TY  - BOOK
AU  - Reid,Jan
AU  - Sahm,Shawn
TI  - Texas Tornado: The Times and Music of Doug Sahm 
T2  - Brad and Michele Moore Roots Music Series
SN  - 9780292792852
AV  - ML420.S133 R45 2010eb
U1  - 781.66092 22
PY  - 2010///]
CY  - Austin
PB  - University of Texas Press
KW  - Rock musicians
KW  - Texas
KW  - Biography
KW  - Tejano musicians
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; Prologue: A Real American Joe --; 1. A Cajun Two-Step Tex-Mex Polka --; 2. Song and Dance Men --; 3. Summers of Love --; 4. The Real Old Texas Me --; 5. Crossroads --; 6. Austin after Dark --; 7. The Coast-to-Coast All-Star Bands --; 8. Are We a Group? --; 9. Soap Creek --; 10. Groovers Paradise --; 11. Country Boogie --; 12. Sometimes I Cry --; 13. Wanderlust --; 14. Borderlands --; Epilogue: Guitar Slim --; Selected Discography --; Index --; Index of Song Titles; restricted access
N2  - 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 in 1968 and 1971 and performed with the Grateful Dead, Dr. John, Willie Nelson, Boz Scaggs, and Bob Dylan. Texas Tornado is the first biography of this national music legend. Jan Reid traces the whole arc of Sahm's incredibly versatile musical career, as well as the manic energy that drove his sometimes turbulent personal life and loves. Reid follows Sahm from his youth in San Antonio as a prodigy steel guitar player through his breakout success with the Sir Douglas Quintet and his move to California, where, with an inventive take on blues, rock, country, and jazz, he became a star in San Francisco and invented the "cosmic cowboy" vogue. Reid also chronicles Sahm's later return to Texas and to chart success with the Grammy Award–winning Texas Tornados, a rowdy "conjunto rock and roll band" that he modeled on the Beatles and which included Sir Douglas alum Augie Meyers and Tejano icons Freddy Fender and Flaco Jimenez. With his exceptional talent and a career that bridged five decades, Doug Sahm was a rock and roll innovator whose influence can only be matched among his fellow Texas musicians by Buddy Holly, Roy Orbison, Janis Joplin, and Stevie Ray Vaughan. Texas Tornado vividly captures the energy and intensity of this musician whose life burned out too soon, but whose music continues to rock
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7560/721968
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780292792852
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780292792852/original
ER  -