There are selections from the beginning – Just A Moment and She’s About A Mover, to the end, Dallas Alice and Love Minus Zero/No Limit, both with their country hats on. To everyone else I’d say, check out the playlist, sample some of the clips – I’ve included more than usual non-selected songs, and if/when you feel like diving into the text there are headings which might be helpful. So, I reconsidered, rearranged and chipped away as much as I could but the improvement was marginal, though it might be OK for existing fans of Sir Doug who could do worse than skip the rest of this para and go straight to the next one. My first attempt went totally over the top. Selecting music and words to represent all this wasn’t easy. He didn’t really have hits apart from one big one so his audience isn’t huge, but it can be noisy: it ranges from ageing hippies still dreaming of those sessions in the Frisco Bay Area to rednecks banging on tables in bars to tex-mex polkas from ladies in Stockholm fondly remembering the long haired Texan to music buffs still trying to figure out what Doug was about. He produced records in genre after genre which one minute might be raw but enthusiastic, and the next, highly polished and with gorgeous arrangements.
Texas Tornados (l to r): Flaco Jiménez, Augie Meyers, Doug Sahm, Freddy Fenderĭoug Sahm did everything. Sir Douglas Quintet (l to r): Doug Sahm (guitar, vocals), Augie Meyers (organ), Johnny Perez (drums), Jack Barber (bass), Frank Morin (sax) The Best Of Doug Sahm's Atlantic Sessions
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