Delbert McClinton politely invokes the ineffable when it comes to describing the Texas singer, songwriter and all-around protean figure Doug Sahm, who died in 1999. "The thing about Doug is that, if ...

SAN ANTONIO — The crowd was so large that about one-third of the estimated 1,000 mourners had to huddle around an underequipped Peavy speaker outside. But even more impressive than the large turnout ...

Son Volt’s new album, “Day of the Doug,” which they’ll heavily feature in concerts this year, is completely centered on the songs of the late Doug Sahm. It’s a passion project that Son Volt founder ...

Doug Sahm was the kingpin of the Sir Douglas Quintet plus two latter-day bands -- Sir Doug & Band and the Sir Douglas Band. fever tree, from Houston, was often mistaken for a Haight-Ashbury San ...

Listen to Doug Sahm sing and play guitar, fiddle, or piano, and you’ll learn all you need to know about country, rock, blues, conjunto, Cajun, and other indigenous sounds, how they are part and parcel ...

A boy's plaid Western shirt bumps up against a row of rock 'n' roll radio-station Top 40 lists from the '60s, a business card from a long-gone South Side beauty shop and a small red date book. The ...

When Jay Farrar was preparing Day Of The Doug, Son Volt’s 2023 tribute album to Doug Sahm, he turned to the Complete Mercury Recordings. The 5CD set covering Sahm’s work with the Sir Douglas Quintet ...

It wasn’t quite subterfuge, and it wasn’t exactly a scam. But during the mid-‘60s any band that smacked of the British Invasion was hot and sure to get attention. So, a number of, um, decidedly ...

Rick Broussard proudly claims San Antonio/Seguin/Austin citizenship. When he opens his new disc with I Cried and Cried the Day Doug Sahm Died, he's not pandering; he's expressing deep-felt emotions ...

Bob Dylan and San Antonio’s Doug Sahm in action, recording the 1973 album Doug Sahm and Band in New York City. Credit: Courtesy A young man with an imagined name in an ill-advised corduroy hat. A ...

In his round X-ray specs and solar-system button-up, Garrett T. Capps looks like he’s just emerged from the farthest reaches of outer space. The San Antonio musician sounds like it, too. Since forming ...