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
Justin and I started off the day early trying to do more then the
previous day. Driving around town is much more difficult then
anticipated, even though we were here last year. We spent a lot of
time trying to find parking and searching for boots. Not the most
exciting start, but well worth the finds: headbands and leather boots.
We went into the convention center to
explore the trade shows, the Stevie Ray Vaughan museum was much smaller
then I expected but still cool. We ran into some Ame
Local trio the Flamin' Hellcats have been some busy vatobillies. The band is in San Antonio this week recording its new album with Grammy-winning engineer Joe Trevino at Blue Cat Studios, and keeping some pretty fast company. Frontman Jaime Hellcat reports that the band's old buddy Scarface and Augie Meyers, Flaco Jimenez and Max Baca from the Texas Tornadoes are due to drop by Thursday, and that Billy Gibbons will make a guest appearance as well.
Hellcat says the album is ca
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
