Best of Doug Sahm & The Sir Douglas Quintet 68-75

by Doug Sahm

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Produced for CD by Greg Greller.

During his lifetime, Doug Sahm came to embody Texas music. Under various guises (Sir Douglas Quintet, Texas Tornados, and Wayne Douglas to name a few), Sahm mastered every conceivable form of Lone Star roots music, from blues and country to Western Swing and Tejano. THE BEST OF DOUG SAHM & THE SIR DOUGLAS QUINTET 68-75 offers 22 tracks of the singer/songwriter/guitarist in his absolute prime.

Listening to Sir Doug front the Quintet on "Mendocino" and "Sunday Sunny Mill Valley Grove Day," it's clear that, while Sahm and his band (which boasted, among others, the incomparable Augie Meyers on keyboards) were steeped in C&W, blues, and Tex-Mex, they could effortlessly translate those forms into groovin' 1960s rock & roll. Given the brief time span this collection covers, BEST OF 68-75 is by no means definitive, and the Quintet's signature song, the garage-rock classic "She's About a Mover," is unfortunately absent. Still, tracks like the beautifully mournful "At the Crossroads," the mid-tempo, hippie lope "I Wanna Be Your Mama Again," and Sham's ragged take on the Charlie Pride hit "San Antone, (Is Anybody Going To)" are so soulful and so fun that the collection remains a must-have for music lovers across the board.