What's your favorite Doug Sahm song? I'm a sucker for Stoned Faces Don't Lie and Texas Me. After all these years, I still love Mendocino. I turn it up every time it's on the radio. Just two chords and nonsense lyrics. I absolutely love it. What's your favorite?

@anfrankogezamartincic1161

3 жыл бұрын

There are many, he was a master of grest melody/lyrics,so,if i have to choose only one,then it's GIVE BACK THE KEY OF MY HEART,i heard it first on UNCLE TUPELO tape that a friend made to me

@otisgibbs

3 жыл бұрын

@@anfrankogezamartincic1161 Excellent choice!

@castanzes

3 жыл бұрын

@@anfrankogezamartincic1161 I also first heard it on an Uncle Tupelo record. Such a great song!!

@7550375503

3 жыл бұрын

'Baby Be Real'.

@bigearl33

3 жыл бұрын

"Tennessee Blues" and "Juan Mendoza" are two of my favs. , I got to see him play three times (all in the DC area)

♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️ thanks for keeping dad's music alive ☺️

@otisgibbs

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the kind words and much love to ya, Shandon!

@daviswall3319

Жыл бұрын

Right on !

@bethcastagnoli2911

Жыл бұрын

I remember your Dad ♥️. Remember the Alamo!!

Doug Sahm is one of the greatest songwriter/performer of all time. PLAY LOUD

@shandonsahm3343

2 жыл бұрын

True that

I was living in Austin in back in 81. Some friends of mine, the Majewskis, owned Soap Creek Saloon in the outskirts of Austin. My kids went to elementary school with the Majewskis kids and we lived near one another. I recall a couple of Saturday afternoons when Doug, Alvin Crow and members of both bands would gather at the Majewskis for a backyard barbeque. We would drink beer, get lttle stoned, enjoy great food and share stories about the Austin music scene. Great fun.

@otisgibbs

3 жыл бұрын

That's tremendous, Rex! : )

Love me a good Sir Doug story....❤

Texas Me is my favorite Doug Sahm song (;

@otisgibbs

3 жыл бұрын

That's a good one, Mike!

Loved Sir Doug in Cisco Pike. Thank you so much, Otis for your music and letting us hear all of these great stories.

I love Doug sahm and you Songs, mendocino is beautiful, l miss Doug sahm 💔🇨🇱🇩🇪🙏

@shandonsahm3343

2 жыл бұрын

Me Too

I first heard Doug through the Texas Tornados and via the connection with Flaco Jiménez. My favourite song is "Hey Baby Que Paso?" but it's one of many. I have since come to collect and love SDQ and Doug's, Augie's and Freddy's solo albums and more recently Doug's son's band the Tex-Mex Experience. Really enjoying your tapes, thanks Otis!

@otisgibbs

3 жыл бұрын

That's very cool, Jim! I keep thinking I'll see his son's band some time in Austin, but it hasn't happened yet. Since you put the bug in my ear, I'm gonna go listen to Hey Baby Que Paso?. : )

@7550375503

3 жыл бұрын

@@otisgibbs May I suggest lending an ear to: ' Who Were You Thinkin' Of'.

In addition to being a great musician and songwriter, you are the Studs Terkel of alt-country and folk. Great listening.

@otisgibbs

3 жыл бұрын

Haha! I absolutely love Studs Terkel, so that's a huge compliment. Thanks, Andrew! : )

Been hanging out with Doug all weekend. Who always seems to show up just when I need, no matter the weather.

I got to see Doug at Carnegie Hall he opened before Jerry Jeff Walker and he was great! Duck Dunn on bass , I never saw so many cowboy hats in NYC.

"Stone Faces Don't Lie".. But it's hard to pick one!

When I was a student at The University of Texas, myself and several others made a Doc about Alvin Crow. (not sure it ever got finished) One evening we went to a softball game with Alvin and their coach was Doug Sahm. Doug was very cordial and funny. I wish I had some of the footage. I was stoked that we got to meet Sir Douglas. It was around '78.

This podcast introduced me to Doug Sahm's music. Thank you!

@otisgibbs

3 жыл бұрын

Glad to hear it, David!

Great story. I'm a huge Doug Sahm fan. Saw him a bunch in Los Angeles and Austin. That story sounds accurate just from the vibe you'd get from Doug if you welcomed yourself back into the dressing room at a gig. He was a cat in a groove, and his stock was high in the music scene in a number of different places but Austin worshipped him. BTW, Lloyd Maines, Natalie "Dixie Chick" Maines dad, played pedal steel for Doug in the height of good times of the 60's and 70's and is another source of good stories. Too many songs that I Love to name just one favorite, but a real sleeper on an almost unknown album is One Way Crash Course Love Affair. Listen to it!! It's on KZread.

