May 16, 1996

• Can't Get It Out of My Head: "New Madrid"

  Wilco, "New Madrid," live at the Fox Theater, Boulder, Colorado, May 1995 Rocks Off is never really not on an Uncle Tupelo kick, but it sure came flooding back after he heard "New Madrid" on Fred Imus' Saturday-morning Trailer Park Bash satellite-radio show last weekend. Even among such future alt-country touchstones as "Acuff/Rose," "The Long Cut" and killer Doug Sahm duet "Give Back the Key to My Heart," "New Madrid" has always been Rocks Off favorite song on the late St. Louis band's

  February 11, 2009

• Rotation

  August 14, 1997

• SXSW 09 Will Be a Groover's Paradise

  A few weeks ago, Rocks Off could barely contain his enthusaism when he opened the mail - a momentous enough occasion in itself - and found an advance of Vanguard Records' Keep Your Soul: A Tribute to Doug Sahm. He put it on as soon as he got home (his piddly office CD player is just not groovy enough to handle such a disc), and was hardly disappointed. Whether it's ex-Afghan Whig and current Gutter Twin Greg Dulli growling "You Was for Real," Dave Alvin's kinetic honky-tonker "Dynamite

  February 24, 2009

• SXSW: Austin Music Awards at Austin Music Hall

  Photos by Mark C. AustinAustin is full of ghosts, and not just at the Driskill Hotel. (Say hi to LBJ's mistress for us, though, those of you staying there.) Some of the ghosts aren't even dead. Take the Dicks (above), Austin's early-'80s hardcore trail-blazers who reconvened to play Wednesday night's Austin Music Awards and be inducted into the AMAs' Texas Music Hall of Fame - by X's Exene Cervenka, no less.Recognized today as one of the primary cornerstones of Texas punk, the Dicks' five-song s

  March 19, 2009

• Album of the Week: Keep Your Soul: A Tribute to Doug Sahm

  As much as he deserves one - make that several - Doug Sahm is a tricky subject for a tribute album. The late San Antonio native known as "Sir Doug" was a true musical polymath, a master of just about every form of post-WWII popular music, both the big ones - country, blues, rock and roll - as well as more regionally specific genres like conjunto, Norteno, Cajun and swamp pop. More often than not, Sahm would roll several of the aforementioned styles into one son

  April 7, 2009

• Aftermath: SXSW

  March 26, 2009

• Charley Pride

  January 15, 2009

• Various Artists: Keep Your Soul: A Tribute to Doug Sahm

  April 16, 2009

• River Oaks Racketeering at Capone's

  Wednesday night, minus Robert De Niro

  October 23, 2008

• Americans Recording Mexican Songs

  The Bueno, the Bad and the Muy Ugly

  May 22, 2008

• Grand Theft Auto X: The Screwston Chronicles

  May 15, 2008

• A New Official State Song for Texas?

  A case for a new — or different, anyway — state song

  February 21, 2008

• Freddy Fender is 'El Bebop Kid'

  January 31, 2008

• Primary Season

  Check out some of the new candidates for this year's Houston Press Music Awards

  May 11, 2006

• Los Super 7

  Heard It on the X

  March 24, 2005

• A Pair of Aces

  John Evans and Jesse Dayton drop career-defining records two weeks apart

  October 14, 2004

• Best New Bar

  September 23, 2004

• Doug Sahm

  The Genuine Texas Groover (Rhino Handmade)

  March 4, 2004

• McKay Brothers

  McKay Brothers (Texas Archipelago Records)

  January 29, 2004

• Flaco Jimenez

  Tuesday, September 23

  September 18, 2003

• The Derailers

  Genuine (Lucky Dog)

  April 24, 2003

• Roy Head

  Head On! (Music Club)

  December 13, 2001

• Freddy Fender / Doug Sahm

  Exitos en Español: The Spanish Side of Freddy Fender (Music Club) /The Roots of Doug Sahm, Son of San Antonio (Music Club)

