Keyboardist who was one of the founding members of The
Sir Douglas Quintet, and later, The Texas Tornados.Meyers was born with polio and for
whatever reason his grandparents tied one end of a rope around one of his
legs, and the other end to a piano.Unable to tear himself away from the piano, literally, he learned
how to play, although he would eventually become more enamoured of the handheld,
non-rope-tied, piano-key accordion, and most notably, the Vox Continental organ,
with which he would craft his signature sound.In addition to his work with the
aforementioned groups, he has been a sought-after session musician, sitting
in with Bob Dylan, who waxes rhapsodic about him, on the albums Time Out of Mind and Love and Theft.He also contributed his talents to
John Hammond's Tom Waits tribute, Wicked
Grin.Meyers has released
several solo albums, including Blame
It On Love, which his son Clay engineered and produced, and his most
recent release, My Freeholies Ain't
Free Anymore.On 2nd
May 2007, he performed at Ponderosa No. 6 in New Orleans.His latest project involved
roots-rock singer-songwriter Jeffrey Halford.Meyers runs three record companies,
Superbeet Records, The Texas Re-Cord Company, and White Boy Records, from
his home base in Bulverde, Texas.
Doug Sahm
& The Texas Tornados recordings
Cowboy Peyton
Place (Doug Sahm)
I Love The Way
You Love (The Way I Love You) (Atwood Allen)