Those songs are all great. I always liked the funk of “I’m not that Kat anymore” and “Groovers Paradise” as well. Thanks Otis. Always great to hear from you.

@otisgibbs

3 жыл бұрын

These are both great choices! : )

There's those couch kitties! I always think of townes van zandt and doug hanging out together. Both great musicians and colorful characters

@otisgibbs

3 жыл бұрын

Hell yeah! : )

She’s About A Mover started it all for me as a kid. My fav. Loving all of these video stories yer posting 🤠

@otisgibbs

3 жыл бұрын

Thank ya kindly, Jay!

@jaylongino8225

3 жыл бұрын

Dude! Your podcasts are terrific! Loved the Todd Snider one. Just finished episode 2 on SoundCloud. Just 168 to go! 🤠

@otisgibbs

3 жыл бұрын

@@jaylongino8225 Thanks, Jay!

[Is Anybody Going To] San Antone is my favorite although I love all things Doug Sahm. I love that Bob Dylan said Doug was his favorite musician back in the 60's (i think it was 60's)

Larry Browns “Big Bad Love” is one of my favorites. Glad to see a copy on your table. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

@otisgibbs

3 жыл бұрын

I'm glad you dig that one, Jody!

Now here's finally a video I can speak to. I met Doug Sahm in 1991/1992 I believe. I lived in the same house as Speedy Sparks who Doug Sahm was trying to recruit to play in the Texas tornadoes. During the period they were trying to put the band together Doug Sahm and Freddy Fender would come by the house and Flaco Jimenez as well. I had a birthday party that turned into a Texas tornadoes concert. Freddy wasn't there but Flaco and Doug were and Speedy Sparks as well and they played for 30-40 minutes. Pretty awesome birthday party. At the same time Speedy Sparks was trying to take care of Roky Erickson and I got to know him even more than those other guys. He was 100% in another dimension and you had to talk to him as if he were an adolescent. He was a sweet guy though. I once walked out on the porch where he was sitting waiting for Speedy to come out and it started raining just about the same time and he asked me if I had started the rain. Kind of hated to tell him that I didn't. All of this was because I lived at 91 and a half Red river and the owner of the house and the small used car lot behind the house had been an Austin figure for years and speedy Sparks had been playing all over town for a long time so a lot of people came in and out of that house.

He mentions the Cellar Door in Washington. I visited the Cellar Door twice, in 1972, I saw Doc and Merle Watson one time, and the other time I saw John Prine, whose intro act that night was Bonnie Raitt.

Worked Security at a Tornado's show in 91 or so, the show was really good, just seemed like a bunch of buddies just groovin' Doug was perpetual motion all night, the highlight to me was Adios, Mexico which live absolutely tore the paint of the walls.

@otisgibbs

3 жыл бұрын

That sounds like pure magic, Steven! I would love to have been there!

Thanks Otis ... That Was Great !! Jimmy ....

@otisgibbs

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Jimmy!

As a DC area roots musician I always love to hear stories about the local scene in days gone by. Thanks Otis and Mr. Finney!

@otisgibbs

3 жыл бұрын

Y'all have given the world more than your share of great music over the years! : )

thank you otis 🤠 priceless stories

@otisgibbs

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Mario!

Hi Otis, that was great, I really enjoyed it, as ever. The media over here in the UK is deplorable, (mainstream TV and radio), so it's great to load you up on KZread on my TV and listen to this stuff. Thanks for posting and keep them coming! Hope you have a great weekend my friend. Chris

@otisgibbs

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Chris! I appreciate you stopping by. : )

@antoniomanaserian3838

3 жыл бұрын

Love what you do Otis!

@otisgibbs

3 жыл бұрын

@@antoniomanaserian3838 Thank you, Antonio!

Rain dripping” off the brim of my hat…great opening line…great tune! Gotta love silly tunes like guacamole & who were you thinking’ of with Texas tornados. Always remember picture of Doug with Dylan in rolling stone encyclopedia of rock ‘n roll. Funny story- i cut out the section on the stones from local library copy (I was young and didn’t think they’d notice…lol). Got caught and had to pay…I got to keep book & still have it! Recall hearing uncle Tupelo singing give bac the keys to my heart & Doug with the gourds (great great band). Got live recording from Oslo where he calls out Audie for a solo & Augie was not even there…lol

