The Sir Douglas Band “Texas Tornado”
I recently finished reading Jan Reid’s (cowritten with Shawn Sahm) new Doug Sahm biography, Texas Tornado: The Times & Music of Doug Sahm out now from The University of Texas Press. This post isn’t so much a review of the album above, but more of a short audio compendium to the book, highlighting some of Doug’s favorites, standards, where he came from and what he inspired.
Read our book review at Aquarium Drunkard.
mp3: Bobby “Blue” Bland – I Pity The Fool
mp3: Claude King – Wolverton Mountain
mp3: Freddy Fender – Wasted Days and Wasted Nights
mp3: Doug Sahm – Sometimes You’ve Got To Stop Chasing Rainbows
mp3: Sir Douglas Quintet – At The Crossroads
“Why can’t you just groove!”
Texas Tornado | 2006 | Collectors Choice | at amazon ]
Monday, February 8th, 2010
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yeah man, great post to get through a cold, rainy day in austin.
tickpopper February 11, 2010 @ 5:37 pm
Nice. Now that I have a little spare cash, I need to get this book. What did you think???
LD February 21, 2010 @ 1:18 am
Duh. Just saw the link to Aquarium Drunkard. Heh. Nice work, Brendan. Just ordered the book and cannot wait to digest.
LD February 21, 2010 @ 3:38 pm
Can’t wait to read your take on it LD. You’ve got some of the best Doug pages online.
Brendan February 22, 2010 @ 10:55 am