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SIR DOUG AND THE GENUINE TEXAS COSMIC GROOVE

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URING the campaign to reissue Joe Nick Patoski’s 2005 documentary about Doug Sahm, the project was sold on the basis that the San Antonio-born musician was an unsung hero of Texas music, which is curious given the calibre of musicians who testify tohistalent. ThereisBobDylan, an early supporter of Sahm’s Texan “British Invasion” group The Sir Douglas Quintet who also guested on 1973’s , recorded at Jerry Wexler’s behest for the progressive country arm of Atlantic Records.] was incapable of following anyone else’s plan for him,” Tweedy says.

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