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 ...

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 ...

The Houston 100 continues. Follow the links for numbers 61-70, 71-80, 81-90 and 91-100. 60. “The Rains Came,” Sir Douglas Quintet, 1965. The follow-up single to “She’s About a Mover,” this Huey Meaux ...

Sid Griffin of the Long Ryders dives deep into Texas rockin' blues to channel the Sir Douglas Quintet with Jools and the band!Sid Griffin of the Long Ryders dives deep into Texas rockin' blues to ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...