This week we’re taking a look back at a songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, musician, and performer who helped to enlighten a younger set to Tex Mex music, even making inroads into the sixties San Francisco ‘summer of love’ with a top 20 hit in 1965. Considered a child prodigy, he would appear on the Louisiana Hayride by the age of eight and would find his influences in blues, country, r&b, and conjunto sounds from across the border. Our retrospective will feature contemporaries and music from his close-knit cadre of compadres that would go on to form a sort-of supergroup called The Texas Tornados. Tune in on a Spring morning in April for a collection of pure Americana treats from Texas as we overlook (for a brief two hours) its abhorrent decline into a state of hate and anti-democratic principles.
| No. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Artist | Title | Album | Buy |
| 2 | Doug Sahm | (Is Anybody Going To) San Antone | Best of Sir Douglas 68-75 |  |
| 3 | Doug Sahm & The Knights | Crazy Daisy | Wild Streak, Vol. 1 | |
| 4 | Sir Douglas Quintet | She's About A Mover | Best Of Sir Douglas Quintet | |
| 5 | Sir Douglas Quintet | The Rains Came | Best Of Sir Douglas Quintet | |
| 6 | Sir Douglas Quintet | Mendocino | Best of Sir Douglas 68-75 | |
| 7 | Freddie Fender | Before the Next Teardrop Falls | Classic Country 1975 – 1979 | |
| 8 | Doug Sahm | It's Gonna Be Easy | Complete Atlantic Recordings Disc 1 | |
| 9 | Doug Sahm | Faded Love | Complete Atlantic Recordings Disc 1 | |
| 10 | Frank Black | Sunday Sunny Mill Valley Groove Day | Honeycomb | |
| 11 | The Texas Tornados | Little Bit Is Better Than Nada | 4 Aces | |
| 12 | The Texas Tornados | Who Were You Thinkin' Of | The Best Of Texas Tornados | |
| 13 | The Texas Tornados | Wasted Days And Wasted Nights | The Best Of Texas Tornados | |
| 14 | Jerry Lee Lewis | The Revolutionary Man | Southern Roots | |
| 15 | Townes Van Zandt | Pancho & Lefty (with Freddy Fender, Rubin Ramos & The Texas Revolution, Doug Sahm & Augie Meyer) | Texas Rain | |
| 16 | Amos Garrett, Doug Sahm & Gene Taylor | Big Mamou | The Return of the Formerly Brothers | |
| 17 | Amos Garrett, Doug Sahm & Gene Taylor | Smack Dab in the Middle | The Return of the Formerly Brothers | |
| 18 | The Mavericks | Nitty Gritty (Bonus Track) | Mono | |
| 19 | Uncle Tupelo | Give Back The Key To My Heart (feat. Doug Sahm) | Anodyne | |
| 20 | Dwight Yoakam/Flaco Jimenez | Carmelita | Reprise Please Baby: The Warner Bros. Years Disc 2 | |
| 21 | Flaco Jiminez | The Girls From Texas featuring Ry Cooder (Album Version) | Partners | |
| 22 | Flaco Jiminez | Las Golondrinas (Album Version) | Partners | |
| 23 | Augie Meyers | Matilda | Trippin Out On Triplets | |
| 24 | Dave Alvin | Dynamite Woman | Keep Your Soul: A Tribute To Doug Sahm | |
| 25 | Los Lobos | It Didn't Even Bring Me Down | Keep Your Soul: A Tribute To Doug Sahm | |
| 26 | Delbert McClinton | Texas Me | Keep Your Soul: A Tribute To Doug Sahm | |
| 27 | The Gourds | Nuevo Laredo | Keep Your Soul: A Tribute To Doug Sahm | |
| 28 | Freda and the Firedogs | Be Real | Keep Your Soul: A Tribute To Doug Sahm | |
| 29 | Doug Sahm | Crazy Crazy Baby | The San Antonio Hipster | |
| 30 | Doug Sahm | Sunday Sunny Mill Valley Groove Day | Best of Sir Douglas 68-75 | |
| 31 | The Texas Tornados | Soy De San Luis | Texas Tornados | |