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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 1970, I worked at Rolling Stone magazine and got to know Doug Sahm, the eccentric Texas rocker and leader of the Sir Douglas Quintet. He was living in Marin County, Calif., but was uneasy living in ...