The Sir Douglas Quintet
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Band lead by Doug Sahm
A Lone Star original with a German surname, an Edwardian suit, a Beatles haircut, a loving knowledge of the blues and r&b, Western swing and Tex-Mex sounds, a voice like a flayed and tanned hide, a deliriously eclectic bag of tunes, a bare handful of nationally charting hits, and a cult that includes admirers Jerry Wexler, Bod Dylan, Elvis Costello, and Joe "King" Carrasco? Nothing about Douglas Wayne Sahm is quite what it appears to be.
Born in San Antonio on November 6, 1941, Sahm descended from "squareheads", as the German settlers who contributed the accordion to border music are known in Texas: at the turn of the century his grandfather had what Sahm calls "a German oom-pah-pah band".
Doug himself started playing tripleneck steel guitar at the tender age of six. When he was nine, his father began taking him to local joints like The Barns to see stars like Webb Pierce, Hank Williams and Bob Wills. " I used to watch the steel players", he grins. "Before I even had a guitar I took a box and drew strings on it, and when the radio would come on with fifteen minutes of country bands I'd fantasize that I was playing the steel over the radio".
By his teens he was past-fantasy, gigging around in local bar bands on guitar and fiddle, playing the time's typical stew of r&b stompers, rockabilly rave-ups, roadhouse blues, and Western-swing and two step rhythms. Sahm recalls, "I was listening to Hank Ballard and Chuck Berry, Webb Pierce and Howlin' Wolf, The Drifters and Hank Williams and Johnny Ace, all that '50s stuff. Little Richard was my favorite. The music really incensed a lot of parents, although it wasn't very racial at all. The east side of San Antonio, where I grew up, was predominantly black then -now it's all black-. San Antonio's very racially mixed, always has been; the older people mix really well. So parents just knew there was something in that black music that the kids loved. They had no idea what was coming". Neither did the kids themselves, "When I saw Elvis in '56 it just blew my mind. I put the pompadour up, got in front of the mirror, and started to practice shaking".
Taken from The Best Of Doug Sahm & The Sir Douglas Quintet's booklet, (Mercury, 1990) by Gene Santoro.
A Lone Star original with a German surname, an Edwardian suit, a Beatles haircut, a loving knowledge of the blues and r&b, Western swing and Tex-Mex sounds, a voice like a flayed and tanned hide, a deliriously eclectic bag of tunes, a bare handful of nationally charting hits, and a cult that includes admirers Jerry Wexler, Bod Dylan, Elvis Costello, and Joe "King" Carrasco? Nothing about Douglas Wayne Sahm is quite what it appears to be.
Born in San Antonio on November 6, 1941, Sahm descended from "squareheads", as the German settlers who contributed the accordion to border music are known in Texas: at the turn of the century his grandfather had what Sahm calls "a German oom-pah-pah band".
Doug himself started playing tripleneck steel guitar at the tender age of six. When he was nine, his father began taking him to local joints like The Barns to see stars like Webb Pierce, Hank Williams and Bob Wills. " I used to watch the steel players", he grins. "Before I even had a guitar I took a box and drew strings on it, and when the radio would come on with fifteen minutes of country bands I'd fantasize that I was playing the steel over the radio".
By his teens he was past-fantasy, gigging around in local bar bands on guitar and fiddle, playing the time's typical stew of r&b stompers, rockabilly rave-ups, roadhouse blues, and Western-swing and two step rhythms. Sahm recalls, "I was listening to Hank Ballard and Chuck Berry, Webb Pierce and Howlin' Wolf, The Drifters and Hank Williams and Johnny Ace, all that '50s stuff. Little Richard was my favorite. The music really incensed a lot of parents, although it wasn't very racial at all. The east side of San Antonio, where I grew up, was predominantly black then -now it's all black-. San Antonio's very racially mixed, always has been; the older people mix really well. So parents just knew there was something in that black music that the kids loved. They had no idea what was coming". Neither did the kids themselves, "When I saw Elvis in '56 it just blew my mind. I put the pompadour up, got in front of the mirror, and started to practice shaking".
Taken from The Best Of Doug Sahm & The Sir Douglas Quintet's booklet, (Mercury, 1990) by Gene Santoro.
