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 ...

To say that Huey Meaux was a complicated man is an epic understatement, but one guy who prefers to remember only the good in the late Crazy Cajun is Augie Meyers, keyboardist in the Sir Douglas ...

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 ...

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 ...

Doug Sahm a/k/a Sir Doug was both a Texas rock & roll legend and pioneer. True, there were others before him (Buddy Holly and Roy Orbison come to mind), but the Sir Douglas Quintet counterattacked the ...

Grammy-awarded music icon Augie Meyers passed away peacefully in his sleep on Saturday, March 7, at the age of 85. His wife, Sara, was by his side, as confirmed by a post on his Facebook page: "Augie ...

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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 ...

A couple of years ago, when New West began raiding the vaults of Austin City Limits, it was the anticipation of vintage shows such as these from three Texas legends that was truly exciting. Willie ...

Augie Meyers, a Texas-based musician and founding member of the Sir Douglas Quintet and the Texas Tornadoes, has died, according to a statement on his Facebook page. He was 85. The statement ...

Late Texas Tornado Doug Sahm caught shit from the fans back in 70 for 1+1+1 = 4 because it veered so drastically from the predictable Farfisa-fired party platters Sir Doug had been cutting during the ...

Meet Andy Sachs. A million girls would kill to have her job. She's not one of them.