Call for Feature Essays About Any Aspect of Popular Culture, Present or Past

About|Submissions|Advertising|Staff|

|

|

Kindle

|

PopMatters

Special Sections

Short Ends and Leader

Notes from the Road

Channel Surfing

Graphic Novelties

Marginal Utility

Capsule Reviews

Television Home

Multimedia Home

Moving Citations

Home>Music>Blogs>Mixed Media>Doug Sahm | The Sir Douglas Quintet | The Texas Tornados

This Week in Pop Past: Doug Sahm Passed Away (video)

Bookmark and Share

Text:A A A

Tuesday, Nov 17, 2009

10 years ago this week: Leading Tex-Mex music figure Doug Sahm passed away at the young age of 58. In the ‘60s he founded the cult favorite the Sir Douglas Quintet and later in his career he teamed with Augie Meyers, Freddy Fender, and Flaco Jimenez for the Mexican-infused country of the Texas Tornados.

Doug Sahm on Austin City Limits

The Sir Douglas Quintet

The Texas Tornados

Tagged as: doug sahm | sir douglas quintet | texas tornados

Related Articles

Doug Sahm: Son of San Antonio: The Roots of Sir Douglas

By Barbara Flaska

10 Sep 2001

Comments

Now on PopMatters

Mitt Romney Can Reside at Today's Proverbial 'Downton Abbey'... Newt Gingrich Cannot

Mental Pop & Beyoncé Beats: An Interview with Liam Finn

Deep Focus: Film Archiving: The Importance of Enlightening Those Audiences Sitting in the Dark

Mixed Media: Vinyl Factory's Remix of Roxy Music's "Love Is the Drug" and "Avalon"

Sound Affects: Something to Brag About: An Interview with Deer Tick

Short Ends and Leader: The 10 Greatest Shakespeare Film Adaptations of All Time

Moving Pixels: 'Driver: San Francisco' and 'Drive'

Paul McCartney: Kisses on the Bottom

Trailer Trash Tracys: Ester

Rodrigo Y gabriela and C.U.B.A: Area 52

Tim Berne: Snakeoil

The Unguided: Hell Frost

Matt Haimowitz / Christopher O’Riley: Shuffle.Play.Listen

Twin Sister: 29 January 2012 - Austin, TX

'Unfinished Spaces' Revisits Cuba's Schools of Art

'Doomsday Preppers': Planning for the End of Times

'The River': Secrets and Allusions

Vincent Gallo Is a Taliban Insurgent on the Run in 'Essential Killing'

D.W. Griffith's Morality Tale, 'Way Down East', has One of the Greatest Movie Finalés, Ever

The Magician Inside Us All: Sleights of Mind'

Wither the Monarchy: 'Elizabeth the Queen'

Becky Cloonan's Smile: Dark Horse's Reboot of "Conan"

Van Halen gets with the times

Roberta Flack’s first album in 13 years covers Beatles classics

Grammys 2012: Adele is poised for Grammy coronation

Netflix’s first original series stars Steven Van Zandt as a New York mobster

Vinyl Factory's Remix of Roxy Music's "Love Is the Drug" and "Avalon" (Mixed Media) [Tue, 4:15 pm]

Sinead O'Connor Releases Video for New Single, "The Wolf Is Getting Married" (Mixed Media) [Tue, 2:15 pm]

Azure Blue Harkens Back to the '80s with "Seasons" (Mixed Media) [Tue, 12:15 pm]

Van Halen gets with the times (PopWire) [Tue, 11:35 am]

Stream a Tune from the Rekindled Vince Clarke/Martin Gore Partnership (Mixed Media) [Tue, 11:15 am]

Something to Brag About: An Interview with Deer Tick (Sound Affects) [Tue, 11:00 am]

Roberta Flack’s first album in 13 years covers Beatles classics (PopWire) [Tue, 10:35 am]

Grammys 2012: Adele is poised for Grammy coronation (PopWire) [Tue, 9:35 am]

House of Blondes - "Come Running" Video (PopMatters Premiere) (Mixed Media) [Tue, 9:15 am]

The 10 Greatest Shakespeare Film Adaptations of All Time (Short Ends and Leader) [Tue, 9:00 am]

Netflix’s first original series stars Steven Van Zandt as a New York mobster (PopWire) [Tue, 8:34 am]

