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Sir Douglas Quintet – Austin City Limits Video
Wanted to share this video of the late great Doug Sahm and the Sir Douglas Quintet. Doug, Augie Myers and Johnny Perez from the original group were joined by Austin (and Semitough) favorite Alvin Crow and Speedy Sparks for this ACL performance in 1981. That’s my man Alvin in the red & white cutoff western shirt. This was back in…
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Scooby Doo Meets Hunter S. Thompson
Out surfing the Googletubes, you know visiting the usual suspects, when I stumble across this bit of humor over at Iowahawk’s tubespace. Seems the late great shoot-my-cold-dead-ashes-out-of-a-cannon prototype gonzo journalist did some work for Hanna-Barbera: We were ten minutes south of San Clemente when the putrid green daisy walls of the van started closing in. I recall the fat four-eyed…
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Two Ton Tuesday
Was looking for a subject for a Tuesday post and came across this great video over at Youtube (which at this point does not support WordPress). The video was filmed at Gruene Hall (pronounced “Green”), Texas’ oldest dance hall which I mentioned in last week’s Thursday Thirteen. The band is called “Two Tons of Steel” and they have a great Buck Owens,…
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Country Singer Johnny Duncan Dies at 67
Read the sad news today that Johnny Duncan, country singer extraordinaire, has passed away of a heart attack at the too early age of 67. A great loss for Texas music. Johnny had been semiretired, living on his Stephenville, TX ranch for some time, but was still active in country music having released his latest album in 2004. Esposa…
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