LOS SOUPERMEN – A Texmex Tribute to Doug Sahm & The Texas Tornados

Inspired by the lilting mariachi tones of a couple Ward Hayden & the Outliers nee Girls, Guns and Glory originals, this tribute to Doug Sahm and the Texas Tornados and a few other outlaws reminds of how derivative Texmex music was of the british invasion beat. Coming as contemporaries of the Beatles, Sir Douglas and the Quintet were reputedly the hazy vision of popular music seen through several cases of MD 20-20 in a Texas motel room by producer Heuy Meaux and quickly hit the charts in 1966 with She’s About a Mover amidst the parallel success of the one-hit texmex wonder 96 Tears. The sound came to rest in San Antonio .

So now the answer to the question: “Anybody Going to San Antone” is “Everybody’s Going”.  We’ll be filling the Met with the San Antonio sound and along with the rhythms than animated the 60s there is plenty of Texas to go round with the outlaw country sounds of Hank, Merle, Willie blended in.  Featuring the incomparable vocals of Ward Hayden, and a krewe of the most talented contemporary Boston outlaws with Rory Macleod on bass who arranged this project and himself played behind Doug Sahm in Austin when that ‘Cosmic Cowboy’ hopped on stage with virtually every band.

With homage to San Antonio’s Los Super Seven, the original ad hoc keepers of the Sahm sound, we swerved in our naming convention Los Soupermen, to announce the super group character of this seasonal outing and to embrace the culinary distinction of our first locus in Westerly, RI, soupy sausage!