Otis-I do believe this interview posted before I started following you. Doug kind of made me move to Austin. I'd been a music hound and a poor playing guitarist with no talent but plenty of love for quality tunes. The summer I graduated from HS, I came to Austin to see friends. I know Doug's music from SDQ and his solo stuff. We were at a Saturday night show at the original Soap Creek Saloon in July 1974 and not an AC unit in sight. Doug took the stage and had not the entire West Side Horn section but about half of them. I'm 6 to 10 feet from the stage and totally blown away by the Doug Sahm experience. I'd never felt so connected to music as I did that night. We stayed till the house lights came on around 2:30. I moved to Austin a year after that for college. Over the years, I'd probably seen Doug 20-25 times, burned a couple with him but sadly never drank a Big Red soda pop with him. I was at Doug's funeral in SA-the entire AusTex scene was there. I'd lost started the service sitting with Clifford Antone and ended up outside and sat on the drivers side front fender of the hearse. A couple of minutes later I look over at the passenger fender and Dr John has sat his fine self down and we ended up talking about the flowers Dylan and others had sent. A couple of years later I'd been trying to get Clifford Antone to let me run or assist an effort to put out a Doug Sahm box set over dinner one night. Clifford passed a few months after that . Doug passed on November 99-I still listen to him and have tons of vinyl, most all the CDs and a mess of 45s. Doug turned me on to lots of music-Guitar Slim. He was funny talking about sitting on Hank Williams Sr.s lap when he played at the Skyline Club in Austin. Doug was a 7 yr old steel guitar whiz, "Hank stunk of stale whiskey and was all wasted and skinny. My butt hurt from sitting on his bony legs". Doug always hosted the SXSW final event-a baseball tournament. Fun times for sure

Love what you do Otis!

@otisgibbs

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Jack!

Thanks Otis for your gems.

Like always,Otis did it great and interesting again. I started listen to Doug Sam via GUSTAFI, thats Croatian band who used to cover few Dougs songs (Dougs music,their own lyrics in local dialect). They started as a kind of Post punk band (Pere ubu,Talking heads type,nervous & quirky) back in 1980,and turned with years to different barnstomping machine with revolving members and great gigs,3hours of punk rock folk tex-mex. Dougs music was part of it

@otisgibbs

3 жыл бұрын

That's very interesting, Danfranko! I'm gonna have to look them up someday soon. : )

Admittedly,I’m getting too “up in years” and set in my ways to travel around ..looking to sit in with bands,other musicians… but I can’t help but wonder.. and HOPE… that there still exists a network of venues for young musicians to sit in and just jam..!? Have those times passed..? Have musicians and club owners given up the ghost on the freedom of music that was so prevalent in the 70’s..? I pray not..! Thanks,Otis..! And thanks to Pete..!

I'm enjoying checking out your site, Otis. Love your cats too! I have lots of Doug Sahm favorites, but I really like "Rain Rain Rain." I saw Doug play at SXSW one year and saw him holding court in the lobby of the Austin Convention Center, but was too nervous to talk to him. He was gone soon after that. I love hearing stories of the Austin music scene.

@otisgibbs

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Stephen!

One of my fondest memories was in a 96 I met Sir Doug and the great Freddy Fender at a little greeting to meet an autographed session at little bitty club in Nashville when I was 22 and and the only two signatures I have have on my fender

Pete Finney is a musician's musician & a true gentleman (my opinion gleaned for your interview) OG.

❤❤❤

Great audio on these, too. Broadcast quality.

I love Pete & this interview, OG.

Man Otis, these stories are really somethin else. Enjoying the hell outta em'. Thanks! Great cat too

@otisgibbs

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you, Mark and much love to ya!

I'm late to this party, but here's my 2 cents: I discovered Doug Sahm from Uncle Tupelo's last record Anodyne. From that alone I jumped head first into his music. I loved the him on the Texas Tornadoes live at gruene hall. My favorite tune from that record "is anybody going to San antone" Dave Kirby wrote it I believe. Son volt did killer version of it as well. Sahm played with so many people. As a kid, he supposedly played with Hank Williams at one of his last shows. Legendary character. Thanks Otis.

@otisgibbs

3 жыл бұрын

I'm glad you found the channel, Brett! : )

I have more Doug albums than any other artist. I love Cowboy Peyton Place and Border Line. Said hello to him at the Lone Star and later at Dingwalls in London. Always had time for his fans.

Thanks Otis

Love these stories. Please keep em coming!

@otisgibbs

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Pat!

@patfornies776

3 жыл бұрын

@@otisgibbs your KZread channel was my recommendation of the week on our podcast this week.

@otisgibbs

3 жыл бұрын

@@patfornies776 Thanks, Pat!

Doug went to Vancover, because it's too hot in Texas during the summer.

