As much as he deserves one, late San Antonio native Doug Sahm is a tricky subject for a tribute album. He was a true musical polymath, a master of just about every form of post-WWII popular music, ...

More than a decade ago, a grassroots effort to push for the late San Antonio musical giant Doug Sahm’s nomination for the Rock and Roll Hall of fame died quietly. But now, on the strength of famed ...

Doug Sahm would’ve turned 74 today. Happy birthday, Sir Doug — a Groover’s Paradise is in store this weekend. The folks at the South Texas Popular Culture Center decided to celebrate it with a bunch ...

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 ...

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.

SAN ANTONIO — The Doug Sahm story comes to life tonight at the Guadalupe Theater with the screening of music journalist Joe Nick Patoski’s acclaimed documentary “Sir Doug and the Genuine Texas Cosmic ...

A Tex-Mex supergroup of unrivaled proportions, the Texas Tornados — with an original lineup consisting of Freddy Fender, Flaco Jiménez, Augie Meyers and Doug Sahm — make a damn-near-perfect (and ...

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 ...

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 ...

After Lou Reed’s death, the number of people sharing stories of his friendship or recalling a random meeting with him was astounding. The only time I remember something similar happening was after the ...

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 ...

Texas Tornados founder Doug Sahm was a legendary free spirit. His son, musician Shawn Sahm, not so much. “I’m the realist,” said Sahm, 53. Charlie Sexton: Acclaimed guitarist, record producer, solo ...