Texas Tornados is a Tejano band. Its music is a fusion of rock, country and various Mexican styles. The initial combination of musicians of the Texas Tornados happened almost by chance at a concert performance of mutual acquaintances. After Freddy Fender, Flaco Jiménez, Augie Meyers, and Doug Sahm performed in front of a San Francisco audience, they all knew the genuine bond they felt in their music could probably be taken to another level. After they initially performed as the Tex-Mex Revue, they took the title Texas Tornados, after Sahm’s song and album of that name. (More from Wikipedia)
Frontman Doug Sahm of the Sir Douglas Quintet would become one of the best known practitioners of Texas popular music of all types, including Mexican-American musical forms like Tejano.
Doug Sahm was a founding member of Texas Tornados (named after one of his songs, “Texas Tornado”) that is a sort of Tejano “super group”. The band included Freddy Fender, who is at least as well known as Sahm due to his hit songs “Wasted Days and Wasted Nights” and “Before the Next Teardrop Falls”. Rounding out the group were Augie Meyers, Sahm’s bandmate in the Sir Douglas Quintet; and Flaco Jiménez, an accordion player whose father Santiago Jiménez, Sr. helped pioneer another type of Hispanic music, conjunto. Their 1990 self-titled debut album, Texas Tornados was released in both English and Spanish language versions.
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