Sir Douglas Quintet?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RkhlPB6O6Q

One of the few things to love about More American Graffiti is how Sahm's performance as bandleader doing two gigs in one night--the first at a Ballroom doing Bo Diddley by way of The Yardbirds, the other playing fiddle on Country covers in a Saloon--is a pretty accurate picture of his life from say, 1968 til the day he died.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22E1ToIe42Y

lol otm. xp

I'm sure someone has called attention to this album on ILM--Doug Sahm produced, so I'll post here.

http://cdn.ticketfly.com/i/00/01/65/97/07-og.jpg

I'd never even heard of them until they showed up in a Marcus column reprinted on GreilMarcus.net. The song he writes about, "I Know You Know," is indeed excellent, so I ordered a reissued CD off Amazon (cheap). At least half of it is almost as good, and there's one song, "I Don't Want to Be Seen with You," I like even more. (Great title--a somewhat loftier Ramones title.) Here's another good one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_s2P6OTU6Ao

One of the two bluesy rock songs is lousy, the other's not bad. The rest of it, highly recommended--after a couple of listens in the car, better than a number of more famous cult albums from the same era, I'd say (came out in 1970).

That's a good track up 'ere.

I have that CD! Terrific album. Louie Ortega was later in the Quintet, who recorded some of his songs.

I've been trying to think of good comparisons for all their great slow and mid-tempo songs...Somewhere in the vicinity of Buffalo Springfield or Moby Grape? Or these obscure early-'70s country-pop bands I was discovering when I used to download like crazy: Mason Proffit, Charley D, Cowboy, etc. Here's a Spotify link that may or may not get you to "I Don't Want to Be Seen with You" (not on YouTube):

http://play.spotify.com/album/74wEE6sKoTAtcpinMtVApZ

https://scontent-dft4-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/21105703_828997327273598_1088430896528179792_n.jpg?oh=d653530749918cafc210c7d62d3e220b&oe=5A204330

is that real? wow.

Wow

That's why they re-located to Frisco (and Amsterdam?), I seem to semi-recall (mention of such motorvation in 70s or early 80s Creem)

Yeah, they moved to Frisco not long afterwards directly because of that bust. Ironically, a similar incident happened in San Antonio when he moved back in the early '70s.

I'm sure Arpaio etc. were watching his return. Wise to leave in the first instance, considering for instance the asylum alternative fate of busted Roky, and more typically re that era, "There are people still serving prison time in Texas for being busted for like a seed in the 60s"---John Belushi, ca. 1980 (I knew a guy this happened to).

SDQ Meets MTV:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWjKzezyesg

i mean why not just cover Keep Searchin' ?

Wow, it's wild to see an ILM thread about a local band! I thought for sure only we knew about them; e.g., I was pretty sure no where else did the "oldies" radio stations ever play "She's About a Mover" or "Mendocino", two songs I definitely remember listening to as a young child in the '80s via "oldies" radio (I tended to stick with whatever types of music my parents listened to until I was around 10 years old). But... y'all love the Sir Douglas Quintet, huh? I... don't mind them, actually. Even though they're one of the acts credited for creating the most god-awful "musical" "genre" of Tejano, except unlike the Tejano acts what they recorded could actually be construed as "music".

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Douglas_Quintet

That’s German Wikipedia obviously, but I heard these songs played as golden oldies on Dutch radio as well. “Mendocino” especially was a big hit in many European countries.

coming across the Complete Mercury Masters album (via a Terry Allen border music spotify playlist) and thinking I haven't been this bowled over by a compilation of a band I've never heard before since plunking down cash for that Clean Anthology when it came out

album cover is cute as hell too, I mean look at this

https://i.imgur.com/2KxoIrX.jpg

Based off the illustration on the cover of 1+1+1=4

https://img.discogs.com/wvTpDntS7t2vua9xis7G1_I08bs=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-2759459-1299793411.jpeg.jpg

Which opened out into this:

