Doug Sahm Essentials

Doug Sahm Essentials

How many people can claim they invented a genre damn near single-handedly? Doug Sahm could. Slinging together a loose, nice 'n' greasy blend of the sounds he loved—rock 'n' roll, '50s R&B, '60s soul, honky-tonk, and especially Mexican conjunto—he was the major mover of the Tex-Mex music scene of the '60s and '70s. And that mix was a mighty one, whether it found the long, tall Texan choogling into garage-rock territory in his Sir Douglas Quintet days with primal rock ‘n’ roll stompers, freewheeling through loose-limbed country rockers like a Southwestern version of The Band, or delivering straight-up honky-tonking saloon songs.

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