The Return of Wayne Douglas
Olav Nilsen
16.01.2015
Nedstrippa og sjelfull countrymusikk av den gamle sorten, langt fra store hatter, hockeysveis, trange jeans og arenaer med laser og røyk.
Doug Sahm åpner med "Beautiful Texas Sunshine" på dette albumet som skulle bli hans siste, en låt og et album som hyller hjemstaten og countrymusikken.
Han har med seg et knippe utmerkede musikere på ståbass, steelgitar og fele som kan sin Lefty Frizzell og Hank Williams. Platen inneholder kjente låter som "Dallas Alice" og "Texas me" samt en utmerket versjon av Dylans "Love Minus Zero/No Limit".
San Antonios Doug Sahm var en levende jukebox fra han startet sin karriere som 9 åring og til han døde på et motellrom i New Mexico i 1999.
En Lone Star hipster med langt hår og skinnskjegg som spilte cosmic country, Tex-Mex, polka, blues eller psykedelisk rock alt etter dagsformen.
En unik artist som avsluttet med en av sine aller beste album "The Return of Wayne Douglas".
Adios Doug
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Douglas Sahm
Douglas Wayne Sahm was born November 6, 1941, in San Antonio, Texas. Considered to be a prodigy on steel-guitar, mandolin, and fiddle, he made his radio debut at age five singing "Teardrops In My Heart" on station KMAC in San Antonio. This was followed by two years of radio appearances on the Mutual network. He became a featured player on the Louisiana Hayride country radio program by age eight. Known as Little Doug Sahm, he would often sit in at live performances of such greats as Webb Pierce, Hank Thompson and Faron Young. In December, 1952, Hank Williams took Doug on stage in Austin, Texas, less than two weeks before Williams's death.
About his pre-teen days, Doug wrote, "Across a plowed field from my house was a place called Eastwood Country Club. On any given night you had T-Bone Walker, Junior Parker, The Bobby 'Blue' Bland Review, Hank Ballard and James Brown... At about twelve or thirteen years old, my neighbor, Homer Callahan, a red-headed Irishman who loved to fight and listen to Howlin' Wolf, would bring over these great 45's with colorful labels like Excello, Atlantic, and Specialty, and dudes like Lonesome Sundown, Jimmy Reed, and Fats Domino. My mother, bless her soul, couldn't understand the profound effect these records had on her white son who was growing up fast in the predominantly black section of San Antone... Bear in mind, these weren't ghettos with crime filled streets, but for a white boy to be accepted at The Ebony Lounge was like being signed to the New York Yankees."
As a teenager, Sahm was offered a regular spot on the Grand Ol' Opry in Nashville, but his mother decided that he should stay in his home town and finish junior high school. Doug released a number of singles on various local record labels, beginning at age eleven with "A Real American Joe" backed with "Rollin' Rollin'" for Sarg Records. He fronted several bands during his high school years, including the Pharaohs, the Dell-Kings, and the Markays.
Doug met Augie Meyers, (b. May 31, 1941) the son of a local grocer, around 1953 when he and his parents came by the Meyers' store on East Houston St. in the San Antonio suberb of St. Hedwig. Augie had learned to play guitar and piano as a way to overcome polio-induced immobility in his hands and had his own band, the Goldens.
Les fortsettelsen her: Kilde: Joseph Levy
