Doug Sahm was the kingpin of the Sir Douglas Quintet plus two latter-day bands -- Sir Doug & Band and the Sir Douglas Band. fever tree, from Houston, was often mistaken for a Haight-Ashbury San ...

Doug Sahm, who has been referred to as the “the father of Americana music,” was honored Wednesday night at the Austin Music Awards. Along with an award presentation, a performance from fellow Texan ...

There’s finally a bit of good news for Doug Sahm fans. After much delay, the last recordings of the man known as “The Musical Voice of Texas,” the “State Musician of Texas” and, on a more mainstream ...

There are few figures in country music as influential and perhaps as underappreciated in modern culture as Doug Sahm, who changed the climate of the genre when he fused psychedelic San Francisco rock ...

Bob Dylan and San Antonio’s Doug Sahm in action, recording the 1973 album Doug Sahm and Band in New York City. Credit: Courtesy A young man with an imagined name in an ill-advised corduroy hat. A ...

Delbert McClinton politely invokes the ineffable when it comes to describing the Texas singer, songwriter and all-around protean figure Doug Sahm, who died in 1999. "The thing about Doug is that, if ...

(Is anybody going to) San Antone -- It's gonna be easy -- Your friends -- Poison love -- Wallflower -- Dealer's blues -- Faded love -- Blues stay away from me -- Papa ain't salty -- Me and Paul -- Don ...

A boy's plaid Western shirt bumps up against a row of rock 'n' roll radio-station Top 40 lists from the '60s, a business card from a long-gone South Side beauty shop and a small red date book. The ...

Remember that line about always wearing clean underwear in case you get hit by a car? Well, that old saw also applies to unfinished and unreleased recordings left behind by deceased musical artists.

Three kings: (l-r) Jerry Jeff Walker, Roky Erickson, and Doug Sahm perform at Margaret Moser’s private birthday party bash on May 16, 1977, at Gemini’s Club on Guadalupe. Credit: Photo by Ken Hoge As ...