{"id":7049,"date":"2016-02-12T07:00:35","date_gmt":"2016-02-12T13:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/?p=7049"},"modified":"2016-02-08T13:06:45","modified_gmt":"2016-02-08T19:06:45","slug":"the-texas-groover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/2016\/02\/12\/the-texas-groover\/","title":{"rendered":"The Texas Groover"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“You just can’t live in Texas if you don’t have a lot of soul.”-Doug Sahm<\/p>\n

The first time I ever heard the music of Doug Sahm it was on a box set<\/a> of one hit wonders of 60\u2019s garage rock. It featured a hit from his band, The Sir Douglas Quintet<\/a>. I would only find out years later that the genre busting career of Sir Doug could not be described in the allotted 2:25 seconds given to him on that box set.<\/p>\n

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Doug Sahm meeting Hank Williams at age 11<\/p><\/div>\n

Doug Sahm (1941-1999) was a multi-instrumentalist\/recording artist from San Antonio. He was drawn to music at a young age and quickly became a steel guitar prodigy<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On December 19, 1952, at eleven years old, he played on stage with Hank Williams Sr. at the Skyline Club in Austin in what would be Hank\u2019s last show before his death two weeks later.<\/p>\n

Next, the Grand Ole Opry offered Doug Sahm a spot, but his mother refused to let him go, wanting him to finish school instead. Doug continued to play clubs in Texas and in 1965, started his first successful band, The Sir Douglas Quintet. This mostly rock\u00a0band came up with their name in an attempt to capitalize on the British Invasion despite their thick Texan accents and the fact that two of them were Hispanic. Their top hit, \u201cShe\u2019s About a Mover\u201d reached the U.S. Top 20.<\/p>\n