Sir Douglas Quintet The Best Of Doug Sahm & The Sir Douglas Quintet 1968-1975 (CD)

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Sir Douglas Quintet: The Best Of Doug Sahm & The Sir Douglas Quintet 1968-1975 (CD)

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The Sir Douglas Quintet was a rock band active from 1964 to 1999. Despite their British sounding name, they came out of San Antonio, Texas and featured a Tex-Mex sound. Their most familiar lineup included Doug Sahm (lead vocals), Augie Meyers (organ, vocals), Frank Morin (sax, trumpet and keyboards), Harvey Kagan (bass), and Johnny Perez (drums). It also included Doug "Cosmo" Clifford (drums), Jack Barber (bass), Alvin Crow (fiddle, organ, guitar, vocals), Louie Ortega (guitar, vocals), Rocky Morales (saxophone, harmonica, vocals), John "X" Reed (guitar, vocals), Clay Meyers (drums), Shawn Sahm (guitar, vocals), Martin Fierro (various horns), Bobby Black (pedal steel guitar), Ernie Durawa (drums), Mike Buck (drums), Jon Blondell (bass), Speedy Sparks (bass), and many, many others.

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Sir Douglas Quintet - The Best Of Doug Sahm & The Sir Douglas Quintet 1968-1975 (CD) CD 1
01	Mendocino	Sir Douglas Quintet
02	Sunday Sunny Mill Valley Groove Day	Sir Douglas Quintet
03	I'm Glad For Your Sake	Sir Douglas Quintet
04	Texas Me	Sir Douglas Quintet
05	You Never Get Too Big, And You Sure Don't Get	Sir Douglas Quintet
06	Song Of Everything	Sir Douglas Quintet
07	Catch The Man On The Rise	Sir Douglas Quintet
08	At The Crossroads	Sir Douglas Quintet
09	In The Dark	Sir Douglas Quintet
10	Nuevo Laredo	Sir Douglas Quintet
11	I Wanna Be Your Mama Again	Sir Douglas Quintet
12	I Don't Want To Go Home	Sir Douglas Quintet
13	Be Real	Sir Douglas Quintet
14	Papa Ain't Salty	Sir Douglas Quintet
15	The Gypsy	Sir Douglas Quintet
16	Wasted Days And Wasted Nights	Sir Douglas Quintet
17	Michoacan	Sir Douglas Quintet
18	Westside Blues Again	Sir Douglas Quintet
19	San Antone	Sir Douglas Quintet
20	Texas Tornado	Sir Douglas Quintet
21	Baby, Let's Go To Mexico	Sir Douglas Quintet
22	I'm Not That Kat Anymore	Sir Douglas Quintet

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Texas Tornado

The 'Doug Sahm And Band' LP was released in January 1973; by April, it was clear that it would be a commercial bust, but Atlantic had already committed to one more album. Culling three tracks from the 'And Band' sessions, Atlantic sent Sahm to Wally Heider's San Francisco studio in April to round out the second album with some small, inexpensive sessions. Sahm's champion at Atlantic, Jerry Wexler, was watching his big dream crash down with the epic failure of the Willie Nelson and Doug Sahm projects. Wexler had already left the day-to-day running of Atlantic and had relocated to Florida. His relationship with company president Ahmet Ertegun was deteriorating, and Ertegun pulled the plug on Wexler's Nashville office in September 1974. In '75, Wexler left the label he hadn't founded but had helped to create.

Drawn from the San Francisco sessions, Texas Tornado was very much in the riff-driven Tex-Mex mode that Sahm had made his own. It cried out for the accordion and horns that Atlantic wouldn't spring for. The only single pulled from the album, it didn't make a blip anywhere. Doug stuck with the name, though. When he reappeared on ABC in 1976, his band was called Sir Doug & the Texas Tornados, and in 1990 he assembled another supergroup, this one comprising himself, Augie Meyers, Freddy Fender, and Flaco Jiminez. They too were dubbed the Texas Tornados. Success remained elusive but Sahm's reputation in the fifteen years since his death has risen ever higher.

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