L-R: Doug Sahm - vocals, guitars, fiddle, arrangements Augie Meyers - organ Johnny Perez - drums Jack Barber - bass Frank Morin - saxophone, percussion, harmony vocals Huey Meaux died a week ago today (April 23, to be precise) at the age of 82, the last 15 years of which were spent behind bars. […]
Read MoreSuperchunk‘s videos are uniformly excellent, but this new “Crossed Wires” vid might be the funniest one of the bunch. Laura Ballance’s cat is having himself a full-on Sammy Hagar Weekend. In fact, you might say the kitty is a felonious monster. HOL-LA! CHECK IT Superchunk’s badass video page Crowding Up Your Visual Field - Superchunk’s […]
Read More“When Charles (Bradley) came to that (first) rehearsal and Gabe (Roth) introduced us to each other 8 or 9 years ago, I think that it was a really small group, it was like a 4-piece group. And I think we all kinda got the chills when Charles grabbed the mic and started singing. It’s pretty […]
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Huey Meaux loved to say that he came up with the idea for the Sir Douglas Quintet while holed up in a San Antonio motel armed with nothing but Beatles records, Thunderbird wine, and underage Mexican hookers. His drunkpiphany was that The Beatles were basically playing a variation on the Cajun two-step, with a similar […]
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Merle Haggard is certainly one of America’s greatest singers and songwriters, but the secret weapon throughout his career has been an army of guitar badasses. Roy Nichols, James Burton, Glen Campbell, Roy Buchanan, Eldon Shamblin, Ronnie Reno, Bobby Wayne, Redd Volkaert, Ralph Mooney, Norman Hamlet, let alone Merle himself. It’s a veritable roll call of […]
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