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Texas Tornado: The Times & Music of Doug Sahm (Brad and Michele Moore Roots Music)
by
Jan Reid (Goodreads Author),
Shawn Sahm
Doug Sahm was a singer, songwriter, and guitarist of legendary range and reputation. The first American musician to capitalize on the 1960s British invasion, Sahm vaulted to international fame leading a faux-British band called the Sir Douglas Quintet, whose hits included "She's About a Mover," "The Rains Came," and "Mendocino." He made the cover of Rolling Stone magazine...more
Hardcover, 216 pages
Published
February 15th 2010
by University of Texas Press
(first published 2010)
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Stupidities jump out of this biography of Doug Sahm like fleas off one of his friend Augie Meyers' dogs. The writer, Jan Reid, calls jazz giant Horace Silver a blues musician, says J. Garcia learned steel guitar to join the New Riders of the Purple Sage BEFORE he joined the Grateful Dead, talks about Louie Ortega as Doug's protege and then IDs someone else as Louie in an accompanying photo. But the biggest shortcoming is that there is no sense of Sir Doug here--just a chronology of his career, l...more
I have loved the Sir Douglas Quintet since early 1973 when I
bought Mendocino LP in Santa Monica for $1.00 at a
record warehouse with my cousin. He was the late Pat Sabino a drummer with many bands in California. Pat and I saw Augie Myers up in San Jose
in 1978. Another story, but this a a well written book. SOme
in correct data about Jerry Garcia playing steel petal to join
the New Riders. Not so, Jerry a Dead leader and he played
steel on Teach YOur Children. Let us not be so pickly. Oh
Me talking....more
bought Mendocino LP in Santa Monica for $1.00 at a
record warehouse with my cousin. He was the late Pat Sabino a drummer with many bands in California. Pat and I saw Augie Myers up in San Jose
in 1978. Another story, but this a a well written book. SOme
in correct data about Jerry Garcia playing steel petal to join
the New Riders. Not so, Jerry a Dead leader and he played
steel on Teach YOur Children. Let us not be so pickly. Oh
Me talking....more
The first biography of Texas visionary musician Doug Sahm, whose music fused white, black, and brown cultures in danceable grooves. A little dry and a little inaccurate considering source material available (critic Ed Ward who feuded publicly with Sahm worked for the daily paper, not the hipper weekly, for example), but a concise biography of one of rock & roll's most talented and versatile musicians ever. If Reid prose is spare, neither does he gush unnecessarily. Love the photos!
An elaborate biography on Doug Sahm known to most as the Doug in The Sir Douglas Quintet - to those from Texas he became a local musical folk hero not only as a pedal steel guitar child prodigy who played with Hank Williams once when he was 7 but later in life defined what modern day Texas music is all about.
Really good book on an underappreciated voice in music. the writer's style was a little sloppy in places.
I enjoyed recalling the musical performers from the Austin scene from late 60's to the 80's.
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Jan Reid has written for Texas Monthly, Esquire, GQ, Slate, Men’s Journal, Garden & Gun, and the New York Times. Reid’s twelve books include The Improbable Rise of Redneck Rock, The Bullet Meant for Me, Rio Grande, and Let the People In: The Life and Times of Ann Richards. The biography has won praise from Bill Clinton to Dan Rather, from the Washington Post to the Economist to Texas Monthly,...more
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