'Unfinished Spaces' Revisits Cuba's Schools of Art (Reviews) [Tue, 8:15 am]

'Doomsday Preppers': Planning for the End of Times (Reviews) [Tue, 8:04 am]

Terrific 'Freedom Riders' Will Rebroadcast on PBS 7 February (Mixed Media) [Tue, 8:00 am]

'The River': Secrets and Allusions (Reviews) [Tue, 7:56 am]

'Driver: San Francisco' and 'Drive' (Moving Pixels) [Tue, 7:00 am]

Becky Cloonan's Smile: Dark Horse's Reboot of "Conan" (Reviews) [Tue, 6:20 am]

Mitt Romney Can Reside at Today's Proverbial 'Downton Abbey'... Newt Gingrich Cannot (Features) [Tue, 1:00 am]

Film Archiving: The Importance of Enlightening Those Audiences Sitting in the Dark (Columns) [Tue, 1:00 am]

Mental Pop & Beyoncé Beats: An Interview with Liam Finn (Features) [Tue, 1:00 am]

'Touch': The First Episode Is Stunningly Effective (Reviews)
The Hidden Mythos of 'Police Academy' (Features)
Batman Is Boring in ‘Arkham City’ (Columns)
Slipped Discs 2011 - Part 1: From 13Ghosts to Friendly Fires (Features)
10 Songs That Will Make You Love U2 (Sound Affects)
The Best Games of 2011 (Features)
'Amy' Is a Horror Game That Is Broken in All the Right Ways (Moving Pixels)
Counterbalance No. 66: Carole King’s 'Tapestry' (Sound Affects)
Not-So-Central Casting: Kevin Smith and the Birth of the Reality Podcast (Features)
Slipped Discs 2011 - Part 2: From the Go! Team to the Phoenix Foundation (Features)
Slipped Discs 2011 - Part 3: From Real Estate to Youth Lagoon (Features)
Different Flavored Skulls: An Intimate Chat with the Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne (Features)
'Nebraska': Bruce Springsteen's 'Heart of Darkness' (Columns)
The 10 Greatest Movie Spies Ever (Short Ends and Leader)
Lana Del Rey: Born to Die (Reviews)
Lamb of God: Resolution (Reviews)
Make-Believe Rock Star: An Interview with Anthony Green (Features)
'Library After Air Raid': On the Survival of Culture Amid the Barbarity of War (Columns)
The Future Is a Faded Song: Douglas Rushkoff on the Groundbreaking "ADD" (Features)
Get Off of My Cloud!: 'Collecting' Music in the Digital Age (Features)
Alcest: Les Voyages De L'Âme (Reviews)
Leonard Cohen: Old Ideas (Reviews)
Paul McCartney: The Family Way (Soundtrack) (Reviews)
Google and the Production of Curiosity (Marginal Utility)
Carole E. Barrowman’s Authorial Journey to Hollow Earth (Features)
Tower Songs: Townes Van Zandt (Columns)
Circling the Sun Machine: Re-thinking David Bowie’s 'Space Oddity' (Features)
Black Bananas: Rad Times Xpress IV (Reviews)
The Gay Ole Countryside (Columns)
'Namath': Broadway Joe Looks Back (Reviews)

The Best TV Performances of 2011

PM Picks

Music Archive

Announcements

Call for Papers: Dickens 200: Readings and Re-readings

Call for Feature Essays About Any Aspect of Popular Culture, Present or Past

Call for Blah, Blah Bloggers

Call for Music Critics and Music Bloggers

Call for Book Reviewers and Bloggers

Call for Columnists: Brainy, Artful Generalists, Rejoice!

Call for DVD Critics and TV Bloggers

Pop Past – It's 'Past', But It's Never 'Over'

Ratings

10 - The Best of the Best

9 - Very Nearly Perfect

8 - Excellent

7 - Damn Good

6 - Good

5 - Average

4 - Unexceptional

3 - Weak

2 - Seriously Flawed

1 - Terrible

© 1999-2012 PopMatters.com. All rights reserved.
PopMatters.com™ and PopMatters™ are trademarks
of PopMatters Media, Inc.

PopMatters is wholly independently owned and operated.
PopMatters is a member of BUZZMEDIA Music, MOG and Guardian Select.

About|Submissions|Advertising|Staff|Book Series|Privacy Policy