Johnny Perez, drummer for legendary ’60s Texas garage-rockers the Sir Douglas Quintet, has died. Perez passed away in a hospital near Los Angeles due to complications of cirrhosis of the liver, ...

Tonight at the Continental Club, Austin’s Freddie Steady 5 will head up a tribute to the late Doug Sahm focusing on Sahm’s 2000 album The Return of Wayne Douglas, which he recorded only a few months ...

Doug Sahm a/k/a Sir Doug was both a Texas rock & roll legend and pioneer. True, there were others before him (Buddy Holly and Roy Orbison come to mind), but the Sir Douglas Quintet counterattacked the ...

The Quintet, headed by San Anto native Doug Sahm and known for the instantly distinguishable organ sound of Augie Meyers’ Vox Continental, have had their first hit single, “She’s About a Mover,” named ...

It’s not that Sahm is unknown. His work with the Tejano supergroup The Texas Tornados (along with SDQ’s organ player Augie Meyers, Flaco Jimenez and Freddy Fender) helped define and expand the canon ...

There are few figures in country music as influential and perhaps as underappreciated in modern culture as Doug Sahm, who changed the climate of the genre when he fused psychedelic San Francisco rock ...

Late Texas Tornado Doug Sahm caught shit from the fans back in 70 for 1+1+1 = 4 because it veered so drastically from the predictable Farfisa-fired party platters Sir Doug had been cutting during the ...

The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame's neglect notwithstanding, Douglas Wayne Sahm is music history, Texas and otherwise. Rock & roll hippie, country outlaw, R&B hepcat, Tex-Mex pollinator, jazz linguist, ...

Takes summer to finish spring cleaning in Austin. Do the math. Music biz is closed January/February, opens in March for South by Southwest, and by June, Austin’s Top 10 albums had already been ...

A new era is born.

Johnny Perez, drummer on the Sir Douglas Quintet's biggest hits and an accomplished songwriter collaborating on hit songs with Joe “King” Carrasco, has died. Perez was 69. He died Tuesday at a Topanga ...

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 ...