“I first met (Bob Dylan) in ’65. We’ve had a friendship for a long time. He decided to play on a record I was making in New York. We were just friends playing together.” –Doug Sahm to Jim Groenenwegen and Bill Bentley, Austin Sun, 1975 “Doug had a hit record (“She’s About A Mover”) […]
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Browsed the latest Austin Chronicle today and stumbled over this eyecatcher in Austin Powell’s “Off The Record” column: “Doug was like me, maybe the only figure from that old period of time that I connected with. I’d never met anybody that had played onstage with Hank Williams before, let alone someone my own age. Doug […]
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The Adios Lounge would be remiss if it didn’t acknowledge the passing of Jerry Wexler, who died Friday at the age of 91. I’ve often said that if I could live anyone else’s life in history, I’d live Jerry Wexler’s. He coined the phrase “rhythm and blues” while writing for Billboard. He helped create rock […]
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Does the singer catch the song or does the song catch the singer? Blind Lemon Jefferson, writer of “See That My Grave Is Kept Clean,” hit with the tune on separate recordings in 1927 and 1928, but was dead of unknown causes by 1929. I like to think that maybe the song was trying to […]
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