Album Notes

Shawn is the son of the late, great Texas Tornado, Doug Sahm . Shawn has been
performing since his early teens either with his own band or with his father's. In
addition, Shawn has also performed with the Doug "Cosmo" Clifford (Creedence
Clearwater Revival), Roy Head Texas Tornados, Sir Douglas Quintet.
And Shawn has now reunited all the surviving members of the Texas Tornados and is now out on tour.
Check Out Shawn at:
www.facebook.com/shawnsahmmusic
www.myspace.com/shawnsahm
www.shawnsahm.com
www.thetexastornados.com
From the moment he sat on the knee of his father Doug Sahm on the cover of Rolling
Stone in 1968, there was never a question as to what Shawn’s path in life would be: it’s
always been on the road. And after his father passed away in 1999, Shawn wasn’t
about to slow down. Having spent the better part of the last six years overseeing the
estate and various projects, he returned to his first musical love: the amalgam of rock &
roll and across-the-border rhythms that define the Tex-Mex sound. “The idea was to
take the influences, the sound, the real stuff, what’s in your heart and in your soul,”
Shawn enthuses. “That music is a part of me. What makes the band unique is that we
are doing music for the love of it. It’s not the ‘in’ thing or the popular thing, it’s
something I’ll be doing one way or another for the rest of my life. "Even when I was
young playing in rock bands, I was always playing with Dad and writing songs.”