I know a great deal about Doug Sahm.  Originally a
child prodigy in Austin(I believe), Texas, he was playing gigs at like
13 on Pedal Steel Guitar.  In the 60's musical revolution, with a
background in Blues, Country, Tex-Mex and a variety of other music
including good old R+R, he went to norhern CA and formed a band, The Sir
Douglas Quintet, which had a few hits in the 60's like, "She's About a
Mover" and "Mendocino".  In 72 he had found his way back to texas and
recorded a record with old friend Augie Meyers, Bob Dylan, Dr. John,
David Bromberg and many other major artists of the day, and featured
everything from Blues to Country, with a Duet with Dylan.  He kicked
around and toured with a group called "Doug Sahm and the Texas
Tornadoes" in the 70's.  The Drummer from Creedence Clearwater joined
the band, and they put on a pretty good show, or they did about 76 that
I saw.  Doug didn't play much outside of Texas, until the formation of
"The Texas Tornadoes" with Freddy Fender and Augie Meyers in the late
80's.  They toured quite a bit, and were pretty good.  Doug Passed away
a year or 2 ago, after returning to his old blues roots music.

Maybe this helps, it's just from memory.  There is a 3 cd set from 1972
that is usually labeled among Deadheads as Jerry Garcia, Kreutzman, Leon
Russell, and Doug Sahm is listed at the bottom.  It was really a Doug
Sahm gig that Jerry and Billy sat in on one Thanksgiving night when they
were in Texas and a night off from touring.

Keith
Keith Bode [t.tunakebo@verizon.net]
Fri 12/14/2001