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Texas musician Doug Sahm remembered at SXSW
AUSTIN, Texas (Billboard) – With a tribute album arriving Tuesday (March 24), Tex-Mex musician Doug Sahm, who died in 1999, was the subject of two homages this week at the South by Southwest music festival and conference. A set by the Texas Tornados, one of the bands he helped to found, highlighted a two-hour show on Thursday night at the Austin club Antone's. The show featured several of the artists who contributed tracks to Vanguard's "Keep Your Soul: a Tribute to Doug Sahm," which commemorates the Texas music legend, who came to fame leading the Sir Douglas Quintet in the 1960s and '70s. Led by Sahm's son Shawn, the Tornados' portion of the concert reunited surviving band members Augie Meyers and Flaco Jiminez for a six-song romp. They played lively versions of "Who Were You Thinking Of?," "San Antone," Meyers' "(Hey Baby) Que Paso," a nod to the late Freddy Fender with a hot rendition of "Wasted Days and Wasted Nights" (sung by Nunie Rubio) and Sahm's best-known hits, "She's About a Mover" and "Mendocino."

Shawn Sahm also told the crowd that he, Meyers and Jimenez have recorded a new Tornados album -- the group's first studio set since 1996's "4 Aces," which will include tracks with Freddy Fender recorded before his death in 2006. A documentary about Sahm is in the works as well. The Thursday night tribute also featured performances by Jimmie Vaughan, the Gourds, Dave Alvin, and Sarah Borges & the Broken Singles, while Jake Andrews fronted a version of "Glad for Your Sake" that featured "Keep Your Soul" co-producer Bill Bentley on drums. Doug Sahm, who was saluted as "the father of Americana music," was also honored at the Austin Music Awards on Wednesday night with a performance that featured "She's About a Mover" and Alejandro Escovedo re-creating his version of "Too Little Too Late" from the "Keep Your Soul" album. Other artists who recorded songs for the tribute compilation include Los Lobos, Delbert McClinton, Charlie Sexton, Little Willie G, Terry Allen and Joe "King" Carrasco in collaboration with the Texas Tornados.