Doug Sahm : The Best of Doug Sahm and the Sir Douglas Quintet
Genre: Tex-Mex/ Psychedelic Rock	Dates: 1968-1975

Take a kid raised on the rhythm 'n' rock 'n' country of south Texas, drop him onto Haight Ashbury in San Francisco in the middle of the Summer of Love, and you get a special sui generis soul like Doug Sahm. Sahm's warm vocals and chameleonic guitar, aided by Augie Meyer's Farfisa (out of "96 Tears" and "Double Shot of My Baby's Love") and a Mexico-tinged horn section, could handle any material—from shuffle blues to straight country and western to jazzy R&B to trippy, stoned hippie ballads—and deliver it as naturally and accessibly as if your next door neighbor had been playing it on his front porch for years. Highlights: their searching cover of Freddy Fender's "Wasted Days and Wasted Nights"; the moving simplicity of "Be Real"; the definitive Tex-Mex roll of "Mendocino" and "Nuevo Laredo"; and the near-irresistible call of "Baby, Let's Go to Mexico."

Playlist: 1. Mendocino 2. Sunday Sunny Mill Valley Grove Day 3. Texas Me 4. I'm Glad For Your Sake (But I'm Sorry For Mine) 5. You Never Get Too Big And You Sure Don't Get To Heavy, That You Don't Have To Stop And Pay Some Dues Sometime 6. Song Of Everything 7. Catch The Man On The Rise 8. At The Crossroads 9. Nuevo Laredo 10. In The Dark 11. I Wanna Be Your Mama Again 12. I Don't Want To Go Home 13. Be Real 14. Papa Ain't Salty 15. Gypsy, The 16. Wasted Days And Wasted Nights 17. Michozcan 18. Westside Blues Again 19. San Antone, (Is Anybody Going To) 20. Texas Tornado 21. Baby, Let's Go To Mexico 22. I'm Not That Kat Anymore

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