Funky Crimes - Life Is a Gamble

Preacher - Life Is a Gamble

Doug Sahm - High School Greaser

 
Doug Sahm & The Markays  -  Why Why Why

If you ever want to immerse yourself in some of Sahm's most formative early rock & roll efforts, you should definitely make it a point to check out the CD San Antonio Rock (Norton), which shines the spotlight on his hard to track down 45s cut between the years '57 and '61.

Andrew Brown's illuminating liner notes set the stage for the smouldering Why, Why, Why, a San Antonio favorite and Doug's big breakout local hit:  "....Doug (now a senior in high school) recorded Why, Why, Why at Texas Sound Studios in early 1960 with the great tenor saxophonist Rocky Morales and his band, the Mar-Kays.

Why, Why, Why was the first big hit, Doug told Deron Bissett.  "Funky record, I love it.  It was goin' up the charts when school was out.  It bugged me 'cause then I couldn't go to school to say, 'Hey look at me, boy....cruise around the drive-in and say 'Hey, I got a hit.  What are you doing?' "

It's PAGAN WEEKEND @ The Fool's Paradise Twin

 

SEE PAGAN RITUALS !!

THRILL TO FORBIDDEN LUST !!

SUSPEND DISBELIEF !!!

THIS WEEKEND !

FIRST...

His Ancient Fingers Reached For Young Flesh !!

Parchment Love & Tannis Root Tea !!

Beware The Wrath Of Im-Ho-Tep !!

Boris Karloff

Zita Johann

in

THE MUMMY

(1932, dir. Karl Freund)

THEN... 

Battling Twin Sisters !! Good vs. Evil !!

Beware The Volcano God !!

Worship The Cobra !!

Maria Montez

Jon Hall

& 

Sabu !

in

COBRA WOMAN

(1944, dir. Robert Siodmak)

 COBRA WOMAN THEATRICAL TRAILER

FULL SERVICE SNACK BAR

featuring

Tasty Corndogs ! Refreshing Beverages ! Savory BBQ !

and 

- for this engagement only -

THE RETURN OF THE PUU-PUU PLATTER !

 

*No Outside Food Or Drink*

PROGRAM BEGINS AT DUSK
ONLY THOSE OVER 17 ADMITTED • LEGIBLE PROOF OF AGE REQUIRED 

  

THE FOOL'S PARADISE TWIN ACCEPTS

JAMES BROWN BLACK & BROWN STAMPS

Sir Douglas Quintet: Michoacan

Since Greg G sent Doug south of the border in an earlier post today, I thought this was an appropriate time to take another excursion down there, this time in the form of a single-only song from the Kris Kristofferson film Cisco Pike, "Michoacan".

I guess that working with the Crazy Cajun Huey P. Meaux wasn't quite enough crazy for Sahm, because "Michoacan" was co-written by the king of crazy, Kim Fowley.

Sir Doug actually appeared in Cisco Pike, which features a PRIMO cast of 70s performers, from Karen Black to Harry Dean Stanton to Antonio Fargas, and is almost sure to be playing at a Fool's Paradise double feature near you in the near future.  As a teaser, here's Doug's scene (about three minutes in), talking about how much he hates complicated California psychedelic music and prefers to keep it simple.  He also, unsurprisingly, needs some weed.

The song itself is such a crazy, happy goofed up bounce, and the scene in the studio is so positively loco, that for a while the word "Michoacan", divorced from any geographical context or even an upper case letter, became a code adjective among me and my friends for a messed up but kind of awesome situation, as in: "That party last night was pretty michoacan." This has of course taken on darker meanings since Michoacan became one of the central spots of south-of-the-border drug cartel violence. Surprised this number has not made it into "Breaking Bad". 

Speaking of pretty michoacan, check out this photo of Doug Sahm, Steven T. (aka Venus of Venus and the Razor Blades), Question Mark, and Kim Fowley.  If that's not the essence of michoacan, I dunno what is.

Next stop Nuevo Laredo?

MICHOACAN

Raise a glass of Alligator Wine!!!

Happy Birthday Screamin' Jay Hawkins!
There was TRULY something wrong with you!

Adios Mexico

Sir Douglas Quintet  -  Adios Mexico

Look, I know musical taste is something that's inherently subjective, but I defy you not to love this song.

Kitty Wells, R.I.P.

Kitty Wells  -  Jesus Loved The Devil Out Of Me 

Image borrowed from CarlaCarlaCarlaCarla's flickr stream.

Tassel Twirler Tuesday

Chop_Stick_Blues 

R.I.P. Kitty Wells

The Queen

Kitty Wells - My Big Truck Drivin' Man

Nice piece by Laura Cantrell

Doug Sahm - I'll Be There

Sir Douglas Band  -  I'll Be There

Doug tips his cap to one of the all-time Texas greats, Ray Price....

Photo: Huey Meaux and Doug Sahm in the studio.

Funky Crimes - Coconut Brown

J.C. Davis - Coconut Brown

Wayne Douglas aka Doug Sahm

Wayne Douglas - Be Real 

Released under a half-hearted pseudonym (he inverted his first & middle names), Be Real is an interesting gem from the Doug Sahm archives.   Sahm recorded it in Nashville with some Music City studio aces and it came out on Mercury, which was handling Doug at the time.  Unfortunately the record went nowhere but it's solid Texas honky-tonk shuffle that's sure to please any hard country fan.