Doug Sahm - My girl Josephine (live) video free download

The song, sometimes known as "Hello Josephine", originated with Fats Domino in 1960. Doug turns up the speed dial considerably but manages not to lose the New Orleans flavour.

The album "The Last Real Texas Blues Band featuring Doug Sahm" was effectively a belated follow-up to 1989's "Juke Box Music" even though it came out five years later. Although the initial impression you might have gotten was that of a blues album, in fact the proportion of songs that you could call straight blues differs little between the two albums, for example there's a Guitar Slim and a Bobby Bland track on each and Doug even revisits a couple of the songs from the first set. The source of songs this time around is still mainly the black R&B sector in the fifties with the occasional excursion outside that date range. The musicians are assembled into a big band with arrangements from Doug himself. Composition of the band does vary from song to song but many of the performers are familiar from the earlier album.

Musicians who appear, include:

Doug Sahm - Vocals, Piano & Guitar

Denny Freeman - Guitar

Mel Brown - Piano & Hammond B-3

Louis Terrazas - Bass

George Rains - Drums

Rocky Morales - Tenor Sax

Louis Bustos - Tenor Sax

Charlie McBurney - Trumpet

Mark "Kaz" Kazan off - Baritone Sax

Sauce Gonzales - Hammond B-3

Derek O'Brien - Guitar

Jack Barber - Bass & Background Vocals

Al Gomez - Trumpet

Jon Blondell - Trombone

Production is from Doug Sahm and Derek O'Brien with Clifford Antone as Executive Producer.

A number of the tracks were recorded live at Antone's nightclub in Austin, Texas. However the producers have done an excellent job and there's little difference in sound between the live and studio tracks.

As a final note I believe that it's still possible to purchase the two albums as a "two-fer".