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 ...

It wasn’t quite subterfuge, and it wasn’t exactly a scam. But during the mid-‘60s any band that smacked of the British Invasion was hot and sure to get attention. So, a number of, um, decidedly ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Augie Meyers, the Texas musician whose organ playing defined the sounds of the Sir Douglas Quintet and the Texas Tornados, as well ...

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 ...