BIOGRAPHY
Doug Sahm was born in San Antonio in 1941, a musical prodigy who sang on the radio at age five and reportedly performed alongside an ailing Hank Williams before turning down an invitation to the Grand Ole Opry to finish school. He rose to prominence leading the Sir Douglas Quintet, a band that blended rhythm-and-blues, country, rock and conjunto into the "West Side Sound," and later launched a solo career on Atlantic Records with 1973's Doug Sahm and Band, featuring Bob Dylan, Dr. John and Flaco Jimenez. In 1989 Sahm co-founded the Texas Tornados with Freddy Fender, Augie Meyers and Flaco Jimenez, a self-described "supergroup of Texas legends" whose debut reached the country charts and won a Grammy. Sahm died of a heart attack in a Taos, New Mexico, motel room in November 1999.