Keep Your Soul: A Tribute to Doug Sahm (CD, Mar-2009, Vanguard)

Album Features
UPC:	015707990028
Format:	CD
Release Year:	2009
Record Label:	Vanguard
Genre:	Rock & Pop, Tribute Albums

Track Listing
1. She's About a Mover
2. And It Didn't Even Bring Me Down
3. Too Little Too Late
4. You Was For Real
5. Dynamite Woman
6. Ta Bueno Compadre [It's Ok Friend] - (featuring West Side Horns)
7. Texas Me - Delbert McClinton
8. I'm Not That Kat Anymore
9. Why, Why, Why
10. You're Doin' It Too Hard - Charlie Sexton
11. Nuevo Laredo
12. Be Real
13. Adios Mexico - Texas Tornados
14. Mendocino - Shawn Sahm

Details
Contributing Artists:	West Side Horns
Distributor:	Welk
Recording Type:	Studio
Recording Mode:	Stereo
SPAR Code:	n/a

Album Notes
Tributee: Doug Sahm.Liner Note Authors: David Katznelson; Bill Bentley.Photographers: Baron Wolman; Scott Newton.Despite a couple of hits (1965's "She's About A Mover" and 1969's "Mendocino"), the Sir Douglas Quintet's Doug Sahm remained something of a cult favorite as of the release of 2009's KEEP YOUR SOUL: A TRIBUTE TO DOUG SAHM. Fittingly--since Sahm was both the consummate musician's musician and a master of Texas rock, country, blues, and tex-mex--the album finds artists (most of them Texan) from across the genre spectrum covering tracks by the Lone Star god. From blues stalwarts like Jimmy Vaughan ("Why, Why, Why") to former Afghan Whig Greg Dulli ("You Was For Real"), the collection mirrors the breadth of a talent producer Jerry Wexler called "the most gifted, the most versatile" he had ever worked with. The versions that keep the most faithful to Sahm's gleefully loose and rhythmic border rock like Delbert McClinton's reading of "Texas Me" or the Gourds' "Nuevo Laredo" are the stand-outs here--along with the version of "Mendocino" by Sahm's son Shawn, who sounds scarily like his dad.

Editorial Reviews
Sahm's forever groovy mastery of counter-culture vernacular is illustrated by Los Lobos' rendition of 'It Didn't Even Bring Me Down'...
Billboard

[I]t is one memorable celebration as the cream of the Lone Star State's music scene, including Alejandro Escovedo, Dave Alvin, Delbert McClinton, and Jimmy Vaughn, step up to honor one of their own.
Dirty Linen