The Sir Douglas Quintet News

If you lost $47 in cash, bound up in a rubber band at the Fais Do Stage during the Texas Tornados' set at the New Orleans Jazz Fest today, Augie Myers has it.

Sunny Ozuna, Arturo "Sauce" Gonzalez, Rene Ornelas , Augie Meyers and Jesse "Chucho" Perales shared their memories Wednesday, ranging from remembering Clark's diminutive size to praising his down-to-earth nature and eye for talent.

Abie Epstein checks out some of his record labels on display at the American Sabor at Museo Alameda in 2009.

Arguably the greatest and most influential Tex-Mex group ever, the Sir Douglas Quintet epitomized Texas' reputation as a fertile roots music melting pot and established the career of Tex-Mex cult legend Doug Sahm.

Plan A: Austin, Texas, is fertile ground for all styles of music, but there's always been a strain of psycheledic-sounding garage rock running through the place, from the Sir Douglas Quintet in the '60s through to the awesome Black Angels of today.