  September 6, 2001

• Minibill

  Flaco Jimenez

  July 26, 2001

• Remembering Doug Sahm

  The Texas Tornado is gone, but not forgotten

  December 16, 1999

• North and South

  Tranquil Canada flavors San Antonian Doug Sahm's rustic music

  July 22, 1999

• Aftermath: The Krayolas at Cactus Music

  Photos by Chris Gray The coolest band in Houston this weekend couldn't find a club or venue to play. Not at night, anyway - San Antonio's the Krayolas did manage to play Dan Electro's during Saturday afternoon's live broadcast of KPFT's Joe's Roadhouse, and Cactus Music an hour or two thereafter. If you have any idea who Joe "King" Carrasco is - the Dumas-born rocker who fooled MTV and Stiff Records into thinking his Tex-Mex party music was New Wave in the early '80s - you would have loved the K

  June 22, 2009

• Rocks Off Checks Out Corpus Christi

  Photos by Craig Hlavaty This past weekend, Rocks Off took a respite from sweltering H-Town to visit family in our equallly sweltering, ball-sweat-inducing neighbor to the south. Corpus Christi is rather small compared the teeming ant farm we have here, topping just over a quarter of a million beachified and sunburned folks. Rocks Off has been coming to "The Sparkling City by the Sea" to visit his grandparents and burn layers off his skin since he was born. Over the past decade or so, Corpus has

  June 22, 2009

• Lonesome Onry and Mean: Tremoloco Headed Back Under the Volcano

  Doug Sahm is probably up in heaven with a bottle of Big Red in his hand and a huge smile on his face and bending God's ear about Tremoloco. Lonesome, On'ry and Mean has received an early warning that Tremoloco is returning to Under the Volcano July 22, after a 13-month absence. Composed of Los Lobos vets Tony Zamora and Cougar Estrada, longtime Dave Alvin sideman Rick Shea, and three - count 'em, three - ace guitaristas in Bob Robles, Mike Tovar and Juan Chacon, this outfit brings it full-force

  June 30, 2009

• Sahm Does Sahm

  July 23, 2009

• Aftermath: Tremoloco at Under the Volcano

  Photos by Vera Mitchell  Los Angeles roots band Tremoloco brought Doug Sahm-type Mexican soul to an enthusiastic audience Wednesday night at Under the Volcano. After warming up with a brand-new song called "Old Man," the band sucked the eager crowd in with a stellar country version of Warren Zevon's "Carmelita," and it was all fun and games after that as they worked through last year's release Dulcinea. The biggest surprise of the evening was an L.A. vato-billy version of Dylan's "Highway 6

  July 23, 2009

• Lonesome Onry and Mean: Delbert McClinton Should Go Honky-Tonkin' More Often

  ​LOM has been listening to Delbert McClinton's new album Acquired Taste (New West), which hits stores next Tuesday, quite a bit lately. We've always been a fan of Delbert's and consider him to be one of the leading proponents of what we consider Texas music. Much like Doug Sahm, the Fort Worth native has always had blues, country and rock mixed up in the proper Texas proportions, and for us, that's Texas music. LOM will never forget the first time we heard McClinton's album Victim of Life

  August 13, 2009

• Lonesome Onry and Mean: Remembering Doug Sahm - 10 Years Gone Already?

  "You just can't live in Texas if you don't have a lot of soul" - Doug Sahm, "At the Crossroads" ​If the Texas music scene ever had a soul, it belonged to Doug Sahm, the leader of the Sir Douglas Quintet who passed away ten years ago Wednesday. It didn't matter whether he was knee-deep in the blues, hammering on a three-chord rocker, or sawing on his fiddle, Doug Sahm was 100% Texan to his core. Sahm had a storybook career, from child prodigy who was asked to join the Grand Ole Opry and sat i

  November 19, 2009