More than a decade ago, a grassroots effort to push for the late San Antonio musical giant Doug Sahm’s nomination for the Rock and Roll Hall of fame died quietly. But now, on the strength of famed ...

Joe Nick Patoski has accomplished much in his 64 years. He has worked at Rolling Stone magazine, Texas Monthly and written books about Willie Nelson, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Selena Quintanilla and the ...

If the Texas music scene ever had a soul, it belonged to Doug Sahm, the leader of the Sir Douglas Quintet who passed away ten years ago Wednesday. It didn’t matter whether he was knee-deep in the ...

SAN ANTONIO — The Doug Sahm story comes to life tonight at the Guadalupe Theater with the screening of music journalist Joe Nick Patoski’s acclaimed documentary “Sir Doug and the Genuine Texas Cosmic ...

Doug Sahm would’ve turned 74 today. Happy birthday, Sir Doug — a Groover’s Paradise is in store this weekend. The folks at the South Texas Popular Culture Center decided to celebrate it with a bunch ...

The 38th Mill Valley Film Festival, which opened last night and runs through Oct. 18, shines a much-deserved and long overdue spotlight on the late Doug Sahm, one of the unsung heroes of American ...

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Three kings: (l-r) Jerry Jeff Walker, Roky Erickson, and Doug Sahm perform at Margaret Moser’s private birthday party bash on May 16, 1977, at Gemini’s Club on Guadalupe. Credit: Photo by Ken Hoge As ...

Doug Sahm, who has been referred to as the “the father of Americana music,” was honored Wednesday night at the Austin Music Awards. Along with an award presentation, a performance from fellow Texan ...

Remember that line about always wearing clean underwear in case you get hit by a car? Well, that old saw also applies to unfinished and unreleased recordings left behind by deceased musical artists.

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 ...

Author of definitive biographies on Lone Star landmarks Selena, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and Willie Nelson, longtime local music scribe Joe Nick Patoski now debuts as a filmmaker with Sir Doug & the ...