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The first biography of the Sir Douglas Quintet and Texas Tornados founder Doug Sahm, a rock and roll innovator whose Grammy Award–winning career spanned five decades from the late 1940s to 1999.

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"Doug was like me, maybe the only figure from that period of time that I connected with. His was a big soul. He had a hit record, 'She's About a Mover,' and I had a hit record ['Like a Rolling Stone'] at the same time. So we became buddies back then" Bob Dylan

Table of Contents
  • Prologue: A Real American Joe
  • Chapter 1: A Cajun Two-Step Tex-Mex Polka
  • Chapter 2: Song and Dance Men
  • Chapter 3: Summers of Love
  • Chapter 4: The Real Old Texas Me
  • Chapter 5: Crossroads
  • Chapter 6: Austin after Dark
  • Chapter 7: The Coast-to-Coast All-Star Bands
  • Chapter 8: Are We a Group?
  • Chapter 9: Soap Creek
  • Chapter 10: Groovers Paradise
  • Chapter 11: Country Boogie
  • Chapter 12: Sometimes I Cry
  • Chapter 13: Wanderlust
  • Chapter 14: Borderlands
  • Epilogue: Guitar Slim
  • Selected Discography
  • Index

Texas Tornado The Times and Music of Doug Sahm

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      Publisher: University of Texas Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/02/2010
      ISBN13: 9780292722446, 978-0292722446
      ISBN10: 0292722443

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The first biography of the Sir Douglas Quintet and Texas Tornados founder Doug Sahm, a rock and roll innovator whose Grammy Award–winning career spanned five decades from the late 1940s to 1999.

      Trade Review
      "Doug was like me, maybe the only figure from that period of time that I connected with. His was a big soul. He had a hit record, 'She's About a Mover,' and I had a hit record ['Like a Rolling Stone'] at the same time. So we became buddies back then" Bob Dylan

      Table of Contents
      • Prologue: A Real American Joe
      • Chapter 1: A Cajun Two-Step Tex-Mex Polka
      • Chapter 2: Song and Dance Men
      • Chapter 3: Summers of Love
      • Chapter 4: The Real Old Texas Me
      • Chapter 5: Crossroads
      • Chapter 6: Austin after Dark
      • Chapter 7: The Coast-to-Coast All-Star Bands
      • Chapter 8: Are We a Group?
      • Chapter 9: Soap Creek
      • Chapter 10: Groovers Paradise
      • Chapter 11: Country Boogie
      • Chapter 12: Sometimes I Cry
      • Chapter 13: Wanderlust
      • Chapter 14: Borderlands
      • Epilogue: Guitar Slim
      • Selected Discography
      • Index

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