With a tribute album coming Tuesday (March 24), the late Doug Sahm was the subject of two live homage's this week at South By Southwest. By Gary Graff With a tribute album coming Tuesday (March 24), ...

LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Collectors' Choice Music travels back in time to re-release recordings by two Texas artists linked by geography and era. Doug Sahm was the kingpin of the Sir Douglas Quintet ...

It’s best to say it straightaway: Jay Farrar is a legend. Along with Jeff Tweedy of Wilco, he co-founded the critically acclaimed band Uncle Tupelo during the late 1980s in the middle-American locale ...

Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia had a dalliance with the pedal steel guitar for a period of time spanning April 1969 until around 1974. During that time, Garcia recorded one of the best-known ...

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 ...

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 ...

Author of definitive biographies on Lone Star landmarks Selena, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and Willie Nelson, longtime local music scribe Joe Nick Patoski now debuts as a filmmaker with Sir Doug & the ...

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 ...

Shawn Sahm, looking eerily like his father (as always), and Steve Earle, 3.21.15 Credit: Jana Birchum “If y’all can’t get in the groove tonight, you’d better just go back to where you came from,” ...

The debut film from Texas music writer Joe Nick Patoski, documentary Sir Doug and the Genuine Texas Cosmic Groove tells the story of legendary musician Doug Sahm, whose Sir Douglas Quintet was ...

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.