photos were taken by David Gahr and appear in the liner notes for Doug Sahm & Friends and The Genuine Texas Groover.
We were just friends playing together."
--Doug Sahm
..For Dylan, Sahm's appeal was his fearlessness as a bandleader. He could play conjunto one night, juke joint R&B the next, tackle everything from Bob Wills and Lefty Frizzell to James Brown and Jimi Hendrix, and have it all make sense. Doug took probably a thousand different lineups through a hundred disparate strains of American roots music and stayed in control throughout. And you can be sure that Bob noticed. Where Dylan spent years learning how to front a band ... and is now the wizened stage buddha ... Doug's natural leadership on the bandstand must've been a marvel for the one-time troubadour to behold
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