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Genres:
60s Rock
Hometown:
San Antonio, Texas
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About The Sir Douglas Quintet
Band lead by Doug Sahm
A Lone Star original with a German surname, an Edwardian suit, a Beatles haircut, a loving knowledge of the blues and r&b, Western swing and Tex-Mex sounds, a voice like a flayed and tanned hide, a deliriously eclectic bag of tunes, a bare handful of nationally charting hits, and a cult that includes admirers Jerry Wexler, Bod Dylan, Elvis Costello, and Joe "King" Carrasco? Nothing about Douglas Wayne Sahm is quite what it appears to be.
Born in San Antonio on November 6, 1941, Sahm descended from "squareheads", as the German settlers who contributed the accordion to border music are known in Texas: at the turn of the century his grandfather had what Sahm calls "a German oom-pah-pah band".
Doug himself started playing tripleneck steel guitar at the tender age of six. When he was nine, his father began taking him to local joints like The Barns to see stars like Webb Pierce, Hank Williams and Bob Wills. " I used to watch the steel players", he grins. "Before I even had a guitar I took a box and drew strings on it, and when the radio would come on with fifteen minutes of country bands I'd fantasize that I was playing the steel over the radio".
By his teens he was past-fantasy, gigging around in local bar bands on guitar and fiddle, playing the time's typical stew of r&b stompers, rockabilly rave-ups, roadhouse blues, and Western-swing and two step rhythms. Sahm recalls, "I was listening to Hank Ballard and Chuck Berry, Webb Pierce and Howlin' Wolf, The Drifters and Hank Williams and Johnny Ace, all that '50s stuff. Little Richard was my favorite. The music really incensed a lot of parents, although it wasn't very racial at all. The east side of San Antonio, where I grew up, was predominantly black then -now it's all black-. San Antonio's very racially mixed, always has been; the older people mix really well. So parents just knew there was something in that black music that the kids loved. They had no idea what was coming". Neither did the kids themselves, "When I saw Elvis in '56 it just blew my mind. I put the pompadour up, got in front of the mirror, and started to practice shaking".
Taken from The Best Of Doug Sahm & The Sir Douglas Quintet's booklet, (Mercury, 1990) by Gene Santoro.
A Lone Star original with a German surname, an Edwardian suit, a Beatles haircut, a loving knowledge of the blues and r&b, Western swing and Tex-Mex sounds, a voice like a flayed and tanned hide, a deliriously eclectic bag of tunes, a bare handful of nationally charting hits, and a cult that includes admirers Jerry Wexler, Bod Dylan, Elvis Costello, and Joe "King" Carrasco? Nothing about Douglas Wayne Sahm is quite what it appears to be.
Born in San Antonio on November 6, 1941, Sahm descended from "squareheads", as the German settlers who contributed the accordion to border music are known in Texas: at the turn of the century his grandfather had what Sahm calls "a German oom-pah-pah band".
Doug himself started playing tripleneck steel guitar at the tender age of six. When he was nine, his father began taking him to local joints like The Barns to see stars like Webb Pierce, Hank Williams and Bob Wills. " I used to watch the steel players", he grins. "Before I even had a guitar I took a box and drew strings on it, and when the radio would come on with fifteen minutes of country bands I'd fantasize that I was playing the steel over the radio".
By his teens he was past-fantasy, gigging around in local bar bands on guitar and fiddle, playing the time's typical stew of r&b stompers, rockabilly rave-ups, roadhouse blues, and Western-swing and two step rhythms. Sahm recalls, "I was listening to Hank Ballard and Chuck Berry, Webb Pierce and Howlin' Wolf, The Drifters and Hank Williams and Johnny Ace, all that '50s stuff. Little Richard was my favorite. The music really incensed a lot of parents, although it wasn't very racial at all. The east side of San Antonio, where I grew up, was predominantly black then -now it's all black-. San Antonio's very racially mixed, always has been; the older people mix really well. So parents just knew there was something in that black music that the kids loved. They had no idea what was coming". Neither did the kids themselves, "When I saw Elvis in '56 it just blew my mind. I put the pompadour up, got in front of the mirror, and started to practice shaking".
Taken from The Best Of Doug Sahm & The Sir Douglas Quintet's booklet, (Mercury, 1990) by Gene Santoro.
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Genres:
60s Rock
Hometown:
San Antonio, Texas
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