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(Doug
Sahm)
Doug Sahm & The Texas Tornado
recordings
ABC
DOA-17656 (45-29235-S)(US 45)
Adultery,
Austin-style. Doug Sahm said
he wrote this to reflect the Austin club scene in the mid-'70s. In this song-that-tells-a-story-that-goes-nowhere,
our "protagonist" walks into a bar and the band that happens to
be playing is the one his lover's husband, the steel guitar player, is
in. The song then curiously
flashes back to when our lovers first met, and she says she's in love with
a steel guitar playing man. We
are only left to imagine the soap opera in which they live. As you would imagine, there is more
than enough steel guitar in this, as well as a fiddle solo, and it is
possible that Doug Sahm played them, as he was a virtuoso at both. The melody bears more than a
passing resemblance to Patsy Cline's "Shoes". Fellow Texas Tornado Freddy Fender
covered this on his Rancho Grande
album: It also appears on The Best Of Freddy Fender - Tell It Like
It Is: Best Of Crazy Cajun
Recordings and Freddy
Fender: Greatest Hits. Other cover versions were done by
Cornell Hurd on his 2001 release A
Stagecoach Named Desire, Eugene Chadbourne a year later on Texas Sessions, Chapter 2, and as
recently as 2006 by the bar band Soconomo. It originally appeared on The Texas Tornados' 1976
release, Texas Rock For Country
Rollers, and is featured on the compilations No Depression: What It
Sounds Like, Vol. 1, and Doug Sahm's posthumous release, The Return Of Wayne Douglas.
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