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/RkqjqUN9AjZXdCo4abCxC_w3XrlDDI2Uz44ZWd5kIcaQetNiEbtAQfVAmthBlQttvEtJqRgT3EHfJzdkt6GyQyRmgzx0ULP-D6vI

hot damn! that's a cover. these fellas are AOK with me

sir douglas quintet the low-key GOAT american rock band

― J. Sam, Friday, March 6, 2015 10:50 AM (six years ago) bookmarkflaglink

I stand by this. Marathoning the Complete Mercury Masters box today, and this is about as much fun as you can have on record

I recently rolled the dice on what looked like a rough vinyl copy of Doug Saldana on eBay (only payed around $10 w/shipping vs. $25+ 'nicer' copies go for). It turned out fine, maybe a little hissy, but a killer LP all the same.

However, the jacket has a full seam split on top, with a partial on the bottom, which seems kind of common with this album, even on 'nicer' copies. Phillips obviously not spending a lot on packaging the SDQ by then.

I imagine maybe that the singles comp Sundazed put out didn't sell well enough to justify further reissues, but it's sad that you can't just walk into a good record store and pick up shiny presses of those Smash/Phillips/Mercury SDQ albums, which are way better than a lot of the 60s-70s obscure Rock stuff typically unearthed and enthused over.

From blogged ballot comments in 2019. when I shoulda copied them to this thread:

Sir Douglas Quintet: The Complete Mercury Masters: Digital-only re-reissue of the CD box, so no booklet, but no collector's prices, either. Still a reeling, chugging, loose and tight, amazing body of work, wobblers and all. Almost all of it is finally on legit import CDs, (that's how long it's been since orig. releases), ones and doubles and maybe some triples, with several Acacia reissues breadcrumbing stray tracks astutely gleaned by Paul Nelson for Rough Edges (1973), the scratchy bargain bin baby which I snapped up donkey's years ago, and have never seen even as a bootleg CD---but they're allll here, together again.
Ones I've never heard before incl. 7" edits, maybe audibly a little more loosely tight than the LP versions, if it's not the power of suggestion, and the Spanish-language EP I've heard tell of: re-recordings, or maybe remixes, with somebody else singing (I read somewhere that Sahm refused to learn the lingo). I miss the yearning drive and surety of Doug, finding his way through the low-budget sonics, but the other guys put their backs in, and "Nuevo Laredo," with hammering piano x drums, is a memorable ride on a bumpy road, in the back of a pick-up road (hold on, we're goin' to town). Also this version of "It Didn't Even Bring Me Down," with a re-title that might translate as "It's the Moon's Fault." Got some learning of my own to do.
We also get Sahm or SDQ-produced tracks of Roy Head and Junior Parker, backed by Southwestern R&B ensembles--not quite combos, in my mind, considering the big, never intrusive horn sound, though it may be generated by just two or three players, in such robust clarity. Parker seems a little subtle or tentative or something at times, but "Your Bag is Bringin' Me Down" and "Movin' Out" work, and Head (whose stash also incl. "Bag") throws himself right in there from the beginning (must find that folder of hot Head tracks sent by Edd Hurt). Speaking of hot, there are a couple of Sahmesque guitar solos, on "Nuevo Laredo" and "Movin' Out."
get it here https://www.amazon.com/Complete-Mercury-Masters-Douglas-Quintet/dp/B08CB2CTNZ/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=sir+douglas+quintet+the+complete+mercury&qid=1626474385&s=dmusic&sr=1-1

The Amazon link for that has changed since 2019, and if this one doesn't work by the time you see it, o people of the future, look in their Digital Music for the current connection, as I just now did (and updated it on blog). Hate to do Amazon a favor, but I haven't seen the set elsewhere (not that I've looked since 2019)

I have the physical edition, and you're not missing too much notes-wise: 36 or so page booklet, with a fairly basic essay by Scott Schneider, track info mostly taken directly from the original album jackets, and a nice bunch of pictures.

https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2021/11/23/happy-thanksgiving-doug-sahm-and-friends-austin-tx-1972-7/

Thanks! Mighty tasty.

The April Vinyl Me Please exclusive pressing (Country Edition) is Groover's Paradise.

https://www.vinylmeplease.com/products/doug-sahm-groovers-paradise?