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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Johnny Perez came out of San Antonio as the drummer of the 1960s band Sir Douglas Quintet, which had hits with 'She's About a Mover" and "Mendocino." Perez landed in Topanga Canyon and more recently ...

MENDOCINO TOGETHER AFTER FIVE ALL ACADIA San Antonio's Sir Doug was christened during the British Invasion but never let too much beat bother him, aside from the catchy "She's About A Mover". With his ...

A couple of years ago, when New West began raiding the vaults of Austin City Limits, it was the anticipation of vintage shows such as these from three Texas legends that was truly exciting. Willie ...

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 ...