Just loving this channel -- keep em coming

@otisgibbs

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you and will do! : )

thx for this vid! interesting!!

You just can’t live in Texas if you don’t got a lotta soul

@otisgibbs

3 жыл бұрын

Damn straight! ; )

Hey Otis ! Hope all is well with you and Amy. I really enjoyed the story you told about Jerry Reed at an Elvis session, and it got me thinking, could you do a story telling on Roger Miller ? This one with Pete Finney is also a stone groove. Stay well.

@otisgibbs

3 жыл бұрын

I'm sure I will at some point, Steve!

@heidiszabol370

2 жыл бұрын

Doug sahm is wonderful, i love this Songs, i miss Doug sahm 💔🇨🇱🙏🇩🇪

it is so interesting to hear these stories. I think oh Doug Sahm and I think super star who should be pulling in $thousands$ per show but that is not the reality. When did the big paydays for Doug begin if ever? Sureley the Texas Tornados must of made big dollars for Doug.

OK, my question is: Where the heck did you dig up that old Kmart brand tape?? I haven't seen one since the 1970's! LOL

Back when Austin was really cool..!

"Walked into Austin through the front door" super cool interview.

@otisgibbs

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you, Antonio!

I know exactly who that grower was lol 😅.. he's legendary 😅

Love the interview. On an interesting note, Larry Brown was my writing mentor.

@otisgibbs

3 жыл бұрын

That's beautiful, Brian! If you have any Larry Brown anecdotes you'd like to share with us, I'd love to read it! : )

@brianbeattympls

3 жыл бұрын

@@otisgibbs Three quick recollections: 1.) Larry's nickname for me was Ernest. Which he meant because I was young and hungry for success at whatever cost. But it was the era of the Ernest does this or that movies. So I wasn't flattered. 2.) Larry helped me send some of my stories to Barry Hannah, another Oxford, MS writer who was more my hero, even, than Larry. Barry used the SASE I'd sent with the stories to send back his thoughts, but I'm not sure Barry appreciated Larry's generosity with his time. (I say that based on meeting Barry Hannah years later, at a reading at Square Books.) 3.) For my 23rd birthday, Larry got me the drunkest I've ever been.

@otisgibbs

3 жыл бұрын

@@brianbeattympls Haha! That's beautiful, Brian. I appreciate you sharing this with me. : )

@brianbeattympls

3 жыл бұрын

@@otisgibbs Back at ya. I've been really enjoying your story posts. (FWIW, I'm a Hoosier, born and raised: Brazil, Indiana.)

@otisgibbs

3 жыл бұрын

@@brianbeattympls That's great, Brian. I used to go fishing around that area. Probably closer to Linton. That was a long time ago and it feels like a different life. I'm sure you know the feeling.

ok one more broyher otis...i proudly bought nad wear ur hat and you and amys art work....i would def buy imagery photogrpahic or artisticlaly made (by means other than photogrpahy) or both of you and your cat(s)...greta visual!

Hi Otis. I have to tip my hat to you for putting down all of these interviews. Did you really record them on cassettes? And I suppose that you did not anticipate having this KZread channel at the time. So what were you planning to do with them? It is clear that these are tremendously valuable oral histories that xplode in value as the memories that have been recorded diminish in the world of meat. And their value is multiplied again by all the ears that you reach with this KZread platform. I'm not expecting you to answer. More just expressing my wonder, amazement and appreciation to you. Also a huge Doug Sahm fan. Saw him several times at the Back Yard tavern in Austin, Tx.

Now I realized Doug's music is the best stoned music in the world. Bye bye pink Floyd next time I get stoned I'll be listening Doug sahm y the SDQ.

@shandonsahm3343

2 жыл бұрын

♥️🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘

Growing up in SA in the 60s, Doug was a local hero.

@otisgibbs

3 жыл бұрын

I can only imagine, Hap. What a great time to be in San Antonio! : )

Otis, when can we expect an interview with Frankie about the books he's reading. I may have been at one of those Springfield gigs..... I just don't remember for some reason.,...

@otisgibbs

3 жыл бұрын

Frankie's a bit elusive and doesn't do interviews, but ya never know. I'll keep asking him and hopefully one day he'll agree to it. ; )

Doug Sahm! Larry Brown!..Dang

OG: Rolling Stone Magazine needs to be aware of your Channel (they probably already are).

Good interview, but the cats for window dressing is creepy AND weird

brother otis....first let me parapharase dr hunter thompson...i dont advocate drug use in others but its has worked ok for me....and it sure ooks like ur black cat is either a narc or more likely interested in maryjuanas... lol