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Doug Sahm is a Blues and Country act. Their sound grew out of Augie Meyers, Roky Erickson, Dr. John, Flaco Jiménez and Freddy Fender. Those roots explain a lot about how Doug Sahm arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Rodney Crowell, Commander Cody And His Lost Planet Airmen, Delbert McClinton, Asleep at the Wheel and John Hartford, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Flaco Jiménez, Uncle Tupelo, The Bottle Rockets, Los Lobos and Alejandro Escovedo, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 34 connections around Doug Sahm, reaching back through Augie Meyers and forward to Flaco Jiménez. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Doug Sahm connections
Doug Sahm grew out of Augie Meyers, Roky Erickson, Dr. John and Flaco Jiménez, shares an orbit with Rodney Crowell, Commander Cody And His Lost Planet Airmen, Delbert McClinton and Asleep at the Wheel, went on to shape Flaco Jiménez, Uncle Tupelo, The Bottle Rockets and Los Lobos. 34 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
Who influenced Doug Sahm
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